The correct identification of this bust as a portrait of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius (r. 161 – 180 CE) was first proposed by Johann Gottfried Lipsius in 1798 in his description of the Dresden Antiquities Gallery: “Many connoisseurs have, however, preferred to see this beautiful head, with its candid, good-natured face, as Marcus Aurelius, and we are not averse to endorsing this opinion, which has much to commend it.”
Further Media
- Material & Technique
- Marble
- Dimenions
- H: 70,0 cm, B: 62,0 cm, T: 34,0 cm
- Museum
- Skulpturensammlung
- Location & Dating
- c. 170/180 CE
- Inventory number
- Hm 386