  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  This portrait of Rome's first emperor is an idealized, youthful image, which harks back to the representation of athletes and heroes of fifth-century BCE Greece. It follows the portrait well known from a marble statue of Augustus, discovered in the villa of Augustus's wife Livia outside of Rome. That handsome likeness was the source of Inspiration for hundreds of portraits of the emperor all over the expanding Roman Empire. The statue may have served as the cult figure in a temple to the deified emperor, or stood in a public or private place of honor.
  
  
  Title
  Head of Emperor Augustus
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1st century CE
  
  Artist
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  Life Dates
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  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  Roman
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Marble
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 28 1/4 &Atilde;&#151; 11 5/8 &Atilde;&#151; 12 5/8 inches (71.8 &Atilde;&#151; 29.5 &Atilde;&#151; 32.1 cm)
  Overall (head): 19 1/8 &Atilde;&#151; 11 5/8 &Atilde;&#151; 11 1/16 inches (48.6 &Atilde;&#151; 29.5 &Atilde;&#151; 28.1 cm)
  Mount (base): 9 &Atilde;&#151; 10 3/8 inches (22.9 &Atilde;&#151; 26.4 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Sculpture
  
  
  Department
  Greco-Roman and Ancient European
  
  
  Credit
  Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James S. Holden
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  24.101
  
  
  Copyright
  Public Domain
  
  
  
