The Lansdowne Bust of Athena of Velletri

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The Lansdowne Bust of Athena of Velletri

Italy, Rome, Roman, 2nd-century copy after a Greek original of circa 430–420 B.C. by Kresilas
Sculpture
Marble
including plate with base: 43 × 33 × 23 in. (109.22 × 83.82 × 58.42 cm) Plate (with base): 6 1/2 in. (16.51 cm) Other (chin to peak of helmet): 24 in. (60.96 cm)
William Randolph Hearst Collection (49.23.1)
Greek, Roman and Etruscan Art
Not currently on public view

Bibliography

  • Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.
  • Cohen, Beth. "Perikles' Portrait and the Riace Bronzes: New Evidence for 'Schinocephaly'." Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 60, no.4 (1991): 465-502.
  • Gifts on the Occasion of LACMA's 50th Anniversary. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2015.
  • Cohen, Beth. "Perikles' Portrait and the Riace Bronzes: New Evidence for 'Schinocephaly'." Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 60, no.4 (1991): 465-502.
  • Levkoff, Mary L., ed. Hearst the collector. Exh. Cat. New York: Abrams and Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2008.

  • Angelicoussis, Elizabeth. Reconstructing the Lansdowne Collection of Classical Marbles. Munich: Hirmer, 2017.

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