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Brøns noted, “The modern perception of ancient Greco-Roman sculpture is influenced by ... has even discovered traces of beeswax on a portrait of Queen Berenice II, suggesting that it underwent ...

The quality is astounding. To see finer holdings of Roman art, you’d have to go to the Vatican or the Louvre. Image Much of the collection consists of portrait busts of emperors and eminences ...

This sculpture shows Fundilia as a matron (wife of the head of the family), indicated by the unusual arrangement of her hair in a tutulus. Herms are designed to show off portrait busts and are ...