Portrait of a Roman Youth
from Italy
mid-2nd c. CE
“A quiver to the boy’s right suggests that he is being identified with the god Apollo, who was often shown carrying a bow and arrows. Because in Roman Imperial times the deceased were sometime sculpted as deities to indicate that they had become immortal, this boy’s sculpture was probably carved after his death.”
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (Kansas City, MO)
Sunday, May 6, 2018
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