Antiquities Exhibits

 A newly conserved bust of an Antonine period military commander (140-160 CE) at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California is now on display.  The cloak, known as a paludamentum, worn over the left shoulder signifies that this man was a military commander. His short beard and tousled hair were fashionable during the reign of the emperor Antoninus Pius (138-161 CE), providing an approximate date for the sculpture. - Getty Villa Bust of a Roman military commander (140-160 CE) at the Getty Villa in Pacific Palisades, California

Henry Blundell Collection of Roman Sculpture, ongoing, at the World Museum in Liverpool, United Kingdom. Henry Blundell ( 1724-1810 ) was educated in the Classics in France and when the market for Italian antiquities dried up at the close of 18th century, Blundell purchased a variety of statues, busts and ash chests at auctions of important British collections of Roman sculpture. His collection is one of the few such collection s that remained together over the years and not scattered across different institutiions or individuals. Many of the statues and busts represent deities, heroes, and other mythological beings as well as a few well-known Roman emperors. The collection is said to be the largest collection of Roman sculpture outside of the British Museum. Image: Hermaphrodite struggling with old saytr found in the remains of a villa at Prato Bagnato on the Via Prenestina in 1776. Image courtesy of the World Museum, Liverpool then digitally enhanced.

Ancient Mediterranean and Early European Art ongoing at Middlebury College Museum of Art in Middlebury, Vermont. Portrait Bust of Roman Empress Furia Sabina Tranquillina, 241-244 CE by the Gordian Master. Image courtesy of the Middlebury College Museum of Art in Middlebury, Vermont. The ancient civilizations of the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean Bronze Age, Classical Greece, and Imperial Rome are represented by choice works of art that range in date from the fourth millennium B.C.E. to the third century C.E. Objects cover a variety of artistic media and include a comprehensive set of Mesopotamian s eals, an Assyrian alabaster palace relief, sunken-relief hieroglyphics from an Egyptian tomb, a late Egyptian mummy case, a marble Cycladic figurine, a fine Greek pottery collection, and Roman bronze and marble sculptures. The collection is augmented with a rotation of vintage photographs of some of antiquity’s most prominent monuments.