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Augustus as a magistrate, marble head made c. BC 30–20, the body sculpted in the 2nd century AD, from Velletri (Italy), Louvre Museum, Paris
Augustus as a magistrate, marble head made c. BC 30–20, the body sculpted in the 2nd century AD, from Velletri (Italy), Louvre Museum, Paris

Marble
H. 2.07 m

Former Giustiniani collection. Vatican collection
Confiscated during the Napoleonic era; exchanged in 1815

(Emperor from 27 BC to AD 14)

Inventaire MR 100 (n° usuel Ma 1212)
Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Denon wing - Ground floor -Galerie Daru - Room B

The head of this statue of Augustus resembles the head of the statue (dated 20 BC) found in Livia's villa in Prima Porta, showing the emperor wearing a cuirass. In the eighteenth century the head was joined to a toga-clad body which is generally attributed to the Hadrianic period. The portrait is a prime example of Roman Augustan art: classical Greek idealism and Roman republican verism combine to extol the qualities of the emperor who restored peace and order to Rome.
A composite work

The Louvre has a number of portraits of Augustus, in various guises and at various ages. He is depicted here at about forty years old. It is generally admitted that the toga-clad body was carved at a later date than the portrait itself. The treatment of the loose, flowing folds of the toga recalls Hellenistic art, leading some to interpret it as a work from the Hadrianic period. It is thought that the head and body were assembled during the eighteenth century when the portrait belonged to the Giustiniani collection in Venice; by the time it reached the Vatican collections in 1780, it was in its present form. After the Treaty of Tolentino in 1797, the statue came to France together with other works from the papal collections; following Napoleon's defeat in 1815 it did not return to Italy, but was exchanged for Canova's colossal statue of Napoleon, and remained in Paris.

Source: www.louvre.fr/en/oeuvre-notices/augustus-emperor-27-bc-ad-14

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Taken on: December 18, 2011
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