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Portrait of Lucius Verus at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Title
Portrait of the co-emperror Lucius Verus


Artist
Unknown Roman sculptor


Date
A.D. 161-169, Antonine period


Medium
Marble


Dimensions
x


Accession #
13.227.1


Credit
Rogers Fund, 1913



This fragmentary head comes from an over-life-sized portrait bust or statue of Lucius Verus, co-emperor with Marcus Aurelius (AD 161 - 180). At the beginning of his reign, Verus was sent to the East to direct military operations against the Parthians, and although the war was concluded successfully in AD 166, his returning troops brought back the plague, which ravaged the Empire for several years thereafter. He is compared unfavorably with Marcus Aurelius by the ancient sources, but the portrait shown here has a leonine majesty that gives litle indication of his reputation as an idle and dissolute ruler. It is typical of Antonine style in its use of luxuriant drillwork in the hair and engraved eyes to dramatize the basically naturalistic image.

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