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Roman Gentleman

Former TitleThe Roman Legislator
CultureRoman
Dateca. 120 C.E.
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 17 × 23 5/8 × 10 3/4 inches, 95 lb. (43.18 × 60.02 × 27.31 cm, 43.09 kg)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-30
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 104
Collections
Exhibition History

Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger’s Craft, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 3, 1996-January 5, 1997; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February 8-May 18, 1997.

Provenance

De Sanctis Mangelli, Rome, by 1946;

 

With Giulio Simotti Rocchi, Rome, by 1947;

 

Purchased from Rocchi, through Harold Woodbury Parsons, by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1947.
Published References

The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, The William Rockhill Nelson Collection, 3rd ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1949), 29.

 

Ross E. Taggart, ed., Handbook of the Collections in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 4th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1959), 37.

 

Ross E. Taggart and George L. McKenna, eds., Handbook of the Collections in The William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, Kansas City, Missouri, vol. 1, Art of the Occident, 5th ed. (Kansas City, MO: William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art and Mary Atkins Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), 47.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, “Ten Greek and Roman Portraits in Kansas City,” Apollo 99, no. 147 (1974): 315-16, 319, no. 4, figs. 4, 4a.

 

Hans Goette, “Das Bildnis der Marcus Vilonius Varro in Kopenhagen. Zu den Basen von Portraibüsten und zum Realismus flavisch-trajanischer Bildnisse,” Boreas 7 (1984): 102 (z).

 

Hans Goette, "Zum Bildnis des 'Cicero,'" Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archaeologischen Instituts, Roemische Abteiluing 92 (1985): 305, no. I.1.

 

Hans Goette, Studien zu rōmischen Togadarstellungen, Beiträge zur Erschließung hellenistischer und kaiserzeitlischer Skulptur und Architektur 10 (Philipp von Zabern: Mainz am Rhein, 1990), 66, 149, L 17.

 

Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 122.

 

Robert Cohon, Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger’s Craft, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 32-35, plates 1-3.

 

Anthony Corbeill, Controlling Laughter: Political Humor in the Late Roman Republic (Princeton: University Press, 1996), cover.

 

Gene Mittler and Rosalind Ragans, Understanding Art (Glencoe: McGraw Hill, 2007), 145, figs. 9-15.

 

Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 15, fig. 39.

 

Klaus Fittschen, “Il fenomeno dell’assimilazione delle immagini nella ritrattistica romana di età imperiale,” in Ritratti. Le tante facce del potere, ed. Eugenio La Rocca, Claudio Parisi Presicce, and Annalisa Lo Monaco (Rome: Roma Capitale, Musei Capitolini, 2011), 251, fig. 12.
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