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Caracalla

CultureRoman
Date215-217 C.E.
MediumMarble
DimensionsOverall: 19 × 18 1/4 inches (48.26 × 46.36 cm)
Credit LinePurchase: William Rockhill Nelson Trust
Object number47-66
On View
On view
Gallery Location
  • 104
Collections
Exhibition History

Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger’s Craft, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, October 11, 1996-January 5, 1997; Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, February 8-May 18, 1997.

     

Luxury: Treasures of the Roman Empire, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, July 9-October 2, 2016, hors cat.

 

Provenance

With Mario Barsanti, Rome, by 1947;

 

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

Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Portraits in American Collections Open to the Public: A Survey of Important Monumental Likenesses in Marble and Bronze Which Have Not Been Published Extensively, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 108, no. 2 (1964):  105-106, fig 40.

 

David Thompson, “An Equestrian Panel Painting from Roman Egypt,” in Bulletin of the Wadsworth Atheneum 8, no. 2 (Spring and Fall 1972): 52, fig 4.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, “Ten Greek and Roman Portraits in Kansas City,” Apollo 99, no. 147 (May 1974): 317-18, figs. 6, 6a.

 

Marianne Bergmann, Studien zum römischen Porträt des 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr. Antiquitas 3, Rehe 3. Abhandlungen zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, zur klassischen und provinzal-römischen Archäologie und zur Geschichte des Altertums 18 (Bonn: Rudolf Habelt Verlag GmbH, 1977), 25n84, 201, plate 3.1.

 

Cornelius Vermeule, Greek and Roman Sculpture in America (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1981), 250-51, no. 302.

 

Klaus Fittschen and Paul Zanker, Katalog der römischen Porträts in den Capitolinischen Museen und den anderen kommunalen Sammlungen der Stadt Rom, vol. 1, Kaiser- und Prinzenbildnisse. Beiträge zur Erschließung hellenistischer und kaiserzeitlischer Skulptur und Architektur 3 (Mainz am Rhein: Philipp von Zabern, 1985), 110, no. 1, Beilage 80 a,c,d.

 

Katherine Foran, “Gallery got a head of its time,” Kansas City Star (August 25, 1986): B1.

 

Ann Headington, “The Great Cellini and His Roster of Famous Fakes,” Connoisseur (September 1986): 101-102.

 

Robert Cohon, Discovery and Deceit: Archaeology and the Forger’s Craft, exh. cat. (Kansas City, MO: The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1996), 27, 30, plate 9.

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