Italian Polychrome Marble Sculpture Bust Of Roman Emperor Hadrian Grand Tour

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Italian Polychrome Marble Sculpture Bust Of Roman Emperor Hadrian Grand Tour

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A very interesting Italian polychrome marble sculpture bust of roman emperor Hadrian Grand Tour. The marbles used are specimen and rare marbles, the head in Giallo antico latin name "Marmor Numidicum" the bust in Africano marble latin name "Marmo Luculleum" and the base in Verde Antico latin name "Marmor thessalicum", that represent a geographical description of Empire because each quarry coming from a different Legion. Roman society was a strongly visual society, with the majority of its population illiterate and unable to speak learned Latin circulating among the elite, the arts functioned as a kind of literature accessible to the broad masses, confirming ideologies and popularizing the image of eminent personalities. In this context, sculpture enjoyed a privileged position, occupying all public and private spaces and filling the city with countless examples of various techniques. Hadrian ( 24 January 76 – 10 July 138) was Roman emperor from 117 to 138. He was born in Italica (close to modern Santiponce in Spain), a Roman municipium founded by Italic settlers in Hispania Baetica. He came from a branch of the gens Aelia that originated in the Picenean town of Hadria, the Aeli Hadriani. His father was of senatorial rank and was a first cousin of Emperor Trajan. Hadrian was to spend more than half his reign outside Italy. Whereas previous emperors had, for the most part, relied on the reports of their imperial representatives around the Empire, Hadrian wished to see things for himself. Previous emperors had often left Rome for long periods, but mostly to go to war, returning once the conflict was settled. Hadrian's near-incessant travels may represent a calculated break with traditions and attitudes in which the empire was a purely Roman hegemony. Hadrian sought to include provincials in a commonwealth of civilised peoples and a common Hellenic culture under Roman supervision. He supported the creation of provincial towns (municipia), semi-autonomous urban communities with their own customs and laws, rather than the imposition of new Roman colonies with Roman constitutions. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).By the mid-18th century, the Grand Tour had become a regular feature of aristocratic education in Central Europe as well, although it was restricted to the higher nobility. The tradition declined in Europe as enthusiasm for classical culture waned, and with the advent of accessible rail and steamship travel—an era in which Thomas Cook made the "Cook's Tour" of early mass tourism a byword starting in the 1870s. The primary value of the Grand Tour lay in its exposure to the cultural legacy of classical antiquity and the Renaissance, and to the aristocratic and fashionably polite society of the European continent. It also provided the only opportunity to view specific works of art, and possibly the only chance to hear certain music, in Rome, antiquaries like Thomas Jenkins were also dealers and were able to sell and advise on the purchase of marbles; their price would rise if it were known that the Tourists were interested

Dimensions:
Height: 4.73 in (12 cm)Width: 3.55 in (9 cm)
Medium:
Marble
Period:
19th Century
Condition:
Gallery Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU1350112451112

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