Italian Polychrome Marble Sculpture Bust Roman Emperor Tiberius Grand Tour 19th

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Italian Polychrome Marble Sculpture Bust Roman Emperor Tiberius Grand Tour 19th
after 1800

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A very interesting Italian polychrome marble sculpture bust of roman emperor Tiberius 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. Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (16 November 42 BC – 16 March AD 37) was the second Roman emperor. He reigned from AD 14 until 37, succeeding his stepfather, the first Roman emperor Augustus. Tiberius was born in Rome in 42 BC. His father was the politician Tiberius Claudius Nero and his mother was Livia Drusilla, who would eventually divorce his father, and marry the future-emperor Augustus in 38 BC. Following the untimely deaths of Augustus' two grandsons and adopted heirs, Gaius and Lucius Caesar, Tiberius was designated Augustus' successor. Prior to this, Tiberius had proved himself an able diplomat, and one of the most successful Roman generals: his conquests of Pannonia, Dalmatia, Raetia, and (temporarily) parts of Germania laid the foundations for the empire's northern frontier. 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

Creation Year:
after 1800
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: LU1350112451092

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