Portrait of Roman emperor Augustus at Glyptothek in Munich. The sculpture, dating back to the final years of Augustus who died in AD 14, was part of the Bevilacqua collection in Verona/Italy and acquired by crown prince Ludwig who later became King Ludwig I. of Bavaria.
Bavarikon: „The portrait (…) shows the emperor in a state of superior elegance and remote beauty, with a calm face and a well-ordered hairstyle. Unlike contemporaneous Republican portraits with their distinctive and wrinkled character faces which attempted to illustrate the life-time achievement and the political experience of the person portrayed, there is no trace of age or exertion. The ruler presents imself to the public as confident and ageless, exalted above the vicissitudes of fate and the transience of human life.“
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