THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Portraiture | Child portrait
1. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The funerary relief of Petronii, a mother and son.
Marble.
Ca. 110—120 CE.
Inv. No. 99.348.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
2. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The funerary relief of Petronii. Detail: Lucius Petronius Philemon.
Marble.
Ca. 110—120 CE.
Inv. No. 99.348.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
3. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The funerary relief of Petronii. Detail: Lucius Petronius Philemon.
Marble.
Ca. 110—120 CE.
Inv. No. 99.348.
Boston, Museum of Fine Arts.
4. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Grave stele (grave marker) with a family group.
Marble.
Attic work, ca. 360 BCE.
Inv. No. 11.100.2.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lucius Verus as a child.
Luna marble.
2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 47.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
6. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait head of a young prince of the Julio-Claudian dynasty (Britannicus?).
Marble.
Mid-1st cent. CE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Funerary tabernacle stele of the Arrii.
Istrian stone.
First half of the 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 9.
Ravenna, National Museum.
8. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A sarcophagus of a child with vintage scenes.
Luni (Carrara) marble.
2nd century CE.
Rome, National Museum of Palazzo Venezia.
9. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Headstone of the Vibii.
Limestone.
Second half of the 1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 2109.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Chiaramonti Museum, LIV. 21.
10. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Headstone of the Vibii.
Fine-grained bluish marble.
Late 1st century BCE.
Inv. No. 2109.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Chiaramonti Museum, LIV. 21.
11. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Funerary relief.
Marble.
Augustan age (27 BCE — 14 CE).
Inv. No. 2167.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Chiaramonti Museum, LIX. 8.