Female portrait
Type:
Sculpture
Year:
Late IInd – first half of the IIIrd century AD
Material and technique:
Marble
Origin:
Rome, Via dei Fori Imperiali, previously in the garden of Villa Rivaldi (1933)
Inventory:
MC6268
Masterpieces of the hall
The hall
During the excavations for the creation of the Via dei Fori Imperiali a large and extravagant private residence was brought to light in the garden of the Villa Rivaldi. It was constructed in the mid-first century AD and restored between the mid-second and mid-third centuries AD.
Most of the sculptural decoration comes from this phase. The whole gallery of portraits of emperors, empresses and illustrious personages, and splendid Roman copies and reworkings of Greek originals bears witness to the prestige of the owner of the house.
