Images

A portrait of Cato the Younger (95 BCE - 46 BCE), a politician and statesman in the late Roman Republic, and a follower of the Stoic philosophy. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

The General Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus (236–183 BC), original from the Tomb of the Scipiones, end of the 2nd century BCE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

The so-called bust of Sulla (c. 138 BCE – 78 BCE), a Roman general and statesman. Augustan copy of an original of the late 2nd century BCE. (Glyptothek, Munich)

Head of Gallienus from a colossal statue, found near the Baths of Caracalla, Rome, c. 253-268 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Head of Vitellius, 69 CE, from Rome. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

Portrait of Nerva, between 96 and 98 CE. (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome)

A portrait of Roman Emperor Vespasian, from Naples, c. 70 CE. (Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen)

A portrait bust of Vespasian, from Minturnae (Minturno, Italy), 69-79 CE. (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome)

A portrait bust of Vespasian, from Ostia, 69-79 CE. (Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome)

Statue of an emperor, heavily restored by Bartolomeo Cavaceppi as a portrait of emperor Galba. (Sala Rotonda Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museums)