Ancient Roman Portrait of a Child (AD 150-200) Unknown Artist, Framed Print Shorts or female master practitioner

or female master practitioner

Model: S-143-B

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Voltage: 110V-220V

Ancient Roman Portrait of a Child (AD 150-200) Unknown Artist, Framed Print Shorts or female master practitionerPublic domain art from the Getty Museum, digitally enhanced in high resolution. This child, probably a boy of early toddler age, is among the most sensitive portraits of very young children known in Roman art. Broken at the neck, the head would have sat on a full length statue or a bust. Several features of this portrait are characteristic of Roman sculpture in the Antonine period (AD 138 192), such as the interest in observing personality, depicting