Augustus and Family
Via Labicana Augustus
Because hundreds of photographs of portraits of Augustus are available in print and on the web, I include here only the statue most similar to the relief of Augustus on the Ara Pacis. Although the figure as a whole is of ordinary quality, the head is one of the fnest of all portraits of Augustus, exceptionally refined. The statue was found in 1910 in the Via Labicana and is now in the Palazzo Massimo ale Terme, Rome.
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Public front (original east), originally facing the Via Flaminia. photo July-Oct. 2008 |
The original altar had no steps up to the doorway on this front because, unli photo July-Oct. 2008 |
Public front (original east), originally facing the Via Flaminia. photo July-Oct. 2008 |
"Plate 1. Reconstruction of the altar, designed by Joseph Durm" "Visfgfdffdfffd Scanned from Karl Disel, Der Opferzug der Ara Pacis Augustae, nebst drei Tafeln; Hamburg, 1907, pl.1. |
"Plate 2 - East front of the monument", print by "Leporini, Rom Scanned from Giuseppe Moretti, L'Ara Pacis Augustae; Rome, 2005 (1st ed. 1948), vol.2, pl.2.
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"Fig. 2 The Eastfront of the Ara Pacis" This is the most wide Scanned from Heinz Kähler, "Die Front der Ara Pacis", Neue Beiträge zur Klassischen Altertumswissenschaft, ed. Reinhard Lullies; Stuttgart, 1954, fig.2. |
These 2 photographs show the altar as seen in the 1938 glass and concrete pavilion designed by Vitto Scanned from Erika Simon, Ara Pacis Augusta; Türbingen, 1967, pl.1. |
Demonstration of an innovative, technically complex projection of color sp Copied from Flickr, 24 Nov. 2009, with appreciation. |
Demonstration of an innovative, technically complex projection of color spo Copied from Flickr, 24 Nov. 2009, with appreciation. |
Proposed color of original painted surface, 2006. Scanned July-Oct. 2008, computer video display, Museo dell'Ara Pacis, lower level display, with appreciation. |
Demonstration of an innovative, technically complex projection of color sp Copied from Flickr, 24 Nov. 2009, with appreciation. |
Demonstration of an innovative, technically complex projection of color spots, to sugge Copied from Flickr, 24 Nov. 2009, with appreciation. |