Currently not on view
Portrait of Socrates (Type B), after a bronze prototype of around 320 B.C.,
probably 4th century CE
Roman
y1990-84
Information
Title
Portrait of Socrates (Type B), after a bronze prototype of around 320 B.C.
Dates
probably 4th century CE
Medium
Fine-grained white marble, probably Carrara
Dimensions
preserved: 28.1 x 20.0 x 17.9 cm (11 1/16 x 7 7/8 x 7 1/16 in.)
Credit Line
Bequest of P. H. von Blanckenhagen
Object Number
y1990-84
Period
Type
Materials
Acquired by P.H. von Blackenhagen at an unknown date from an unknown source; bequeathed by the Museum in1990 by von Blackenhagen.
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Helga von Heintze, "Studien zur griechischen Porträtkunst", Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Römische Abteilung 71 (1964)
, p. 71-103, esp. 77-81; pls. 16-17.1-2, 4 -
Gisela Marie Augusta Richter, The portraits of the Greeks, (London: Phaidon Press, 1965).
, Vol. 1: p. 103; cat. no. 5; figs. 442-43. - "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1990," Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 50, no. 1 (1991): p. 16-69., pp. 62–63 (illus.)
- B. S. Ridgway, et al., Greek sculpture in the Art Museum, Princeton University: Greek originals, Roman copies and variants, (Princeton, NJ: The Art Museum, Princeton University, 1994)., no. 1; p. 10-12 (illus.)
- Ingeborg Scheibler, "Rezeptionsphasen des jüngeren Sokratesporträts in der Kaiserzeit", Jahrbuch des deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 119 (2004)., p. 236; cat. no. 26; p. 237; fig. 29a-c.
