Torso from a Statue of a Man Wearing a Hip Mantle
Culture: Roman
Period: Julio-Claudian
Date: early-mid 1st century A.D.
Medium: Marble
Dimensions:
height: 36 5/8 in. (93 cm)
width: 19 11/16 in. (50 cm)
depth: 12 5/8 in. (32 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Gilbert M. Denman, Jr.
Object number: 86.134.119
Provenance: sold by Fallani, Rome, to Gilbert M. Denman, Jr. (1921-2004), San Antonio, 1963; Gilbert M. Denman, Jr., by gift to San Antonio Museum of Art, 1987
Published References
H. Hoffmann, Ten Centuries that Shaped the West: Greek and Roman Art in Texas Collections (Houston, 1971), 109-111, no. 34
Label Text
This powerful torso once belonged to a portrait statue of a man wearing a hip mantle, a mantle draped around his hips and legs and looped over his left arm. The torso’s neck is hollowed out for the insertion of a portrait head, which would have been carved separately. The torso, in turn, would have fit into the separately carved mantle and legs. Portraits in the hip mantle were made for Augustus and other members of the Julio-Claudian family in the early and middle 1st century A.D. Portraits in this format were occasionally created in the same period to honor prominent men unrelated to the imperial family. (Jessica Powers, 2008)
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