Roman Portraits in Context: Imperial and Private Likenesses from the Museo Nazionale Romano

The twenty-two masterworks in this exhibition—loaned to Emory University Museum by the Museo Nazionale Romano—include some of the most significant Roman portrait sculptures known. In the exhibition catalog, each portrait is first presented in a striking full-color photograph, and then detailed in four different perspectives in black and white photographs, accompanied by a detailed scholarly description. Two historical essays by the authors place the magnificent sculptures in the context of Roman society and relate whatever information survives about their discovery.