Hand carved yellow Siena and white Carrara marble.
Portrait of roman emperor Caracalla.
Caracalla was a Roman emperor from the Severan Dynasty.
He was famous for the Edict of Caracalla which granted Roman citizenship to nearly all freemen throughout the Roman Empire.
Caracalla’s portrait was very famous, it became an archetype and it was adopted by most of the following emperors. Caracalla wanted to be a soldier-emperor: he marched, behaved and he was portrayed as a soldier. As a matter of fact, even his short haircut resembles the soldiers’.
The opportunity of the portrait, judging by the many copies and comparisons with the medieval cones, had to be assuming all the responsibilities of the empire after the killing of Geta (212)
The emperor is caught in a moment of maximum concentration, probably in anticipation of the Empire.
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