Donor: Alfred Emerson / Maker or artist: Leopoldo Malpieri / Person depicted: Pericles/Perikles (Greek deity) - Hearst Museum Portal Search Results

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Hearst Museum object titled Terminal bust (reproduction), accession number 21-36, described as Cast of terminal bust of Perikles, of certain identity, guaranteed by the antique inscription of a counterpart herma in the British Museum. Compare Visconti’s Iconographic greique plate 15. The signature, by Kresilas of Crete, of a portrait of P. on the Akropolis, is extant. Modern opinion sees copies of Kresilas’s work in the Vatican and London busts. Compare Furtwaengler’s Kresilas in his Masterpieces of Greek sculpture.