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Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-13, described as Cast of bust of Nerva. Original in Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-275, described as Cast of bust of Saturn or Crassus. From a marble in the Vatican, Rome. Restored: nose, lower part of mantle, bust. Compare with Helbig, no. 239. The Romans tried to identify the Italian Saturn with the Greek Cronos. It is uncertain which is intended by this head. Transition from fifth to fourth Century.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-33, described as Cast of bust of a Triton. It is one of the mythological sculptures with features like Alexander the Great. The original is a torso, and wears a nebris of some marine creature’s skin.
Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-14, described as Terracotta cast of bust of Trajan, AD 98 to 117. Terracotta. Remarks: “Taken to library January 23, 1928. On permanent exhibit in Morrison Library since opening of room, February 1928.”
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-12, described as Cast of bust of Vitellius. Original in Uffizi Gallery, Florence.
Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-272, described as Cast of bust of Marcus Junius Brutus. From a marble in the Capitoline Museum, Rome. restored: end of nose, bits of forehead and left cheek. This is the Brutus who had a part in the assassination of Caesar. The identification is not altogether certain, but is probably correct. The head resembles coin portraits of Brutus and fits his character as it is described.
Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-108, described as Cast of big bust of Athena in Corinthian helmet and aegis. From a marble of Pentelic stone found near Tusculum (Rome) Roayl Glyptothek, Munich. This bust repeats the famous Pallas of Valletri in Paris and is a better sculpture. The type is the handsomest of all the Greek Minervas we have. The head and gave are long, and of masculine severity, very different from the round, almost Dutch face of the Athena Parthenos. The marble preserves the hardness of a bronze original. New: nose, part of nether lip, sections of helmet and aegis. Formerly in the Villa Albani, Rome. Went to Paris as one of Napoleon’s trophies. Piroli, Musée Napoleon I, plate 8.
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-2, described as Cast of “Bust of a Greek philosopher”. Found by Eugene Hambar at “The Baths of Diana” Smyrna. Molded in Smyrna. Both original marbles were bought by the Royal Brussels Museum. The subjects were probably statesmen or teachers of local renown. The workmanship is of the best imperial age (2nd century).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-1, described as Cast of “Bust of a Greek philosopher”. Found by Eugene Hambar at “The Baths of Diana” Smyrna. Molded in Smyrna. Both original marbles were bought by the Royal Brussels Museum. The subjects were probably statesmen or teachers of local renown. The workmanship is of the best imperial age (2nd century).
Image Missing: Hearst Museum object titled Bust (reproduction), accession number 21-32, described as Cast of bust of Poseidon. Palazzo dei Conservatori, Rome.

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