Young Man with a Book
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Basic information
Additionally
- Type
- sculpture 3D
- Provenance
- From the facade of the Lanckoronski Palace in Staryi Rozdil
- Exposition
- Potocki Palace
Information about author
Object description
The Greco-Roman figure stylistically belongs to the late 3rd to early 1st century BC. The sculpture depicts a full-length figure of a young man wearing a himation. Portrait depictions of children were commissioned infrequently, mainly focusing on images of ruling successors. Similar sculptures are preserved in the museums of the Vatican, the Louvre, and a private collection in London, and they indicate the iconographic type of the portrait of the young Nero, who received the "toga of manhood" and other privileges as a youth. After the enactment of the law of "complete oblivion", declared after Nero's reign, his sculptural portraits were destroyed. Today, only about twenty images of the emperor still exist.
Legal regulation
Borys Voznytskyi Lviv National Art Gallery
