Bronze portrait head – Aspects of Beauty

From Delos (“Palaestra of Granite”). Early 1st c. BC.
(ΕΑΜ/ΝΑΜ Χ 14612)

Α distinctively realistic face of an anonymous figure carrying the burden of ephemeral thoughts and everyday concerns. Wrinkles on the forehead, at the edges of the eyes, melancholic expression of a wet look, made more lively by the colour variegation of the eyes, are characteristics that contrast the idealism of the classic rule.