PORTRAIT HEAD OF AN ELDER FROM SCOPPITO

Artist: N/A

Location: Museo Nazionale, Chieti

Aprox. Date: First Century BCE

Medium: Marble

Roman sculptures were very different from Greek and Etruscan sculptures.  This is so because Roman sculptures did not focus on ideal beauty but focused more on realism.  Many of their sculptures captured imperfections in the face and body as to show what the person really looked like. That can be seen in this sculpture of an elder, in the wrinkles in his forehead and the sagging of his face.

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