surveyofwesternart:Portrait of Hadrian. After 117 CE. Marble. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome Hadrian
surveyofwesternart: Portrait of Hadrian. After 117 CE. Marble. Museo Nazionale Romano, Rome Hadrian took the Greek classicism style further than his predecessor Vespasian. He was know as “The Greekling” for his admiration of Greek Culture. He adopted the full beard that was characteristic of Greek philosophers. It was in his reign that sculptors started to carve the pupils and irises instead of painting them. -- source link
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