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Ancient Roman marble sculpture of Faustina the Elder in the Getty Villa

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Portrait of Faustina the Elder  wikidata:Q124830073 reasonator:Q124830073
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Title
Portrait of Faustina the Elder Edit this at Wikidata
title QS:P1476,en:"Portrait of Faustina the Elder Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Len,"Portrait of Faustina the Elder Edit this at Wikidata"
label QS:Les,"Retrato de Faustina la Mayor"
Object type statue Edit this at Wikidata
Genre portrait Edit this at Wikidata
Description

Annia Galeria Faustina, known as Faustina the Elder, was the wife of Antoninus Pius, who ruled the Roman empire from A.D. 137 to 161. She probably married Antoninus Pius about A.D. 110 and they had four children. The marriage appears to have been quite loving compared to others in the Imperial family. Although she died twenty years before him, Antoninus Pius did not remarry. On her death in A.D. 141, Antoninus Pius declared Faustina divine and built a temple in her honor in the Roman Forum.

Portraits of Faustina can be identified by her distinctive hairstyle and facial features. This slightly over life-size statue combines a conventional portrait head for the empress with a standardized body type, referred to as a "Large Herculaneum Woman" by scholars. The size of this statue indicates that it occupied a public space, perhaps a city square or a temple dedicated to the divine Faustina.

Although they are now missing, Faustina may have held attributes of poppies and ears of wheat in her lowered left hand. That being the case, this statue would have portrayed the empress in the guise of Ceres, the goddess of fertility.

— J. Paul Getty Museum, in: getty.edu
Depicted people Faustina the Elder Edit this at Wikidata
Date between 140 and 160
date QS:P,+150-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1319,+0140-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+0160-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
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Medium marble Edit this at Wikidata
Dimensions height: 209 cm (82.2 in) Edit this at Wikidata; width: 78 cm (30.7 in) Edit this at Wikidata; depth: 55 cm (21.6 in) Edit this at Wikidata
dimensions QS:P2048,+209U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,+78U174728
dimensions QS:P5524,+55U174728
institution QS:P195,Q180401
Current location
Gallery 207, Later Roman Sculpture
Accession number
70.AA.113 (J. Paul Getty Museum) Edit this at Wikidata
Place of creation Roman Empire Edit this at Wikidata
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English: Ancient Roman marble sculpture of Faustina the Elder in the Getty Villa Edit this at Structured Data on Commons
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The Getty Center, Object 103SQC

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