Lot 162
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AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE AUGUSTUS 'PRIMA PORTA'
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AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE AUGUSTUS 'PRIMA PORTA'

BY A.MESSINA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY

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AN ITALIAN BRONZE FIGURE OF THE AUGUSTUS 'PRIMA PORTA'
BY A.MESSINA, SECOND HALF 19TH CENTURY
After the Antique, inscribed to the base 'A.MESSINA. ROME', mounted on a stepped black marble pedestal inset with a bronze panel of a fruiting swag, raised on a cylindrical wood plinth
The bronze -- 19in. (48.2cm.) high; 36¼in. (92.7cm.) high overall
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Lot Essay

This model is a copy of an original statue found at Prima Porta, near Rome, which dates from the 1st century B C. and is currently in the Vatican collection. It is thought to have been the first work of sculpture in which the adlocutio stance was utilised, whereby the subject is given a bearing of power and influence by the use of a raised arm, suggesting that he is in the act of addressing his troops or an assembly.

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