A family member of a long-distance acquaintance of mine has a stone bust of a hairy old mystery man. She wonders who it is. Any ideas? (Please don’t ask me any questions about the artwork, as I know absolutely nothing about it except what it looks like, same as you.) Thanks all, in advance!
Looks a lot like Hippocrates with the nose and all those brow ridges. Still that headband(?) looks religious.
We had a bust at school somewhat like this one. It was (supposedly) of Euclid.
D’oh! Looks like Homer to me.
– Tammi Terrell
Not only that, it looks like it’s a copy of the same bust—same of the hair patterns look to be the same.
Damn! I was going to say Aristotle. Of course, this is all a very moot point…
For some odd reason, I was thinking Galen…
It’s the Farnese Homer, the original of which - in the sense of the surviving Roman copy of a lost Greek bust - is in the Museo Archeologico Nazionale in Naples.
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Here’s another pic.
It looks like a match.
Nice bust.
I wish I knew more about classical art, but it’s all Greek to me.