NYC - Metropolitan Museum of Art: Severus Alexander

Marble portrait bust of Severus Alexander
Roman, late Severan period, ca A.D. 230-35
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace and Philodoroi Gifts, 2011 (2011.87)

The younger emperor (r. A.D. 222-35) is wearing a toga contabulata, with a large overfold (sinus) across the chest and a diagonal fold extending over the left shoulder and down the back. The type is distinctive of later Roman portraits in civic dress. The bust was probably produced in an imperial workship at Rome and set up in a prominent public place, perhaps with portraits of the emperor's predecessors or other family members, such as his mother, Julia Mamaea. The head, carved with great skill and sensitivity, combines a sense of maturity and power with youthful delicacy. The last emperor of the Severan dynasty, Severus Alexander died violently in Germany at the age of twenty-six.

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art's permanent collection contains more than two million works of art from around the world. It opened its doors on February 20, 1872, housed in a building located at 681 Fifth Avenue in New York City. Under their guidance of John Taylor Johnston and George Palmer Putnam, the Met's holdings, initially consisting of a Roman stone sarcophagus and 174 mostly European paintings, quickly outgrew the available space. In 1873, occasioned by the Met's purchase of the Cesnola Collection of Cypriot antiquities, the museum decamped from Fifth Avenue and took up residence at the Douglas Mansion on West 14th Street. However, these new accommodations were temporary; after negotiations with the city of New York, the Met acquired land on the east side of Central Park, where it built its permanent home, a red-brick Gothic Revival stone "mausoleum" designed by American architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mold. As of 2006, the Met measures almost a quarter mile long and occupies more than two million square feet, more than 20 times the size of the original 1880 building.

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