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| Keywords: Italian - Colossal Head in the Guise of Hercules - Walters 27533 - Three Quarter.jpg This large marble head possibly from an over-life-sized sculpture of Hercules was excavated near the Florence baptistery and adapted and partly recarved to fit a medieval sculpture Differences in the drill marks on the beard and the hair those in the hair are finer and deeper than those in the beard indicate that the head was probably modified in the Middle Ages Many of the sculpted figures that once adorned the facade of the Duomo in Florence were completed with adaptations of ancient heads The nose and left ear of this head are modern 2nd century reworked 14th century Medieval marble cm 43 2 accession number 27 533 6852 Arthur Sambon Paris date of acquisition unknown by purchase Joseph Brummer Paris and New York date of acquisition unknown by purchase Brummer Sale Parke-Bernet New York June 9 1949 Pt III no 558 Walters Art Museum June 9 1949 by purchase Museum purchase 1949 Early Christian and Byzantine Art Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore 1947 place of origin Florence Italy Walters Art Museum license Medieval art in the Walters Art Museum Italian art in the Walters Art Museum Media contributed by the Walters Art Museum needs category review | ||||
