Augustus of Prima Porta
A. Messina
Category
Art / Sculpture
Date
1863 - 1899
Materials
Bronze, Marble
Measurements
485 mm (Height)
Place of origin
Rome
Order this imageCollection
Hill Top, Cumbria
NT 642036
Summary
Bronze, Augustus of Prima Porta, cast Antonio Messina, Rome, c. 1863-1899, after the antique. A bronze reduction of the Augustus of Prima Porta, a full-length 1st century AD marble statue of Caesar Augustus, Emperor of Rome (63 BC – 14 AD), discovered at the Villa Livia in Prima Porta near Rome in 1863 and now in the Vatican Museums, Rome. Mounted on a separately cast bronze base and rosso levanto columnar pedestal.
Makers and roles
A. Messina, sculptor