Portrait of Augustus Recut from Portrait of Caligula- Getty Museum

Nero Julius- Brother of Caligula

Caligula Damnatio Memoriae- face obliterated, note date cos IIII.

Caligula?- Museo Gregoriano Profano- M. Pardy

Caligula- J. Paul Getty Museum

Caligula- Yale

Roman Emperor Caligula.
Museo Nazionale Romano, Palazzo Massimo, Rome.  Hans photo

Portrait re-cut from Caligula to Claudius- Hans photo
Bust of Roman Emperor Claudius.
41-54 A.D.
Marble.
From Nikomedia.
Roman, Julio-Claudian Dynasty, time of Julius Claudius.
Treasures of the Istanbul Archeological Museums Complex. 

Roman Emperor Caligula.
A.D.37-41.
Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.  Hans photo



Caligula?- Museo Gregoriano Profano- M. Pardy

Caligula?- Museo Gregoriano Profano- M. Pardy


Caligula- Gortyn-Greece

Roman Emperor Caligula.
Julio-Claudian period.
A.D.37-41.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.  Hans photo

Roman Emperor Caligula.  Note the deep undercutting and work on this portrait.
Julio-Claudian period.
A.D.37-41.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.  Hans photo

Roman Emperor Caligula.  Note the deep undercutting and work on this portrait.
Julio-Claudian period.
A.D.37-41.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.  Hans photo

Roman Emperor Caligula.  Note the deep undercutting and work on this portrait.
Julio-Claudian period.
A.D.37-41.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.  Hans photo

Roman Emperor Caligula.  
Julio-Claudian period.
A.D.37-41.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.  Hans photo




Statue of Roman Emperor Caligula.
Circa 39-40 A.D.
Marble.
Musée du Louvre, Paris.  Hans Photo

Statue of Roman Emperor Caligula.
Circa 39-40 A.D.
Marble.
Musée du Louvre, Paris.  Hans Photo


Caligula- New York Met. Museum (Bill Storage)

This figure wears a cuirass, or breastplate decorated with the insigna of the Imperial Julio-Claudian family (reigned A.D. 14-68), indicating that it portrayed one of Emperor Augustus' successors, perhaps Caligula.
Parian marble.



Caligula Bronze Portrait-  (Met. Museum)

Onyx cameo of the Roman Emperor Gaius (Caligula).
Roman, ca. A.D.37-43.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. 
Boschung's Book, Die Bildnisse des Caligula; (plate 29, figs. 1-2)  Photo Mensje (Educational use only)


Image of: Portrait of a man (Drusus Germanicus?)
Portrait of a man (Drusus Germanicus?)
Roman, Imperial Period, Julio-Claudian, about A.D. 30, reworked about A.D. 33

Height: 37.5 cm (14 3/4 in.)
Marble, possibly from the Greek island of Paros

Classification: Sculpture

Bust of a Julio-Claudian man. The original subject of this bust was probably the imperial prince Drusus Germanicus, brother of the Emperor Caligula. Portraits of Drusus Germanicus show him with a hairstyle that has locks curving out from a central fork with a small 'pincer' lock on the right corner of the hairline and none on the left. Originally, this hairstyle was present here; however, the hair above the forehead has been chiseled away by someone using both a pointed and a toothed chisel. The new face bears some resemblance to the Emperor Claudius in its oval shape and also the Emperor Caligula in terms of its unusual characteristic of having the hair combed back instead of forward and down from the crown of the head. A number of Roman portraits were recarved in antiquity, particularly of individuals who had fallen out of imperial favor.

The neck, which has been broken across the front, was worked for insertion in a draped (or draped and cuirassed) statue or bust. The ears are chipped, and the crown of the head has been damaged slightly. Otherwise, allowing for the alterations mentioned in the description below, the head is in excellent condition, with an irregular but attractive yellow patina.  (Used under the MFA Educational Only Guidelines)


Caligula Re-Cut?- MFA- (Photo courtesy Michael Rogers) Frontal




Caligula Re-Cut?- MFA- (Photo courtesy Michael Rogers) Left Profile



Caligula Re-Cut?- MFA- (Photo courtesy Michael Rogers) Right Profile


Caligula- Athens

Portrait head of the Roman Emperor Caligula (A.D.37-41)
Pentelic marble.
National Archeological Museum, Athens. 


Caligula on Globe (Bronze)


Caligula Frontal NY Glyptotek Museum (Educational Guidelines Only)

Caligula Right Profiel Ny GLyptotek - (Eduational Guidelines Only)

Caligula Back Profile Ny Glyptotek (educationsla Guidelines Only)
Marble, H. 51 cm

Caligula Slight left Profile NY Glyptotek (Educational Use Only)



Caligula Bronze (Fitzwilliam Museum)


Caligula- New Haven Head Yale (Flickr.com)

Caligula-
Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei in Baia. (Mr. Jennings Photo)

Caligula- Museo Archeologico dei Campi Flegrei in Baia. (Mr. Jennings Photo)


Caligula(s) Ny Glyptotek Copenhagen


Caligula- Athens

Marble portrait of an emperor wearing the corona civica (Caligula Re-Cut)?
Roman, Late Imperial period, ca. A.D. 250-284

This resolute figure wears the corona civica, a wreath of oak leaves. Originally a modest award to soldiers who had rescued a comrade in battle, an honorary oak wreath was given to the Augustus, early in his reign, and it soon became an insignia of power, an imperial prerogative maintained by all his successors, down to the end of the Roman Empire. This imperial head has been recarved from an earlier portrait, probably that of the Julio-Claudian emperor Caligula.  Remnants of the original coiffure can be see


Caligula- Sabratha- Very Rare Portrait

The Coinage of Caligula---

Caligula- Photo by Hans (Ny Glyptotek Copenhagen)
Caligula- Photo by Hans (Ny Glyptotek Copenhagen)
Note the traces of original paint around the iris.  Very rare for Julio Claudian portraiture.

Caligula- Photo by Hans (Ny Glyptotek Copenhagen)

Caligula- Photo by Hans- Ny Glyptotek Copenhagen

Caligula- Photo by Hans- Ny Glyptotek Copenhagen

Nero Iulius- Brother of Caligula- Note similiar hairstyle.  This is why Caligulan portraiture is so difficult to identify, due to hairstyle and physiognomy.  Coinage of Nero and Drusus Iulius Caesar' are usually crude provincial portraits or too small to have any iconographical value.  Joe Geranio


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