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Capitoline Museum - Hall of the Philosophers

The arrangement of this collection of portraits of Greek and Roman philosophers and men of letters, very popular with the Romans for the decoration of their public and private buildings, is along the same lines as that in the Hall of the Emperors.

Many of the portraits are late reproductions and were carried out long after the lifetime of the characters they represent.

List of works

Herm depicting Euripides
From an original greek of 4th century BC
inv. MC0546
Portrait of Homer
From hellenistic period (about 200 BC)
inv. MC0557
Herm depicting Socrates
From an original greek of second half of 4th century BC
inv. MC0508
Portrait of Cicero
Half of 1st century AC
inv. MC0589
Herm depicting “Pythagoras”
From an original greek of second half of 5th century BC
inv. MC0594

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