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AN ITALIAN NEOCLASSIC WHITE MARBLE AND PORPHYRY PORTRAIT ROUNDEL OF THE EMPEROR NERO
19th century his head facing to the right carved in bas-relief with tightly curled shoulder-length hair and beard within an acanthus leaftip ogee-molded rim, on a scagliola simulated porphyry square panel with molded edge 371/2 X 37 ? IN. (95 X 95 CM)
$12,000-18,000
Nero Claudius Caesar AD. 37-68. Nero was notorious for his cruelty and ruled with a vanity and irresponsibility that antagonized most sectors of society. His early reign was dominated by his mother, Agrippina the Younger, Seneca, Afranius Burrus and Sextus, but by AD. 62 Nero had thrown off these influences. Agrippina was murdered in AD. 59 and Burrus died, probably poisoned, in AD. 62. Nero murdered his wife Octavia in AD. 62 in order to marry Poppaea who herself died in
AD. 65 as a result of being kicked by her husband. A conspiracy to assassinate Nero in AD. 65 failed. As a result, Seneca, who had been Nero's tutor and later his chief minister, was forced to commit suicide in AD. 68. Later, revolts in Gaul, Spain and Africa and the mutiny of his palace guards forced Nero to flee Rome and precipitated his suicide
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