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Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Hadrian
Ancient Roman · 120-123, issued by Hadrian
Provenance
Ownership history
- Sold, Numismatica Ars Classica AG, Zurich, May 12, 2004, lot 387, to Harlan Berk, Chicago, IL; sold to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2004.
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.
Exhibitions
Exhibition history
- Art Institute of Chicago, A Portrait of Antinous, in Two Parts, Gallery 154, April 2-September 5, 2016.
- Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012-March 16, 2016; September 6, 2016-present.
Literature
Published references
- Karen B. Alexander, "From Plaster to Stone: Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," in Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New Haven: Yale University Press, 2012), p. 28.
- Karen Manchester, Recasting the Past: Collecting and Presenting Antiquities at the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago; New York: Yale University Press, 2012), pp. 90-91 (cat. 20), 113.
- Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Zurich, auction 27, sale cat. (Numismatica Ars Classica NAC AG, Zurich, May 12, 2004), lot 387 (ill.)
- Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 2003-04 (Art Institute of Chicago, 2004), p. 33.
- Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Cat. 50 Aureus Portraying Hadrian: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
- https://publications.artic.edu/roman/reader/romanart/section/537
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