Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Marcus Aurelius by Ancient Roman
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Aureus (Coin) Portraying Emperor Marcus Aurelius

Ancient Roman · 167 (December)-168 (December), issued by Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. William F. Dunham (1857-1936), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Recent Acquisitions: Collection of Classical Coins, Summer 1922.

Literature

Published references

  • Art Institute of Chicago, "New Coins in the Classical Collection," Bulletin of the Art Institute of Chicago vol. 16, no. 4 (September 1922) pp. 50-51.
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “Exhibition Schedule,” Art Institute of Chicago News and Events (September–October 2004), p. 6 (ill.).
  • 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), pp. 28; 90–91, cat. 20E (ill.), fig. 20.1; 113.
  • Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Cat. 23 Aureus Portraying Marcus Aurelius: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
  • Rachel C. Sabino, “Cat. 23 Aureus Portraying Marcus Aurelius: Technical Report,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
  • Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Cat. 58 Aureus Portraying Septimius Severus: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016), para 3, fig. 58.3.
  • https://publications.artic.edu/roman/reader/romanart/section/511
  • Elizabeth Hahn Benge, “From Aegina to Andronicus: A Survey of Coinage at the Art Institute of Chicago,” Historia mundi: Le medaglie raccontano la storia, l’arte, la cultura dell’uomo 5 (January, 2016), pp. 212, 213, fig. 14.

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