Aureus (Coin) Portraying Empress Julia Domna by Ancient Roman
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Aureus (Coin) Portraying Empress Julia Domna

Ancient Roman · 196-211, issued by Septimius Severus

Provenance

Ownership history

  1. Martin A. Ryerson (1856-1932), Chicago; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 1922.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

Exhibitions

Exhibition history

  • Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 155, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, July 3, 2013 - Sept. 19, 2016.

Literature

Published references

  • Karen B. Alexander and Mary Greuel. Private Taste in Ancient Rome: Selections from Chicago Collections. Exh. cat. (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 1990), cat. 56.
  • 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. 29.
  • Theresa Gross-Diaz, “Cat. 59 Aureus Portraying Julia Domna: Curatorial Entry,” in Roman Art at the Art Institute of Chicago (Art Institute of Chicago, 2016).
  • https://publications.artic.edu/roman/reader/romanart/section/546

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