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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joe Geranio, post: 608307, member: 4473&quot;]<img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julio-claudians/3132214320/sizes/o/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />The Ravenna Relief from The Julio Claudian Period</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>Joe Geranio</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><br /></p><p>There were two marble fragments found from the Claudian period? that now reside at the Museo National in Ravenna Italy.&nbsp;&nbsp; It could have been an altar or other monument, it was found near or in the mausoleum of Galla Placidia in the sixteenth century.&nbsp; The fragment relief was meant to depict a dynastic statuary group from the Julio Claudian dynasty.&nbsp; Who were these figures and what did they represent?</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julio-claudians/3132214320/sizes/o/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/julio-claudians/3132214320/sizes/o/" rel="nofollow">http://www.flickr.com/photos/julio-claudians/3132214320/sizes/o/</a></p><p><br /></p><p>This is the first public relief (monument) to show the imperial family in full portrait frontality.&nbsp;&nbsp; There were republican funerary monuments that showed full frontality, but not of the imperial family.&nbsp; We can clearly see Augustus as Mars (Far Right) idnetified by his hairstyle and pyhsiognomy&nbsp; Augustus is also wearing the &quot;Corona Civicta&quot;.&nbsp; (To the left) of Augustus we have Livia as Venus, Eros is on her left shoulder, and wearing a tiara.&nbsp; Her dress is based on Venus Genetrix of the fifth century B.C.&nbsp;&nbsp; (To the left) of Livia we have Germanicus, brother of Claudius.&nbsp; The figure to the left of Germanicus appears to be Drusus the elder, Patriae Claudiu.&nbsp;&nbsp; The seated figure on the (far left) has been identified as either Antonia (mother of Claudius or a representation of pietas.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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