Unfortunate I was not able to attend the class field trip to the Joslyn museum, but thankfully I am quite familiar with the museum and its inhabitants and took the opportunity to tour on my own. I studied mainly the ancient and Gothic pieces sense that is what we are primarily studying, and I was quite reluctant to find a piece that fit my fancy enough to write an essay about. I viewed the sculpture of an unknown artist, it was sculpted roughly around the Roman age 1st century A.D. and titled ‘The head of Augustus,’ who was also the founder of the Roman Empire and its first emperor, he ruled from 27 B.C. until his death in A.D. 14. He was born Gaius Octavius into an old and very wealthy equestrian branch of the plebeian Octavii family. Created in 20 A.D.
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Cited from Roman- Empire the British museum, London. Augustus was born in Rome on 23 September 63 B.C. His father was Gaius Octavius, who was also the first to become a senator, he died when Augustus was only 4 years old. Augustus was short, but handsome and well proportion, although he had beauty his character was said to be cruel when he was young, but later mellowed his temper. He had been appointed pontifex (priest) at the age of fifteen or sixteen, which explains any source of his brutality for he was given responsibility at such a young age. Octavian Augustus served under Julius Caesar in the Spanish expedition of 46 B.C. despite his weak health. He was also to take a senior military command in Caesar’s planned Parthian expedition of 44 B>C> although he was only 18 years old Octavian was with his friends Marcus Agrippa and Marcus Salvidienus Rufus in Appollonia in Epirus completing his academic and military studies, soon news was reached to him about Caesar’s assassination. He immediately returned to Rome, later discovering Caesar had adopted him in his will. But no doubt was he planning to avenge
Cited from Roman- Empire the British museum, London. Augustus was born in Rome on 23 September 63 B.C. His father was Gaius Octavius, who was also the first to become a senator, he died when Augustus was only 4 years old. Augustus was short, but handsome and well proportion, although he had beauty his character was said to be cruel when he was young, but later mellowed his temper. He had been appointed pontifex (priest) at the age of fifteen or sixteen, which explains any source of his brutality for he was given responsibility at such a young age. Octavian Augustus served under Julius Caesar in the Spanish expedition of 46 B.C. despite his weak health. He was also to take a senior military command in Caesar’s planned Parthian expedition of 44 B>C> although he was only 18 years old Octavian was with his friends Marcus Agrippa and Marcus Salvidienus Rufus in Appollonia in Epirus completing his academic and military studies, soon news was reached to him about Caesar’s assassination. He immediately returned to Rome, later discovering Caesar had adopted him in his will. But no doubt was he planning to avenge