Statue of member of the Imperial family

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This statue was probably part of a statuary group portraying and honouring members of the Julio-Claudian dynasty that ruled Rome from the time of Augustus to that of Nero. The stance of this partially nude figures brings to mind the canonic works of Polykleitos, one of the most famous Greek sculptors of the fifth century BC, and was almost certainly intended to give a heroizing aura to the statues. It has been argued that the draping of the mantle around the hips and over the arm was a specific iconographic indication that the individual being honoured was already deceased. 

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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, colloquially "the Met", is located in New York City and is the largest art museum in the United States, and is among the most visited art museums in the world. Its permanent collection contains over two million works, divided among seventeen curatorial departments. The main building, on the eastern edge of Central Park along Manhattan's Museum Mile, is by area one of the world's largest art galleries. A much smaller second location, The Cloisters at Fort Tryon Park in Upper Manhattan, contains an extensive collection of art, architecture, and artifacts from Medieval Europe.

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