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Head of Plato

Ancient Greece, 370BCE

Head of Plato, Ancient Greece

Head of Plato, zoomed in

35 cm

Head of Plato scale comparison

Head of Plato is an Ancient Greek Marble Sculpture created in 370BCE. It lives at the Glyptothek Museum in Germany. The image is used according to Educational Fair Use, and tagged Sculpture and Heads. Source See Head of Plato in the Kaleidoscope

This head of Plato is a copy after a sculpture by the Greek sculptor, Silanion. In c. 370 BCE, Silanion was commissioned by the Persian general Mithridates to create the idealized portrait for the Academy of Athens.

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