This head of Plato is 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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Head of Plato
Ancient Greece, 370 BCE
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