Comment on Thorvaldsen's Small Silver Head - A Ruined Tondo Portrait
[The author’s note in the text] W. Helbig, Führer durch die öffentlichen Sammlungen klassischer Altertümer in Rom, Tübingen 1969, No. 2146. I am indebted to Prof. Dr. K. Fittschen for sending me photographs taken by his wife, Gisela Fittschen-Badura, and for permission to publish them. For the clipeus motif, see K. Schauenburg, ‘Die Sphinx unter dem Clipeus’ ArchAnz 1975, p. 280-295, cf. also H. Brandenburg, ‘Meerwesensarkophage und Clipeusmotiv’ Jdl 82 (1967) p. 195-245.
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