Comment on Thorvaldsen's Small Silver Head - A Ruined Tondo Portrait
[The author’s note in the text] There are several examples of such ancestral masks represented on sepulchral monuments, see A.N. Zadoks-Josephus Jitta, Ancestral Portraiture in Rome, Amsterdam 1932, Pl. IV-V. The form can also be transferred entirely to stone, see W. Trillmich, Das Torlonia-Mädchen [= Abh Göttingen Fig. 3 No. 99), Göttingen 1976.
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