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Julius Caesar
Barent Dronrijp (ca. –na 1)
after 1674
- Medium
- lead (metal), sandstone
- Classification
- tuinbeeld
- Dimensions
- height 121 cm (incl. sandstone socle)
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
About this work
The series of twelve marble busts from which these four figures were cast represented the first twelve emperors of Rome. Although the Dutch word ‘keizer’ derives from Caesar’s name, he was never an emperor. His adoptive son Augustus was the first Roman emperor. Yet because Caesar had assumed absolute power, he is generally included in the series.
