Actor with his Right Arm Extended in the Walters Art Museum, September 2009

Actor with Right Arm Extended


Creator: Roman (Artist)

Period: ca. 1st century

Medium: cast bronze (Metal)

Accession Number: 54.746

Measurements: 5 7/8 x 4 5/16 x 3 3/4 in. (15 x 11 x 9.5 cm)

The grimacing face drawn into a grimace, with broad mouth, snub nose, and deep furrows across the forehead indicate that the figure is an actor. He wears the clothing of a slave- a short tunic tied over one shoulder and a broad belt circling his exaggeratedly twisted lower torso. Slaves were favorite characters in Roman comedy, as they had been in Greek theater.

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