little help about this statue

[juliuzxd]

Hi, does anyone know who made this statue of aristotles?

http://www.biografiasyvidas.com/monografia/aristoteles/fotos/aristoteles_busto.jpg

thankyou very much

Juliuz

[losemygrip]

Why do you think it's Aristotle?

It seems to be cropped--would help to see the whole thing.

My guess is Italian 16-17th century. But it could even be Roman.

[condivi]

I have to say this doesn't look remotely 16th-17th century to me. My guess is that it's Roman....we probably don't know who made it.

[auvers-sur-oise]

That is an outdated research photograph taken from R.W. Livingstone's The Legacy of Greece, published in 1923. It appears there as fig. 7, between pages 176 and 177. The bust was discovered in the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, and Livingstone identifies its figure as Aristotle, and dates it to the 4th century. The bust is now held by the Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli, where it is known as Bust of Democritus, inventory number 5602.

[losemygrip]

Well, I did say it could even be Roman!