A Texas shopper bought a $35 bust at Goodwill. Experts say it’s actually an ancient Roman portrait of one of Julius Caesar’s greatest enemies:
A Texas Shopper Bought a $35 Bust at Goodwill. Experts Say It’s Actually an Ancient Roman Portrait of One of Julius Caesar’s Greatest EnemiesTaking home the bust after purchasing it at the Goodwill in Austin. Image courtesy of Laura Young.
Priced at just $34.99, the work was a steal. But Young, who has long had an eye for overlooked treasures through her company Temple of Vintage, noted its worn features and natural gravitas. She began speaking to specialists from museums and auction houses and eventually Jörg Deterling, a consultant at Sotheby’s, was able to identify the bust as an antique from the Julio-Claudian era.
The earliest known record of the portrait is in the 1833 inventory of King Ludwig I of Bavaria. It was one of the objects displayed in his Pompejanum, a full-scale replica of a Pompeii villa built for enthusiasts to study ancient culture. The city of Aschaffenburg, where the villa is still located, was heavily bombed during the Second World War, and when it was restored in the 1960s, the bust was not recovered. It is most likely that it had been taken home by a U.S.
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