Hén through the eyes of sculptors, painters, and craftsmen across the ages
Roman marble head, possibly Plotinus, 3rd century CE, Museo Ostiense, Ostia Antica.
Marble bust, possibly Plotinus, 3rd century CE, Vatican Museums, Braccio Nuovo.
Roman copy of Silanion’s portrait of Plato, original c. 370 BC, Luni marble, Capitoline Museums (Centrale Montemartini).
Herm bust inscribed “Parmenides,” discovered at Velia, 1st century CE (possibly based on a portrait of Metrodorus).
Raphael, *The School of Athens*, 1509, fresco, Vatican Museums; Plato (center left, pointing upward) embodies the ideal Form of the Good / One.
