Platonism

Plato (Silanion Bust)

Sculpture (Roman marble copy after Greek bronze original) · After Silanion (Greek sculptor, c. 370 BCE original; Roman copy c. 1st century CE)

This marble bust of Plato held in the Capitoline Museums in Rome is the canonical portrait type of the founder of the Academy. The original was a bronze statue commissioned around 370 BCE by the Persi