The Glyptotek’s large collection of Roman portraits, mainly aquired by the founder of the museum, the brewer Carl Jacobsen, in the decennia around 1900, comprises all the powerful and famous men and women of Rome, as well as some of the anonymous Romans, portrayed for official or private use.
In this first volume we meet Pompey the Great, as well as the Julio-Claudian family, who occupied the imperial throne of Rome until the death of Nero in 68 A.D.
