Wednesday, April 22, 2009

79. Visit three exhibits at an art museum (1 out of 3 exhibits)

I visited Emory's Michael C. Carlos Museum in Atlanta. I had to do a paper on one of the art pieces there for my art history class.

I wound up choosing this sculpture of the second Roman Emperor - Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus, otherwise known as simply Tiberius. Apparently, by the end of his life Tiberius wasn't liked very much. According to Annals written by Publius Cornelius Tacitus around 56 CE, when the crowd found out that Tiberius had been strangled to death by his own grandson the crowd cheered.

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