Patrician Carrying Portrait Heads
1st century

This is at a funerary event and is a lifesize image made of marble showing a man holding two busts of his ancestors, maybe his father and grandfather. The heads are monmumentalized and permanent. This was a custom of the patrician families of Rome.

This is very different than Greek sculpture because the heads are actual portraits and retain all the imperfections that the people might have had. They are examples of Realism.