National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway
The Paus Trajan is a marble portrait head of the Roman emperor Trajan, who ruled from 98 to 117 AD. It is now part of the collection of the National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design in Oslo, Norway, and was part of the Paus collection that was donated to the museum's predecessor, the National Gallery, by papal chamberlain, art collector and count Christopher Tostrup Paus.[1]
It is made of fine crystalline white marble, and has a height 32.7 cm. It was reworked during Trajan's reign from an older portrait, possibly a portrait of Domitian (81–96 AD), and is a Decennalia type portrait of Trajan, one of around fifty surviving busts of him and one of several Decennalia portraits of him.[1]
The bust was acquired by Christopher Tostrup Paus who amassed the largest private collection of ancient Roman art in the Nordic countries. Paus spent several years in Rome where he was appointed a papal chamberlain and count. From 1918 he donated large parts of the collection to the National Gallery, with additional donations in the following years, including the Trajan portrait in 1923.[2][3][4] From 1923 to 2019 the portrait was on display on the first floor of the old National Gallery building, until being moved to the new National Museum building that opened in 2022. Samson Eitrem published a catalogue of the Paus collection and other ancient sculptures with a detailed description of the bust in 1927.[1]
The PausTrajan is a marble portrait head of the Roman emperor Trajan, who ruled from 98 to 117 AD. It is now part of the collection of the National Museum...
(1909), papal chamberlain and count Christopher Paus (1918), and Chr. Langaard (1922). Count Christopher Paus amassed one of the largest collections from...
and Peder Povelsson Paus (1590–1653), have long been known as the family's earliest certain ancestors. In his book Slekten Paus, S.H. Finne-Grønn traced...
The Paus collection (Norwegian: Paus-samlingen) is a collection of classical sculpture that mostly forms part of the National Museum of Norway, and previously...
the reign of Trajan. He died before 120 AD. His daughter Domitia Lucilla, was the mother of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. The New Pauly's Encyclopedia...
Domitian, he joined the Roman Senate, where he was until the reign of Emperor Trajan. He was known for his patronage of the poet Statius. Around 93 AD, his mother...
reign of the emperor Trajan. Only the arch’s footings have survived. Förtsch, Reinhard. (2006) "Arcus: [10] Domitiani." Brills New Pauly. Retrieved from...
Salian priesthood, an order of patrician youths dedicated to Mars. Emperor Trajan advanced his political career, resulting in Severus achieving the quaestorship...
once removed. Arrius Augur started the cursus honorum during the reign of Trajan, continuing into the reign of Hadrian, when he was elected consul in 121...
the future Roman Emperor Titus as well as the aunt of the future emperor Trajan. Marcia Furnilla came from a noble and distinguished family. She was from...
becoming secretary ab epistulis under the Emperors Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. He ended his career of civil servant becoming Praefectus vigilum. He was...
Domitian, Nerva and Trajan. In the Histories the scope has changed; Tacitus says that he will deal with the age of Nerva and Trajan at a later time. Instead...
1st century AD, during the reigns of the Emperors Domitian, Nerva, and Trajan. At the end of the 20th century, Géza Alföldy deciphered the text on the...
Alterthum, vol. iii. pt. 2, p. 354; Grotefend, in Pauly's Realencyklopädie, s. v. Legio. Bennett, Trajan: Optimus Princeps, p. 43 Paul M. M. Leunissen, Konsuln...
Aristophanes: Studies in Athenian Old Comedy. ISD LLC. p. 200. ISBN 9781910589595. Paus. 1.1.2, 26.4 Habicht, Christian (1998). Pausanias Guide to Ancient Greece...
Florus (circa 74 – 130 AD), a Roman historian, who lived in the time of Trajan and Hadrian and was also born in Africa. The introduction to a dialogue...
at the Baths of Trajan and later the Hadrianic domed vault of the Pantheon. In early 123, the augusta and widow of the emperor Trajan, Pompeia Plotina...
although he had abolished trials for majestas, were again banished by Trajan, and threatened with capital punishment in an edict of Constantine; but...
including the private houses of Trajan and Hadrian before they became emperors and of Lucius Licinius Sura, friend of Trajan who built the private Baths of...
John M G, 1999. Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora: From Alexander to Trajan (323 BCE–117 CE), University of California. John M. G. Barclay of the University...
who flourished during the reign of the emperors Vespasian, Domitian, and Trajan. He was appointed to a series of imperial offices, both military and civil...
subsequent emperors to "be more fortunate than Augustus and better than Trajan". Augustus was intelligent, decisive, and a shrewd politician, but he was...
this elite woman makes it possible to date this painting to the reign of Trajan (98–117). Walters Art Museum Depiction of a woman with a ringlet hairstyle...
constructed by Apollodorus of Damascus between 103 and 105 CE, directed by Trajan, modern Serbia and Romania. At Esztergom and Štúrovo, the Danube separates...
proconsular governor of Africa Manius Acilius Glabrio - consul and colleague of Trajan Manius Acilius Glabrio Gnaeus Cornelius Severus - senator, consul, and proconsular...
invasion was thus eventually stopped by Philip the Arab's general, Decius Trajan, the future emperor, at the city of Marcianopolis, which had been under...
famous Hispani (plural of Hispanus) and Hispaniensis were the emperors Trajan, Marcus Aurelius, Hadrian, Theodosius I and Magnus Maximus, the poets Marcus...
Dandamayev, M.A. (1999). "Artabanus". Encyclopædia Iranica. Routledge & Kegan Pau. Retrieved 25 February 2009. Dandamayev, Muhammad A. (2000). "Achaemenid...
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