David Samuel Stern American, b. 1982
Woven Portrait of Julius Caesar (after Andrea Ferrucci's Julius Caesar, ca. 1512, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York) Version 2, 2021
Three photographs converted to red, green, and blue tonal ranges, printed on translucent vellum, physically cut and woven together by hand, backlit with 5000K light
24 x 21 x 1/8 in
61 x 53.3 x 0.3 cm
61 x 53.3 x 0.3 cm
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Commissioned by National Geographic in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. To make this portrait, artist David Samuel Stern photographed a bust of Caesar, circa 1512, at...
Commissioned by National Geographic in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
To make this portrait, artist David Samuel Stern photographed a bust of Caesar, circa 1512, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Three photos were converted to red, green, and blue tonal ranges, printed on translucent vellum, cut into strips, woven by hand, and then backlit to create this final image. “Our collective mental picture of Caesar is almost certainly not what he really looked like,” Stern says.
To make this portrait, artist David Samuel Stern photographed a bust of Caesar, circa 1512, at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Three photos were converted to red, green, and blue tonal ranges, printed on translucent vellum, cut into strips, woven by hand, and then backlit to create this final image. “Our collective mental picture of Caesar is almost certainly not what he really looked like,” Stern says.