When Lynley McAlpine was growing up in Aylesbury, Sask., she never imagined her love of history would make her an international media star.
McAlpine, who is a Roman art expert, has been working since 2018 on finding out more about aThe rare find is now finally on display in an exhibit curated by McAlpine at the in San Antonio, Texas, where she is the Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellow. And McAlpine’s phone has been running hot ever since.
The bust — produced in Rome sometime between late 1st century BC to the early 1st century AD — was once housed in a German museum decades ago, after being acquired by the Bavarian king Ludwig I, who displayed it in a full-scale replica of a home in Pompeii in Aschaffenburg, Germany. McAlpine has a Ph.D. in Roman art and archeology from the University of Michigan and worked on researching the portrait’s history, both in ancient Rome and in 19th and 20th centuries Germany. She is also the curator for the exhibition displaying the bust at SAMA.
McAlpine attended Craik School in Saskatchewan, where history “was always my favourite subject”, and then majored in Classical Studies at Western University in London, Ontario. The discovery was just as exciting for Young, who is often on the hunt for rare art pieces and who took the 52 lb marble bust outside for a closer look under some natural light, she told the New York Times.
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