For the ages
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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3:08pm January 05 2016
He may not have been a model of good government, but the Roman emperor Caligula (12–41 CE) secured for himself a place in history—and in the Yale University Art Gallery, where his 2,000-year-old marble portrait bust is nicely framed by a Chapel Street window.
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