Rome 2017: (9) The Head of Lucius Junius Brutus

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The head of Brutus reveals the story of Rome within a single glimpse of his eyes. This sculpture is one of the most powerful cultural landscapes that reveal justice and the necessary violence that often plagued Rome. The pain that Brutus felt when his pure, revered wife was raped is shown through the darkness in his eyes. Not only was his wife demoralized, but his own view of human nature was destroyed with the honorable suicide of his wife. The power and strength revealed in his jaw and chin signify the endurance of his fighting on behalf of justice to preserve what Rome needed and ruin the corrupt that had quickly formed. The wrinkles around his face

reveal the pain that it caused him to take the pain of the Republic upon himself to fight for what was needed. Brutus’ sculpture is understood by many scholars as the most significant cultural landscape that reveals the pain, yet story of redemption faced by Rome. Although the rape of Lucretia was brutal, the progression that happened in the following years through the leadership of Brutus was necessary to reform and modify Rome. There is signification in the name Brutus as he was involved in a brutal.