Anonymous RomansThere are a plethora of survivals of Male Nude Art from Anonymous Romans. Though the Romans appear to have been more modest than the Greeks, this is largely through a persistent filtering of survivals of Roman Nude Male Art. Here are only a few examples of surviving pieces:
First, a mosaic which shows a nude male on the left.
 Second, an anonymous nude male torso from the First Century BCE
 Third, a very famous nude male statue of Germanicus, the adopted son of the first emperor of Rome, Augustus
 Fourth, the famous nude statue of Antinous, the beloved of the emperor Hadrian. When the young man died, ostensibly as a sacrifice so that the emperor would live, Hadrian as pontifex maximus had him deified and ordered that countless statues be made of the Beloved God. This particular statue is at the Museum at Delphi where it was discovered in the Nineteenth Century.
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