(part one): The "Old Man of Otricoli", from the mid-1st century BCE or the late Roman Republican period. (Wikipedia disputes this date and suggests it is a copy of an older bust and is from the reign of Tiberius, 14-37AD). It was displayed in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Montréal, as part of the recent "Torlonia Collection: Masterpieces of Roman Sculpture" exhibition that included 57 pieces of Roman sculpture selected from the Torlonia Collection in Italy. No one knows who the “Old Man” was, but it is an example of verism, an artistic style with the scars of old age and life carved unflinchingly into the marble. Only the head is original, the torso is a modern addition. There is something rather moving to encounter such a lifelike face two thousand years old as he really was, a complex individual, marked with the burdens and joys of a long life.