Caryatids at the Science and Industry building, David Bearden.
AN IMPORTANT OVER-LIFESIZE FRENCH MARBLE FIGURE OF PENELOPE, ENTITLED ‘BONNE RENOMMEE’
BY CHARLES ADRIEN PROSPER D'EPINAY (1836-1914), PARIS, CIRCA 1880
Demeter (Ceres) Ludovisi. Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps (Roma, Museo nazionale romano, Palazzo Altemps)
Coarse marble. Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek model of the 5th—4th centuries BCE.
Bertel Thorvaldsen (1768-1844)
Clodius Albinus, Latin: Decimus Clodius Septimius Albinus Augustus; born Hadrumetum, Africa Province (Sousse), Tunisia, ca. 150 – February 19, 197. Was a Roman usurper proclaimed emperor by the legions in Britain and Hispania after the murder of Pertinax in 193, known as "Year of the Five Emperors", and who proclaimed himself emperor again in 196, before his final defeat the following year. Albinus was a severe and often cruel commander, and he has been called the Catiline of his time.
Clothing in Ancient Greece - What Did the Ancient Greeks Wear?
Clothing in Ancient Greece didn’t change much during time. No clothes have survived from this period butt there are descriptions and artistic depiction of how it looked like. Although we thing that most of the clothing in Ancient Greece was white, they were of elaborate design and of bright colors.
Roma/Itália-2011
Antinous as Silvanus (god of woods and fields), harvesting grapes, marble relief, 130–138 AD, from Torre del Padiglione, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome
Work of Antonianus of Aphrodisia. 130-138 AD. From the area of Torre del Padiglione, between Anzio and Lanuvio. Found in 1907.
Clio
Clio (by Mark Cartwright) -- A Roman sculpture of unknown date depicting Clio the Muse of history. (Vatican Museums, Rome).
Bust of Antoninus Pius
Bust of Antoninus Pius (by Mark Cartwright) -- A marble bust of Roman emperor Antoninus Pius, r. 138-161 CE. (The Vatican Museums, Rome).
Ephebe Youth Bronze Head Hellenistic Sculpture
Ephebe Youth Bronze Head Hellenistic Sculpture. Original: State Collection of Antiquities and Glyptotek, München. Roman, for Christ's birth was a model of the 4th Century BC
Zerafet
Statue probably of Marcus Aurelius, erected in the east monopteral naiskos of the Nymphaeum of Herodes Atticus at Olympia, dating from between 149 and 153 AD (posthumous), Olympia Archaeological Museum, Greece
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Hera
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