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  2. Bust of Antinous (Gatchina Palace) - Wikipedia

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    The bust of Antinous in the White Hall of the Great Gatchina Palace is an ancient Roman marble sculptural portrait of Antinous, the favorite and beloved of the Roman emperor Hadrian. The bust was created after the tragic death of the young man in 130 as one of many similar portraits as part of his posthumous cult. he sculpture was found by ...

  3. Marble sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Lorenzo Bartolini, (Italian, 1777–1850), La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Marble sculpture. Marble has been the preferred material for stone monumental sculpture since ancient times, with several advantages over its more common geological "parent" limestone, in particular the ability to absorb light a small distance into the surface before ...

  4. Antinous Farnese - Wikipedia

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    Antinous is a free standing marble sculpture in the round. The philhellenic elements of this statue are drawn from its visual style, while the Farnese Antinous was sculpted in the Roman period, Antinous emulates an athlete in the Classical Greek style. [8] Specifically, this sculpture is emulated after Polykleitos' statue Doryphoros.

  5. Antinous-Dionysus (Hermitage) - Wikipedia

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    The Bust of Antinous-Dionysus in the Hermitage is an ancient Roman colossal marble sculptural portrait of Antinous, the favorite and beloved of the Roman emperor Hadrian. He is depicted as the god Dionysus with a bronze vine wreath on his head. The bust is believed to have been found at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli.

  6. Farnese Hercules - Wikipedia

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    The heroically-scaled Hercules is one of the most famous sculptures of antiquity, [5] and has fixed the image of the mythic hero in the European imagination. Right hand behind the back with the apples. The Farnese Hercules is a massive marble statue, following a lost original that was cast in bronze through a method called lost wax casting.

  7. Apollo Belvedere - Wikipedia

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    The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) [1] is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity.. The work has been dated to mid-way through the 2nd century A.D. and is considered to be a Roman copy of an original bronze statue created between 330 and 320 B.C. by the Greek sculptor Leochares. [2]

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