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2. 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.

3. Carrara marble - Wikipedia

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   Carrara marble, or Luna marble (marmor lunense) to the Romans, is a type of white or blue-grey marble popular for use in sculpture and building decor. It has been quarried since Roman times in the mountains just outside the city of Carrara in the province of Massa and Carrara in the Lunigiana , the northernmost tip of modern-day Tuscany , Italy.

4. Vaison Diadumenos - Wikipedia

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   The statue known as the Vaison Diadumenos was discovered in the late nineteenth century in the Roman Theatre at Vaison-La-Romaine, department of Vaucluse, southern France. It was offered for sale to the Louvre, but the national museum refused to buy it on the grounds of the exorbitant price. It was later purchased by the British Museum in 1870 ...

5. Hermes of Andros - Wikipedia

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   Near the site where the statue of Hermes and the woman was found stood a shrine, probably for hero-worship, where a honorific inscription was found that mentioned Egnatia Maximilla and Publius Gleitius Gallus, benefactors of the city during the reign of Emperor Nero (around 65 AD), thus causing the two sculptures to be associated with them.

6. 1,800-year-old Roman statue discovered in parking lot

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   A Roman statue dating back almost 2,000 years has been discovered by construction workers building a parking lot in the United Kingdom. Digger driver Greg Crawley uncovered the marble head of a ...

7. 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 ...