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Divers rediscovered Titanic's lost bronze "Diana of Versailles" statue, highlighting ongoing ship decay and marking a key find since its last sighting in 1986.
The Diana of Versailles in the Louvre Galerie des Caryatides that was designed for it. The Diana of Versailles or Artemis, Goddess of the Hunt (French: Artémis, déesse de la chasse) is a slightly over-lifesize [1] marble statue of the Roman goddess Diana (Greek: Artemis) with a deer. It is now in the Musée du Louvre, Paris. [2]
The most coveted item was "Diana of Versailles," a two-foot-tall bronze statue from Titanic's first-class lounge, he said. The statue had last been photographed in 1986, and the odds of finding it ...
A replica statue of Diana of Versailles stood on the mantelpiece, with a large mirror above. [81] At the opposite end the wall curved and contained a wide mahogany bookcase which functioned as a lending library for first-class passengers.
Diana of Versailles. Leochares worked at the construction of the Mausoleum of Mausolos at Halicarnassus, one of the "Seven Wonders of the Ancient World".The Diana of Versailles is a Roman copy of his original (c. 325 BC).
The 2-foot bronze statue depicts the Roman goddess of wild animals, Diana. The statue was spotted in photos taken during a 1986 expedition, "but a tradition of secrecy around the Titanic wreck ...
Intertitle: [ Some survivors of Titanic’s crew ] Mid-shot of half a dozen men. Two wear White Star Line emblazoned jumpers. Close shot of a reporter interviewing a man with a cigarette, with another man and a horse behind him on the street. Intertitle: [ Quartermaster Hitchens of the Titanic who went down with the ship and was afterwards ...
RMS Titanic’s research team located a miniature replica of the “Diana of Versailles” statue that stood on the ship’s first-class lounge fireplace mantle which was last seen in 1986.