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  2. Bargello - Wikipedia

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    Mostly built in the 13th century, since 1865 it has housed the Museo Nazionale del Bargello, a national art museum. It is the primary national collection for Italian Renaissance sculpture, of which its collection of Florentine works is unequalled, and for the decorative arts of Florence, especially from the Renaissance period. There are also ...

  3. Italian Renaissance sculpture - Wikipedia

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    His second, bronze, David is deservedly one of the most famous sculptures of the period, and the first free-standing nude statue of the Renaissance. [149] David , the biblical giant-killer, was a symbol of Florence, and a bronze by Verrocchio was another Medici commission in the 1470s, followed by Michelangelo's famous marble statue early in ...

  4. Paul R. Evans - Wikipedia

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    Paul R. Evans II (20 May 1931 – 7 March 1987), known as Paul Evans, was an American-born furniture designer, sculptor, and artist, who is famous for his contributions to American furniture design and the American Craft movement of the 1970s, and with his work with the influential American manufacturer Directional Furniture.

  5. List of works in the Louvre - Wikipedia

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    Sculpture (Greek) Pythokritos (?) [1] Apollo of Piombino: Sculpture (Greek) Diana of Versailles: Sculpture (Greek) Las Incantadas: Sculpture (Roman) Dying Slave: Sculpture Michelangelo [2] Virgin and Child from the Sainte-Chapelle: Sculpture (Ivory) Apollo Sauroctonos (Apollo Lizard-killer) Sculpture (Roman) Marcellus as Hermes Logios ...

  6. Farnese Bull - Wikipedia

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    The group was unearthed in 1546 during excavations at gymnasium of the Roman Baths of Caracalla, commissioned by Pope Paul III in the hope of finding ancient sculptures to adorn the Palazzo Farnese, the Farnese family's palatial residence in Rome. This sculpture is dated to the Severian period (A.D. 222-235). [3]

  7. National Archaeological Museum, Naples - Wikipedia

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    The museum hosts extensive collections of Greek and Roman antiquities. Their core is from the Farnese Collection, which includes a collection of engraved gems (including the Farnese Cup, a Ptolemaic bowl made of sardonyx agate and the most famous piece in the "Treasure of the Magnificent", and is founded upon gems collected by Cosimo de' Medici and Lorenzo il Magnifico in the 15th century) and ...

  8. Category:Sculptures in Italy - Wikipedia

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    Sculptures in Italy by collection (12 C, ... Sculptures in Italy by type (4 C) Statues in Italy (2 C, 33 P) A. Animal sculptures in ... Pages in category "Sculptures ...

  9. Palazzo Farnese - Wikipedia

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    For generations, the room with Herculean frescoes accommodated the famous Greco-Roman antique sculpture known as the Farnese Hercules. Other works from the family collection of classical sculpture were also housed in the palace. One of the vault and ceiling fresco by Annibale Carracci is Galleria Farnese, an art gallery. According to Ann ...