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Pages in category "Sculptures of women in Italy" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
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 ...
The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa (also known as Saint Teresa in Ecstasy; Italian: L'Estasi di Santa Teresa or Santa Teresa in estasi) is a sculptural altarpiece group in white marble set in an elevated aedicule in the Cornaro Chapel of the church of Santa Maria della Vittoria in Rome. [1]
Pauline Bonaparte as Venus Victrix ("Venus Victorious") is a semi-nude life-size reclining neo-Classical portrait sculpture by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova.Reviving the ancient Roman artistic traditions of portrayals of mortal individuals in the guise of the gods, and of the beautiful female form reclining on a couch (as most often seen in reclining portrayals of Hermaphroditi), it was ...
The statue is housed in the Galleria Borghese in Rome, along with several other examples of the artist's most important early works. The sculpture depicts the climax of the story of Apollo and Daphne ( Phoebus and Daphne ), as written in Ovid 's Metamorphoses , wherein the nymph Daphne escapes Apollo's advances by transforming into a laurel tree.
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The statue represents the Triveneto, or the three modern regions of Veneto, Trentino-Alto Adige, and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. At the time the Vittoriano was built, in fact, only Veneto and most of Friuli were already Italian, while Trentino, Alto Adige, Venezia Giulia, and a small part of Friuli were part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
Sociologist Emiliana De Blasio, of Rome's LUISS University, told CBS Saturday Morning that for Italians, time spent cooking is akin to "religion." It also provides a way for families and loved ...