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  2. Roman sculpture - Wikipedia

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    Religious art was also a major form of Roman sculpture. A central feature of a Roman temple was the cult statue of the deity, who was regarded as "housed" there (see aedes). Although images of deities were also displayed in private gardens and parks, the most magnificent of the surviving statues appear to have been cult images.

  3. Roman art - Wikipedia

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    The art of Ancient Rome, and the territories of its Republic and later Empire, includes architecture, painting, sculpture and mosaic work.Luxury objects in metal-work, gem engraving, ivory carvings, and glass are sometimes considered to be minor forms of Roman art, [1] although they were not considered as such at the time.

  4. Dionysus, called Narcissus - Wikipedia

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    Dionysus, called Narcissus (Italian: Dioniso, così detto Narciso) is a bronze ancient Roman statuette, created between the 1st century BC. and 1st century AD e.. It was found during excavations in Pompeii in 1862. The statuette is believed to be a Roman copy of an ancient Greek original from the 4th century BC. [1]

  5. Laocoön and His Sons - Wikipedia

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    The statue is very likely the same one that was praised in the highest terms by Pliny the Elder, the main Roman writer on art, who attributed it to Greek sculptors but did not say when it was created. [3] The figures in the statue are nearly life-sized, with the entire group measuring just over 2 m (6 ft 7 in) in height.

  6. Colossus of Nero - Wikipedia

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    Location of the Colossus (in red near the center) on a map of Rome. The Colossus of Nero (Colossus Neronis) was a 30-metre (98 ft) bronze statue that the Emperor Nero (37–68 AD) created in the vestibule of his Domus Aurea, the imperial villa complex which spanned a large area from the north side of the Palatine Hill, across the Velian ridge to the Esquiline Hill in Rome.

  7. Colossus of Constantine - Wikipedia

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    The Colossus of Constantine (Italian: Statua Colossale di Costantino I) was a many times life-size acrolithic early-4th-century statue depicting the Roman emperor Constantine the Great (c. 280–337), commissioned by himself, which originally occupied the west apse of the Basilica of Maxentius on the Via Sacra, near the Forum Romanum in Rome.

  8. Statues discovered in a Tuscan spring could rewrite the ... - AOL

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    A trove of bronze statues that archeologists say could rewrite the history of Italy's transition to the Roman Empire have been discovered in an ancient Tuscan thermal spring.. Italy's Ministry of ...

  9. Pasquino - Wikipedia

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    Pasquino in 1550 by Nicolas Béatrizet. The origin of the name, "Pasquino", remains obscure. By the mid-sixteenth century it was reported that the name "Pasquino" derived from a nearby tailor who was renowned for his wit and intellect; [4] speculation had it that his legacy was carried on through the statue, in "the honor and everlasting remembrance of the poor tailor".

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