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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]
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
A marble workshop copy of the Louis XIV is to be seen in the Orangerie at Versailles. Similarly his equestrian statue Louis XIV erected in 1713 in Place Bellecour, Lyon was destroyed by the revolutionaries; [ 2 ] however the bronze figures from its socle, the river gods of the Rhône and the Saône , which flow together at Lyon, were spared and ...
A “Diana of Versailles” replica statue that one stood on the fireplace mantel in the Titanic’s first-class lounge has been spotted for the first time since 1986 at the Titanic wreck (RMS ...
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).