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The Colossus of the Naxians is a kouros statue made of Naxian marble which was about 9 metres high, [1] now located in the Museum on Delos and originally from one of the islands of the Cyclades. The colossus is an example of archaic monumental sculpture and dates to the end of the seventh century BC.
Statue of a Naxian marble Kouros found at Ancient Thera and on display in the National Archaeological Museum Athens. Naxian marble is a large-crystaled white marble which is quarried from the Cycladic Island of Naxos in Greece. It was among the most significant types of marble for ancient Greece and it continues to be quarried in modern times.
The monument was made entirely of marble and reached 12.45 meters in height. The monument created awe to the visitors and constituted a typical example of Naxian sculpture in its peak period, i.e. in the sixth century B.C. On the base there was an inscription dated to 328-327 B.C., renewing the promanteia for the Naxians:
List of paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat; List of paintings by Frédéric Bazille; List of paintings by Arnold Böcklin; List of paintings by Hieronymus Bosch; List of paintings by Sandro Botticelli; List of works by François Boucher; List of paintings by Eugène Boudin; List of paintings by Valentin de Boulogne; List of paintings by Ford ...
The Reich began to collect and auction countless pieces of art—for example, "on June 30, 1939 a major auction took place at the elegant Grand Hotel National in the Swiss resort town of Lucerne". [27] All of the paintings and sculptures had recently been on display in museums throughout Germany.
This is the list of the Hermitage paintings acquired by Andrew W. Mellon during the Soviet sale of Hermitage paintings in 1930–1931 and donated to the National Gallery of Art. [ 1 ] Year
Religious subjects dominated their output, and two major commissions allowed them to attempt a revival of the medieval art of fresco painting. The first was a fresco series completed in Rome for the Casa Bartholdy (1816–17; moved to the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin), a collaborative project by the Nazarenes that "marks the beginning of the ...
The painting and the entire collection of the Czartoryski family in Warsaw were confiscated in 1942, brought to Austria and probably stolen there by American military personnel after the end of the war. In 1949 it came into the possession of the VMFA. The VMFA started an inventory review in 1998 and identified the painting as looted art.