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The Patrician Torlonia bust thought to be of Cato the Elder. Bust No. 535 of the Torlonia Collection, also called the Patrician Torlonia, is a marble bust, [1] sometimes said to portray Marcus Porcius Cato Censorius, though also noted as being of "an unknown Roman politician". [2]
Statue of Hestia Giustiniani (5th century BC), part of the collection The Torlonia Museum ( Italian : Museo Torlonia ; not identical with the Villa Torlonia on the Via Nomentana [ 1 ] ) was a museum in Rome , which housed the Torlonia Collection ( Collezione Torlonia ) of ancient sculptures.
In 1816, 269 statues from the collection assembled by the 17th-century art collector and aristocrat Vincenzo Giustiniani (1564–1637), were transferred to Giovannia Torlonia as collateral on a loan. After 1825, following Prince Vincenzo Giustiniani's failure to uphold the terms of his agreement, the Torlonias entered into a long legal dispute ...
The Patrician Torlonia bust, believed to be of Cato the Elder. 1st century BC The Orator , c. 100 BC , an Etrusco-Roman bronze statue depicting Aule Metele (Latin: Aulus Metellus), an Etruscan man wearing a Roman toga while engaged in rhetoric ; the statue features an inscription in the Etruscan alphabet
Boadicea and Her Daughters is a bronze sculptural group in London representing Boudica, queen of the Celtic Iceni tribe, who led an uprising in Roman Britain.It is located to the north side of the western end of Westminster Bridge, near Portcullis House and Westminster Pier, facing Big Ben and the Palace of Westminster across the road.
Statues, also known as Red Light, Green Light in North America, and Grandma's/Grandmother's Footsteps or Fairy Footsteps in the United Kingdom is a popular children's game, often played in different countries. There are variations of play throughout different regions of the world.
He was the builder of the Villa Torlonia in Rome, among other Palazzo Torlonia villas. He married Anna Maria Chiaveri née Schultheiss, a widow who came from a family of southern German merchants from the city of Donaueschingen. Leopoldo Torlonia, a grandson of Giovanni, was the Mayor of Rome from May 1882 to May 1887. [3]
Christopher Columbus Statue (1970, 1986, 1995) located at Columbus Plaza (W. Main Street and Lawrence Hill Rd.) Lackawanna. Bust of Christopher Columbus (1940) located at Bethlehem Park, Madison Ave. Lindenhurst. Columbus Monument (1991) 7-foot-tall monument [186] Mahopac. Christopher Columbus Statue (1992) located at Thompson & McAlpin Streets ...