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Alberto Giacometti's L'Homme au doigt was auctioned for $141.3 million at Christie's in May 2015, the highest price for any sculpture at auction. [1] Giacometti's L'Homme qui marche I had previously achieved the highest price of any sculpture when it was auctioned by Sotheby's in February 2010. Selling for US$104.3 million, it ranks amongst the ...
Roman copies of 5th-century BC Greek sculptures (24 P) Pages in category "Roman copies of Greek sculptures" The following 22 pages are in this category, out of 22 total.
It is 1-1.5 mm thick, and weighs around 980 g (or three Roman pounds). To compare the value and purchasing power at that time, the weight corresponds to 135 Roman gold coins ( aurei ), each weighing 7.25 g, although in the second century AD a horse would cost 16 gold coins and an estate cost 1300 gold coins.
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.
The Dying Gaul, also called The Dying Galatian [1] (Italian: Galata Morente) or The Dying Gladiator, is an ancient Roman marble semi-recumbent statue now in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. It is a copy of a now lost Greek sculpture from the Hellenistic period (323–31 BC) thought to have been made in bronze . [ 2 ]
Bulgarian archaeologists stumbled upon unexpected treasure this week during a dig in an ancient Roman sewer - a well-preserved, marble statue depicting the Greek god Hermes. The discovery of the 6 ...
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 Golden Bust of Marcus Aurelius was discovered on April 19, 1939 in Avenches, in western Switzerland.Measuring 33.5 centimetres (13.2 in) high and weighing 1.59 kilograms (3.5 lb), it is the largest known metal bust of a Roman emperor and is considered one of the most important archaeological finds in Switzerland.