#marble busts

[thepastisalreadywritten]

The Veiled Virgin was created by Italian sculptor, Giovanni Strazza (1818–1875), in Rome during the 1850s.

The statue appears translucent but is made completely out of Carrara marble, a material derived from Tuscany and used frequently by Italian Renaissance artists and ancient Roman builders.

In 1856, the statue was transported to Newfoundland where it was received by Bishop John Thomas Mullock (27 September 1807 – 26 March 1869).

In his diary, he wrote:

"Received safely from Rome, a beautiful statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary in marble, by Strazza. The face is veiled, and the figure and features are all seen. It is a perfect gem of art."

[drearydreamypoetry]

day 19! victorian manors with gargoyles and balconies and marble busts of roman emperors and roof tiles slick with rainwater... need i say any more?

[ephimeralijo]

||Achilles come down||

@scratchedbedpost

[xtruss]

A Roman Bust of Alexander the Great is on display at the Musei Capitolini in Rome, Italy. Travelers can explore the world of the fourth-century-B.C. Macedonian warrior king at a new museum and archaeological sites in northern Greece. Photograph By Stefano Baldini/Bridgeman Images

Ancient Pottery is displayed like fine art at the new Polycentric Museum of Aigai in Northern Greece. Photograph By Alexander Poeschel/Imagebroker/Alamy

Marble Bust of Agrippina, first century A.D., from the Naples National Archaeological Museum. She didn’t play by the rules: This Roman empress was a master strategist. If she were a man, Agrippina (Pictured above) might have been one of the greatest. But the great-granddaughter of Augustus gathered enemies with her bare-knuckled move to power, and was later done in by the one man she sought to save. DEA/Album

[dillyfirestarter]

Busts of a Black man and Black woman, Wallace Collection, London.

[reblogged-art-that-liked]

Ferdinando de Medici

[trulygreatadventure]

[canonburyantiquesuk]

Antique Napolean III Mantle Clock Marble Ormolu Clocks

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