The over-lifesize Medusa Rondanini, the best late Hellenistic or Augustan Roman marble copy of the head of Medusa, is rendered more humanized and beautiful...
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BC) Medusa column bases of Basilica Cistern in Constantinople. The "Rondanini Medusa", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena; later used...
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Gorgons (redirect from Head of Medusa)
century BC. The earliest example of a "beautiful" gorgoneion is the Medusa Rondanini (Fig. 19), which is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek original...
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Medusa. The statue was based freely to the Apollo Belvedere and the Medusa Rondanini. Napoleon, after his 1796 Italian Campaign, took the Apollo Belvedere...
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In the centre was again a gorgoneion that must have looked like the Rondanini Medusa since it is strongly inspired by it. He was surrounded by about thirty...
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sculpture. Through his agents, he managed to acquire such pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Aphaea temple...
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sculpture. Through his agents, he managed to acquire such pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Temple of Aphaea...
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(the State Antiquities Collections). Works on display include the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun and figures from the Temple of Aphaea on Aegina...
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stucco garlands and candelabras by Antonio Isopi. Reproductions of the Medusa Rondanini, Hermes Ludovisi, and the Medici Vase are present around the doors...
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Collection). King Ludwig I managed to acquire such famous pieces as the Medusa Rondanini, the Barberini Faun and the figures from the Temple of Aphaea on Aegina...
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wearing the Accademia di San Luca's cloak and holding a drawing of the Medusa Rondanini. The other people are, from left to right, the artist Gino De Dominicis...
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Horti Lamiani Dancing Maenad Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius Bernini's Medusa Resting Satyr Leaning Satyr Leda and the Swan The Spinario The Capitoline...
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his last works, the three piéades (the Palestrina, the Duomo and the Rondanini Pietà ), he completely abandoned the ideal of physical beauty, with distorted...
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