Roman legion from Hadrian's reign. It is likely that the York and Louvre heads were images of Hadrian contemporary with the Townley bust, with the York...
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sources interpret the ear-creases on later portrayals (such as the Townley Hadrian) as signs of coronary artery disease. He was buried at Puteoli, near...
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shoemaker Xanthippos Townley Caryatid Townley Discobolus by Myron, from Hadrian's Villa Townley Greyhounds Townley Sphinx Townley Vase, from the Villa...
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The Townley Antinous is a marble portrait head of the Greek youth Antinous, the boyfriend or lover of the Roman Emperor Hadrian, wearing an ivy wreath...
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Discobolus (redirect from Townley Discobolus)
The English connoisseur Charles Townley paid Jenkins £400 for the statue, which arrived at the semi-public gallery Townley commissioned in Park Street, London...
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Antinous (category Hadrian)
lover of the Roman emperor Hadrian. Following his premature death before his 20th birthday, Antinous was deified on Hadrian's orders, being worshipped in...
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Townley Antinous, a portrait head of Antinous wearing an ivy wreath Antinous (constellation), an obsolete constellation, originally named by Hadrian after...
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Charles Townley in His Sculpture Gallery, also known as Charles Townley at His Library at no. 7 Park Street in Westminster, is an oil-on-canvas painting...
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of the Roman emperor Hadrian but later died in the Nile under mysterious circumstances. Stricken by the death of Antinous, Hadrian, who was an admirer...
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helmet and other items were bought from Walton by Townley, who lived nearby at Towneley Hall. Townley was a well-known collector of Roman sculpture and...
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Antinous Mondragone (section Antinous and Hadrian)
Capitoline Antinous Statue of Antinous (Delphi) Townley Antinous Antinous, the lover of Emperor Hadrian, drowned in the Nile that year. Can be read about...
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sculpted between 130 and 137 CE. Antinous was the lover to Roman Emperor Hadrian; the emperor who, after Antinous's death, perpetuated the image of Antinous...
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London, British Museum (Townley Pericles) Inventory Number GR 1805.7-3.91 (Cat. Sculpture 549), found in the Villa of Hadrian, height 0.48m, Inscription...
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less than a town. The nucleus of the villa was constructed in the time of Hadrian.[citation needed] The villa included extensive thermae fed by its own aqueduct...
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works of art he recovered to his British clients, most notably to Charles Townley, to whom the painter wrote: "the most valuable acquisition a man of refined...
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and the Pantheon in Rome, and at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. Another Roman example, found on the Via Appia, is the Townley Caryatid. In Early Modern times...
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Dick Emery Paul Eddington as Col. Downs (1 episode) Prunella Scales Toke Townley Richard Waring Amanda Barrie as Muriel (2 episodes) Melvyn Hayes Brian...
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the Vatican Museums, British Museum (found at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli, and owned by Charles Townley) and Altes Museum. Kresilas also created the wounded...
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Hamilton uncovered an example in the swamp ground called the Pantanello at Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli in 1769, he hesitated between calling it a Theseus or...
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Capitoline 'Antinous' is a marble statue of a young nude male found at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli, during the time when Conte Giuseppe Fede was undertaking...
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(Ὅμηρος, Hómēros). Another tradition from the days of the Roman emperor Hadrian says Epicaste (daughter of Nestor) and Telemachus (son of Odysseus) were...
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Jenkins, whose pre-eminent client was Charles Townley; Townley's collection is at the British Museum. Townley introduced Albacini to Henry Blundell whose...
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(partially restored) vase with Bacchic ornament that was discovered at Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli about 1771 by Gavin Hamilton, a Scottish painter-antiquarian...
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As early as 1724 he started to buy up parcels of land on the site of Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli (which had become divided up among a multitude of owners)...
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Charles Townley, 1737–1805" Minerva Magazine May/June 2005, in connection with a British Museum exhibition celebrating the bicentennial of the Townley purchase...
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discovered during work near the Roman Baths. Townley Discobolus and Lansdowne Heracles are discovered at Hadrian's Villa in Tivoli, Italy. Bones presumed to...
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several notable contemporary scholars, such as Sir John Soane and Charles Townley, who encouraged his studies and provided him with rare antiquities. James...
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Hamilton, Gavin; Smith, A.H. (1901). "Gavin Hamilton's Letters to Charles Townley". The Journal of Hellenic Studies. 21: 316. doi:10.2307/623878. JSTOR 623878...
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George Hornby 1865: Thomas Greene 1872: Thomas Batty Addison 1874: Robert Townley Parker 1879: John Wilson-Patten, 1st Baron Winmarleigh 1892: Sir William...
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Stratford Hoard Strangford Apollo Tomb of Payava Townley collection Antinous Caryatid Discobolus Hadrian Vase Venus Uerdingen Hoard Vaison Diadumenos Warren...
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