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    The Marble Faun: Or, The Romance of Monte Beni, also known by the British title Transformation, was the last of the four major romances by Nathaniel Hawthorne...
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    Maenad and Fauns, 1902–1912, by Isobel Lilian Gloag. Young Faun, 1902, by Franz Stuck. Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1860) romance The Marble Faun is set in Italy...
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    The life-size ancient but much restored marble statue known as the Barberini Faun, Fauno Barberini or Drunken Satyr is now in the Glyptothek in Munich...
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  • Jerry “The Marble Faun” Torre (b. 1955) is an American sculptor. He is best known for his appearance in the 1975 independent documentary films Grey Gardens...
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    Hawthorne grew a bushy mustache. The family returned to The Wayside in 1860, and that year saw the publication of The Marble Faun, his first new book in seven...
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    Grey Gardens (category The Hamptons, New York in popular culture)
    2002 at the age of 84. Jerry Torre, the teenage handyman shown in the documentary (nicknamed "The Marble Faun" by "Little Edie"), was sought by the filmmakers...
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    described and admired in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance The Marble Faun, and is on display at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. Näckrosen...
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    Resting Satyr (category Sculptures in the Capitoline Museums)
    novel, The Marble Faun, centers on Donatello, a man who is believed to be a descendant of Praxiteles’ Marble Faun due to his uncanny resemblance to the sculpture...
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    The House of the Faun (Italian: Casa del Fauno), constructed in the 2nd century BC during the Samnite period (180 BC), was a grand Hellenistic palace...
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  • title for The Marble Faun, a novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne "The Transformation" (The Amazing World of Gumball), an episode of the British-American animated...
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    Tarpeian Rock (category Topography of the ancient city of Rome)
    lions: "Those who are thrown from the Tarpeian Rock are given solid, heavy food." In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun, a character is murdered by another...
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    In The Marble Faun, author Nathaniel Hawthorne contrasted the wine-making in Italy with the cider-making process of "New England vintages, where the big...
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    Head of a Faun is a lost sculpture by Italian Renaissance master Michelangelo, dating from c. 1489. His first known work of sculpture in marble, it was...
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    Satyr (category Wikipedia articles incorporating citation to the NSRW)
    Victorian moral sensibilities. In the novel The Marble Faun (1860) by the American author Nathaniel Hawthorne, the Italian count Donatello is described...
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    novel The Marble Faun (chapter 21). Mark Twain visited it in the summer of 1867 and wrote in his 1869 book The Innocents Abroad (chapter 28): "The reflection...
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    chooses in the end to return "home" as the best place to be. An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia cites Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun and "The Great Stone...
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    Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children is a marble sculpture by Italian artists Gian Lorenzo Bernini and his father Pietro Bernini. It was executed in 1616...
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    William Wetmore Story (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    Hawthorne's 1860 romance, The Marble Faun, and is on display in New York, NY at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Gallery 700. Another work, the Angel of Grief,...
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    Miriam (given name) (category Articles needing the year an event occurred from April 2017)
    main character in Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Marble Faun (1860) Miriam Rooth in Henry James's novel The Tragic Muse (1890) Miriam Leveirs in D.H. Lawrence's...
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    Beatrice Cenci (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    prominently in Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Marble Faun (1860). The book's two principal female characters, Hilda and Miriam, debate the nature and extent of Beatrice's...
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    Malluch, decide to build the catacomb. In the novel The Marble Faun by Nathaniel Hawthorne, chapters 3 and 4 describe a visit to the catacomb. As it was published...
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    The Goat Amalthea with the Infant Jupiter and a Faun is the earliest known work by the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini. Produced sometime between 1609...
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    Harriet Hosmer (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    in his novel The Marble Faun, and Henry James called them a "sisterhood of American ‘lady sculptors'." As Hosmer is now considered the most famous female...
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    William Faulkner (category Deaths by horse-riding accident in the United States)
    small printings, The Marble Faun (1924), and A Green Bough (1933), and a collection of mystery stories, Knight's Gambit (1949). The peacefullest words...
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    Benjamin Paul Akers (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from The BDA (1906))
    work of the protagonist, Kenyon, in his novel The Marble Faun, acknowledging his debt to Akers in the introduction. Neal lamented his passing, claiming...
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    Sophia Hawthorne (category American expatriates in the United Kingdom)
    grave was "on a sunny hillside looking towards the east... We had a head and footstone of white marble, with a place for flowers between, and Rose and...
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    Flute (redirect from The Flute)
    least 1603, the earliest quotation cited by the Oxford English Dictionary. Flautist was used in 1860 by Nathaniel Hawthorne in The Marble Faun, after being...
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    Ivanhoe. Another example is Miriam in Nathaniel Hawthorne's romance The Marble Faun. The Jewish mother stereotype is both a common stereotype and a stock...
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    Rose Hawthorne Lathrop (category People of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of New York)
    assisted in the birth by her father, Nathaniel Peabody. Hawthorne wrote about the infant Rose to his friend, Horatio Bridge, comparing her birth to the publication...
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    Villa Borghese gardens (category Venues of the 1960 Summer Olympics)
    Respighi's tone poem Pines of Rome The gardens are the setting of chapters 8–11 of Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel The Marble Faun The Villa is referenced by Phil...
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