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    Sperlonga (locally Spelonghe) is a coastal town in the province of Latina, Italy, about halfway between Rome and Naples. It is best known for the ancient...
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    The Sperlonga sculptures are a large and elaborate ensemble of ancient sculptures discovered in 1957 in the grounds of the former villa of the Emperor...
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    and His Sons, in the Vatican Museums, and the sculptures discovered at Sperlonga are both signed by three sculptors including an Agesander. The name Agesander...
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    fathers, are inscribed on one of the sculptures at Tiberius's villa at Sperlonga (though they may predate his ownership), but it seems likely that not...
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    representing Odysseus blinding Polyphemus, found at the villa of Tiberius at Sperlonga, Italy In-universe information Title King of Ithaca Spouse Penelope Children...
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    probably intended to represent other Homeric figures, is part of the Sperlonga sculptures found in 1957. Ancient Roman copies of the original Greek sculptural...
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    Winckelmann's views on harmony and expression in the visual arts. The fragmentary Sperlonga sculptures are another series of "baroque" sculptures in the Hellenistic...
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    depicted in life-size sculpture, including a giant Polyphemus, in the Sperlonga sculptures probably made for the Emperor Tiberius. This may be an interpretation...
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    Marinella, Ladispoli, Anzio, Nettuno, Sabaudia, San Felice Circeo, Terracina, Sperlonga, Gaeta) and summer/winter tourism in the ski resorts of the Lazio Apennines...
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    Caligula. The remains of Tiberius's villa at Sperlonga include a grotto, where the fragmentary Sperlonga sculptures were found. The hill-top Villa Jovis...
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  • musical sequence features the official music video for the song. Filmed in Sperlonga, Italy, the music video portrays Jackson and Zadora as star-crossed lovers...
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    In 2011 after his return to Italy and particularly Torre del Greco and Sperlonga we witness a new period in André Durand's artistic trajectory fully manifest...
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    Caieta, with its temperate climate like the neighbouring Formia and Sperlonga, became one of the earliest locations of villae maritimae, seaside villas...
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    surviving population for Fondi and Sperlonga in December 1534; how especially women had been targeted for slavery in Sperlonga, were 162 houses had been destroyed;...
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  • version begins in "A Fishing Village in Sicily" (the fictional Gerra), not Sperlonga, Italy. 20 Million Miles to Earth has an 80% positive rating at the film...
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    times in complex and monumental creations such as the Laocoon group or Sperlonga sculptures attributed or signed by Rhodian sculptors. The base blocks...
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    and the subject, or the composition applied to other figures as in the Sperlonga sculptures, occurs a number of times in classical sculpture, where it...
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    remarkable set of sculptures found in the cave of the Villa of Tiberius in Sperlonga, depicting scenes from the adventures of Odysseus. Finally, it has been...
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    Adam Ondra) The Bow, Arco, Italy, November 2020 9a (5.14d) Grandi Gesti, Sperlonga, Italy, March 2016 Joe-cita, Oliana, Spain, February 2017 Esclatamasters...
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    Kingdom of Naples, causing the church bells in Rome to sound the alarm. In Sperlonga, also part of the Kingdom of Naples, he took 10,000 captives and when...
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    now in the Vatican Museums, and the large sculptures rediscovered at Sperlonga in the villa of Tiberius, probably in the early Imperial period. In 305...
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    1996. ISBN 978-0-631-20102-1. de Grummond, Nancy T., From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context. University of California Press, Los Angeles, United...
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  • sculptors who created the sculpture Laocoön and His Sons and signed the Sperlonga sculptures Polydora Scholia on Ovid, Ibis 273 Apollodorus, 3.4.2 Hyginus...
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  • patricians of Rome, notably the grandiose villa of the emperor Tiberius at Sperlonga. The road was a difficult and dangerous project as the coastline is mountainous...
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  • Odysseus, Sperlonga sculptures...
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    died in 2002. Varzi died of cardiac arrest at her holiday cottage in Sperlonga, Latina, on 1 September 2014. She was 87. It's Forever Springtime (1950)...
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    Company. 1987. Grummond, Nancy T.; Ridgway, Brunilde S., From Pergamon to Sperlonga: Sculpture and Context, University of California Press, 2000, ISBN 0-520-22327-6...
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    (born 1958). The family lived for many years at a villa constructed near Sperlonga. During the late 1950s, Vallone was romantically entangled with Brigitte...
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    Gaeta Greccio Nemi Orvinio Percile Pico Ronciglione San Felice Circeo Sperlonga Subiaco Sutri Torre Alfina Vitorchiano Marche (31) Arcevia Cingoli Corinaldo...
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    official Greco-Roman style at its most classical and refined, and the Sperlonga sculptures it at its most baroque. Some late Roman public sculptures developed...
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