#marble

Tombs of Staglieno IV: AT THE PRECIPICE

+OMENS+
Dark Field Monotype [Full Bleed Print]
Ink on Paper, 15 x 22
2020
~Age

AS WE DROWN

Watch in horror, as dark waters menace the incorrupt corpse of Our Republic.

+OMENS+
Dark Field Monotype [Full Bleed Print]
Ink on Paper, 15 x 22
2019
~Age

Invited to Ascend

South Stairs of the British Museum, with the Townley Caryatid centre.

vignelli marble coffee table

hadrian6:

Head of Discus Thrower. copy  after a Greek original. middle Imperial Period. Roman. marble.         http;//hadrian6.tumblr.com

Detail of a neoclassical marble bust of Venus after the Venus of Capua type, dated to c. 1850 and like sculpted in Rome. Source: Sotheby’s.

Detail of an ancient Roman statue of Aphrodite (Venus), dated to the 1st century CE. Marble. A copy of an original Greek statue that would have dated to c. 430-420 BCE. Source: Sotheby’s.

Ancient Roman marble head of a youth, dated to the 1st century CE. The head is a Roman copy of an original Greek bronze of Polykleitos, which would have dated to the 5th century BCE. Part of the Belfer Collection situated in New York. Photo taken by Elie Posner. Source: Observer. 

lionofchaeronea:

Selene, goddess of the moon, and her mortal lover Endymion.  Roman marble sarcophagus, artist unknown; 3rd cent. CE.  Found at Ostia; now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.  Photo credit: Marie-Lan Nguyen/Wikimedia Commons.

Fragments of the face of Caligula. Ancient Roman sculpture, dated to c. 38 CE during his reign. Currently located in the Vatican Museums. Source: Ancientrome.ru.

Ancient Roman statue of Calliope, muse of epic poetry, dated to the 2nd century CE. Marble. Currently located in the Vatican Museums. Source: Ancientrome.ru.

Detail of an ancient Roman statue of Cornelia Antonia from Antioch of Pisidia (a city in Asia Minor), dated to c. 160-170 CE. Marble. Currently located in the Istanbul Archaeology Museums. Source: Ancientrome.ru.

bernardcreely:

From The Parthenon c. 447 BC-432 BC British Museum

Detail of a late 19th century photograph of an unknown statue that likely dates to the Neoclassical period of the 18th and 19th centuries. The photograph is part of the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Detail of an antique photograph of the Apollo Belvedere, a 2nd century CE Roman marble copy of an original Greek bronze that would have dated to the 4th century BCE. The photograph was taken by Joseph Spithöver on March 8, 1867, according to a handwritten note on the back.

TheApollo Belvedere is currently located in the Vatican Museums, and this photograph is part of the collections of the J. Paul Getty Museum.

Detail of an ancient Roman bust of empress Faustina the Younger (c. 130-175 CE), wife of Marcus Aurelius and mother of Commodus, dated to the end of the 2nd century CE. Marble. Currently located in the Louvre. Photo taken by Ilya Shurygin for AncientRome.ru.

Detail of an ancient Roman bust of Cicero, dated to the 1st century BCE. Marble. Currently located in the Capitoline Museums in Rome. Source: Ancientrome.ru.

Peter Stavasser, 1850., Marble. “A nymph and a Satyr putting a sandal on her foot.” tretyakov art gallery.