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"From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain, and nourish all the world."

spent my bday in the art museum

The so-called Omphalos Apollo, amended as Antinous. Roman copy from around 130 AD after the greek original. Altes Museum, Berlin

Sculptural group The Force by Augusto Rivalta, Vittoriano, Rome

New Wing, Vatican Museum, Rome

Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Bust of Antinous, 130 – 140 AD, from Rome, Altes Museum, Berlin

In the foreground: Torso of the so-called Omphalos Apollo, amended as Antinous. Roman copy from around 130 AD  after the greek original. Altes Museum, Berlin

Dionysus and Satyr, Miletus (Turkey), around 160 170 AD. Altes Museum, Berlin

I haven’t found any description to this piece at the place itself, all i can say is that it’s probably Dionysus. Belongs to the Musei Capitolini collection. If anyone knows more about this head, please share.

From Schloss Sanssouci, Potsdam. Does anyone know who exactly does this sculpture portray? And what is a copy of?

Marble

Possêidon. Malenara beach, Spain!

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Peace and Wealth, shown as mother and child. Pausanias, the Greek travel writer of the second century CE, wrote about a sculptor called Kephisodotos who made a sculpture of “Peace holding the child Wealth in her arms” for the Athenians. It was made of bronze and stood in the Agora. This is a Roman copy, and the child’s head may not belong. The original was probably created to coincide with the foundation of a cult of Eirene in 374 BCE, when peace was made with Sparta, or in 371 BCE when a peace was signed between all Greeks.

Greek sculpture from the Classical Period at the National Archaeological Museum in Athens.

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.