The Silence Of The Marble

Sarcophagus with a scene of Amazonomachy, 3rd century AD, Octagonal Court, Pius-Clementine Museum, Vatican Museums, Rome. 

Praxiteles Faun,  Roman copy of a Greek original of the Late Classicism by Praxiteles, Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy

Detail of the columns of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy

Detail of the columns of the Pantheon, Rome, Italy

Male torso probably of an athlete (surely copy of Diadumenos), Capitoline Museums, Rome, Italy.

Marble portrait head of Alexander the Great,  2ndC BC-1stC BC, British Museum, London,  United Kingdom

Marble bust of Emperor Antonino Pius, 2nd century AD, British Museum, London, United Kingdom

Mosaic remains of the Baths of Caracalla,  between 212 and 216 AD, Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy

Mosaic remains of the Baths of Caracalla,  between 212 and 216 AD, Baths of Caracalla, Rome, Italy

"Mithraic Torchbearer" or "Mithra Chiaramonti" restored as the mythological Trojan hero Paris,  2nd-3rd century AD, Chiaramonti Museum, Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy

"Mithraic Torchbearer" or "Mithra Chiaramonti" restored as the mythological Trojan hero Paris,  2nd-3rd century AD, Chiaramonti Museum, Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy

Colossal statue of Veiovis, Flavian period or late-republican, Tabularium, Musei Capitolini, Rome, Italy.