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52 relations: Antoine Coysevox, Aphrodite, Aphrodite of Knidos, Augustus, Benvenuto Cellini, Carlier, Carrara marble, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Classical tradition, Claude-Henri Watelet, Constantinople, Diving equipment, Ercole Ferrata, Florence, François Perrier (painter), Francis Haskell, Goddess, Grand Tour, Greek mythology, Hiram Powers, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Jean-Jacques Clérion, Johan Zoffany, Johann Joachim Winckelmann, John Evelyn, Lord Byron, Louis XIV of France, Luca Giordano, Mannerism, Manufacture nationale de Sèvres, Mary Beard (classicist), Metropolitan Museum of Art, Niccolò di Pitigliano, Nicholas Penny, Nicolas Frémery, Phidias, Philip II of Spain, Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio Art Gallery, Pope Innocent XI, Praxiteles, Revoltella Museum, Samuel Rogers, Scopas, Silesia, Sulla, The Greek Slave, Tribuna of the Uffizi (painting), Trieste, Uffizi, United States, ..., Villa Medici, Willem Danielsz van Tetrode. Expand index (2 more) »
Antoine Coysevox
Charles Antoine Coysevox (29 September 164010 October 1720), French sculptor, was born at Lyon, and belonged to a family which had emigrated from Franche-Comté, a Spanish possession at the time.
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Aphrodite
Aphrodite is the ancient Greek goddess of love, beauty, pleasure, and procreation.
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Aphrodite of Knidos
The Aphrodite of Knidos (or Cnidus) was an Ancient Greek sculpture of the goddess Aphrodite created by Praxiteles of Athens around the 4th century BCE.
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Augustus
Augustus (Augustus; 23 September 63 BC – 19 August 14 AD) was a Roman statesman and military leader who was the first Emperor of the Roman Empire, controlling Imperial Rome from 27 BC until his death in AD 14.
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Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini (3 November 150013 February 1571) was an Italian goldsmith, sculptor, draftsman, soldier, musician, and artist who also wrote a famous autobiography and poetry.
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Carlier
Carlier is a Francophone surname, shared by several personalities.
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Carrara marble
Carrara marble is a type of white or blue-grey marble of high quality, popular for use in sculpture and building decor.
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Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage is a lengthy narrative poem in four parts written by Lord Byron.
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Classical tradition
The Western classical tradition is the reception of classical Greco-Roman antiquity by later cultures, especially the post-classical West, involving texts, imagery, objects, ideas, institutions, monuments, architecture, cultural artifacts, rituals, practices, and sayings.
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Claude-Henri Watelet
Claude-Henri Watelet (28 August 1718 – 12 January 1786) was a rich French fermier-général who was an amateur painter, a well-respected etcher, a writer on the arts and a connoisseur of gardens.
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Constantinople
Constantinople (Κωνσταντινούπολις Konstantinoúpolis; Constantinopolis) was the capital city of the Roman/Byzantine Empire (330–1204 and 1261–1453), and also of the brief Latin (1204–1261), and the later Ottoman (1453–1923) empires.
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Diving equipment
Diving equipment is equipment used by underwater divers to make diving activities possible, easier, safer and/or more comfortable.
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Ercole Ferrata
Ercole Ferrata (1610 – 10 July 1686) was an Italian sculptor of the Roman Baroque.
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Florence
Florence (Firenze) is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany.
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François Perrier (painter)
François Perrier (1590–1650) was a French painter, draftsman, and printmaker.
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Francis Haskell
Francis James Herbert Haskell (1928 – 18 January 2000, Oxford) was an English art historian, whose writings placed emphasis on the social history of art.
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Goddess
A goddess is a female deity.
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Grand Tour
The term "Grand Tour" refers to the 17th- and 18th-century custom of a traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a chaperon, such as a family member) when they had come of age (about 21 years old).
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Greek mythology
Greek mythology is the body of myths and teachings that belong to the ancient Greeks, concerning their gods and heroes, the nature of the world, and the origins and significance of their own cult and ritual practices.
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Hiram Powers
Hiram Powers (July 29, 1805 – June 27, 1873) was an American neoclassical sculptor.
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (21 August 1725 – 4 March 1805) was a French painter of portraits, genre scenes, and history painting.
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Jean-Jacques Clérion
Jean-Jacques Clérion (16 April 1637 – 28 April 1714) was a French sculptor who worked mainly for King Louis XIV.
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Johan Zoffany
Johan Joseph Zoffany, RA (born Johannes Josephus Zaufallij, 13 March 173311 November 1810) was a German neoclassical painter, active mainly in England.
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Johann Joachim Winckelmann
Johann Joachim Winckelmann (9 December 1717 – 8 June 1768) was a German art historian and archaeologist.
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John Evelyn
John Evelyn, FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist.
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Lord Byron
George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824), known as Lord Byron, was an English nobleman, poet, peer, politician, and leading figure in the Romantic movement.
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Louis XIV of France
Louis XIV (Louis Dieudonné; 5 September 16381 September 1715), known as Louis the Great (Louis le Grand) or the Sun King (Roi Soleil), was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715.
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Luca Giordano
Luca Giordano (18 October 1634 – 12 January 1705) was an Italian late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching.
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Mannerism
Mannerism, also known as Late Renaissance, is a style in European art that emerged in the later years of the Italian High Renaissance around 1520 and lasted until about the end of the 16th century in Italy, when the Baroque style began to replace it.
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Manufacture nationale de Sèvres
The manufacture nationale de Sèvres is one of the principal European porcelain manufactories.
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Mary Beard (classicist)
Dame Winifred Mary Beard, (born 1 January 1955) is an English scholar and classicist.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art of New York, colloquially "the Met", is the largest art museum in the United States.
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Niccolò di Pitigliano
Niccolò di Pitigliano (1442–1510) was an Italian condottiero best known as the Captain-General of the Venetians during the Most Serene Republic's war against the League of Cambrai.
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Nicholas Penny
Sir Nicholas Beaver Penny (born 21 December 1949) is a British art historian.
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Nicolas Frémery
Nicolas Frémery (? - after 1687) was a French 17th-century sculptor, best known for his marble copies of the Medici Venus, the Apollino and other works by classical and Hellenistic sculptors.
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Phidias
Phidias or Pheidias (Φειδίας, Pheidias; 480 – 430 BC) was a Greek sculptor, painter, and architect.
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Philip II of Spain
Philip II (Felipe II; 21 May 1527 – 13 September 1598), called "the Prudent" (el Prudente), was King of Spain (1556–98), King of Portugal (1581–98, as Philip I, Filipe I), King of Naples and Sicily (both from 1554), and jure uxoris King of England and Ireland (during his marriage to Queen Mary I from 1554–58).
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Pietro Bazzanti e Figlio Art Gallery
The "workshop" of Pietro Bazzanti and Son is an historic landmark in Florence, art and culture heritage of the city.
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Pope Innocent XI
Pope Innocent XI (Innocentius XI; 16 May 1611 – 12 August 1689), born Benedetto Odescalchi, ruled from 21 September 1676 to his death.
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Praxiteles
Praxiteles (Greek: Πραξιτέλης) of Athens, the son of Cephisodotus the Elder, was the most renowned of the Attic sculptors of the 4th century BC.
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Revoltella Museum
The Revoltella Museum (Museo Revoltella) is a modern art gallery founded in Trieste in 1872 by Baron Pasquale Revoltella.
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Samuel Rogers
Samuel Rogers (30 July 1763 – 18 December 1855) was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron.
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Scopas
Scopas or Skopas (Ancient Greek: Σκόπας) (c. 395 BC – 350 BC) was an Ancient Greek sculptor and architect most famous for his statue of Meleager, the copper statue of "Aphrodite" and the head of goddess Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius.
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Silesia
Silesia (Śląsk; Slezsko;; Silesian German: Schläsing; Silesian: Ślůnsk; Šlazyńska; Šleska; Silesia) is a region of Central Europe located mostly in Poland, with small parts in the Czech Republic and Germany.
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Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (c. 138 BC – 78 BC), known commonly as Sulla, was a Roman general and statesman.
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The Greek Slave
The Greek Slave is a marble sculpture by American sculptor Hiram Powers.
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Tribuna of the Uffizi (painting)
The Tribuna of the Uffizi (1772–1778) by Johan Zoffany is a painting of the north-east section of the Tribuna room in the Uffizi in Florence, Italy.
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Trieste
Trieste (Trst) is a city and a seaport in northeastern Italy.
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Uffizi
The Uffizi Gallery (italic) is a prominent art museum located adjacent to the Piazza della Signoria in the Historic Centre of Florence in the region of Tuscany, Italy.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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Villa Medici
The Villa Medici is a Mannerist villa and an architectural complex with a garden contiguous with the larger Borghese gardens, on the Pincian Hill next to Trinità dei Monti in Rome, Italy.
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Willem Danielsz van Tetrode
Willem Danielsz.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_de'_Medici
