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Belvedere Torso, Hellenistic sculpture fragment of a male nude (5 feet 2 5/8 inches [1.59 m] high) in the Vatican Museum; the work is signed by the Athenian sculptor Apollonius the son of Nestor and was long thought to be a 1st-century- bc original. It is now believed that Apollonius copied a 2nd-century original.
AD 315. ( Italian: Arco di Costantino) is a triumphal arch in Rome dedicated to the emperor Constantine the Great. The arch was commissioned by the Roman Senate to commemorate Constantine's victory over Maxentius at the Battle of Milvian Bridge in AD 312. Situated between the Colosseum and the Palatine Hill, the arch spans the Via Triumphalis ...
Apollo Belvedere. 2nd-century CE Roman copy of a 4th-century BCE bronze original attributed to the sculptor Leochares. Inv. No. 1015. Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Apollo Cabinet, 2. (Roma, Musei Vaticani, Museo Pio-Clementino, Cortile ottagono, Gabinetto dell’Apollo, 2). Credits:
Rediscovered in the late 1400's near Rome, the statue was placed in the Cortile del Belvedere of the Vatican in 1511, from which it derives its name. Since that time, this classical sculpture has greatly influenced numerous artists, including Michelangelo and Bernini, and Apollo’s proportioned, muscular body became a standard for the ideal ...
Buddhism may have arrived as early as the 3rd or 2nd century BCE via India, or alternatively during the 1st or 2nd century from China. Whatever the case, Mahayana Buddhism had been established by the second century CE in Vietnam. By the 9th century, both Pure Land and Thien (Zen) were major Vietnamese Buddhist schools.
Mar 13, 2021 · Originally designed in the Doric order in the sixth century BCE, the temple was redesigned in the second century BCE in the Corinthian order on a colossal platform measuring 134.5 feet by 353.5 feet. It was to be flanked by a double colonnade of eight columns across the front and back and twenty-one on the flanks, surrounding the cella .
Mar 22, 2018 · The Trojan War has defined and shaped the way ancient Greek culture has been viewed right up to the 21st century CE. The story of gods and heroic warriors is perhaps one of the richest single surviving sources from antiquity and offers insights into the warfare, religion, customs, and attitudes of the ancient Greeks.
