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workshop of Antico (Pier Jacopo Alari Bonacolsi) Hercules ca. 1496 bronze Gallerie Estense, Modena |
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Anonymous Florentine Artist Meleager ca. 1520-60 marble relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Baccio Bandinelli Portrait of a Young Man ca. 1540 marble Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Simone Bianco Idealized Classical Bust ca. 1540 marble Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
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Alessandro Vittoria Portrait of Pietro Zeno ca. 1570 marble Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Anonymous Italian Artist The Spinario ca. 1590 marble (based on an antique bronze) Galleria Borghese, Rome |
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Barthélemy Prieur Woman extracting a Thorn from her Heel ca. 1600 bronze Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Hendrik de Keyser the Elder Mercury ca. 1625-50 bronze (later cast of original from 1611) Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum, Braunschweig |
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Philippe de Buyster Personification of Satiric Poetry ca. 1675-80 marble Château de Versailles |
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Camillo Rusconi Faun 1728 marble Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Lambert Sigisbert Adam Classically-Draped Woman donning a Sandal 1731 marble Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Filippo and Ignazio Collino Bust of Julius Caesar ca. 1785 marble (nose deliberately broken, as if antique) Galleria Sabauda, Turin |
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Anonymous French Artist Portrait of Henri IV (posthumous and idealized) 18th century bronze Ashmolean Museum, Oxford |
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Emanuel Bardou Portrait of Immanuel Kant 1798 marble (modeled after the traditional appearance of Aristotle) Bode Museum, Berlin |
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Joseph Nollekens Henry Vassal Fox, 3rd Baron Holland 1799 marble Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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Anonymous Italian Artist after Antonio Canova Ganymede ca. 1810 marble Musée Marmottan Monet, Paris |
from Clotho
after Camille Claudel
And always there was something there you could not reach:
it flickered below the surface of the marble
like a candle behind a grimed window,
mocking your eager questions like an echo.
– Caitríona O'Reilly, Geis (2015)