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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Reclining Tigris ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
Another selection of the antique statues recorded anonymously in Rome during the 1540s. Though valued, these marbles never ascended to the great fame of other similar statues judged more significant or more beautiful. The level of detail and completeness seen in most of these examples testifies to the elaborateness of their restoration. The distinct identities with which they are labeled are in most cases the result of that restoration-work. Appropriate-seeming attributes (as well as limbs and heads) were carved and added to increase the comfort of a viewing public who demonstrated a general unwillingness to look at incomplete or unidentified statues. Natural effects of time and neglect were not regarded as testamentary evidence of the object's history and authenticity, but merely as distressing blemishes that in most cases could and should be remedied.
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Minerva ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Minerva ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Crouching Amazon ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Standing Amazon ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Personification of Comedy ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Shepherd ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Standing Goddess ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Wife of Petronius ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Asclepius ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Athena ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Hercules ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Marcus Aurelius ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |
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| Anonymous portfolio of Antique Statues in Rome Agrippina ca. 1540-50 engraving British Museum |