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| Antonio Lombardo Mars in Repose (detail) ca. 1510-15 marble Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Antonio Lombardo Mars in Repose (detail) ca. 1510-15 marble Palazzo dei Musei, Modena |
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| Francesco Camilliani Heroic Figures flanking Escutcheon of Cosimo I de' Medici ca. 1563 marble Fortezza Medicea, Siena |
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| Francesco Camilliani Heroic Figures flanking Escutcheon of Cosimo I de' Medici (detail) ca. 1563 marble Fortezza Medicea, Siena |
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| Giovanni Maria Mosca Death of Porcia Catonis ca. 1550 marble Galleria Giorgio Franchetti alla Ca' d'Oro, Venice |
Brutus: O Cassius, I am sick of many griefs.
Cassius: Of your philosophy you make no use,
if you give place to accidental evils.
Brutus: No man bears sorrow better. Portia is dead.
Cassius: Ha! Portia!
Brutus: She is dead.
Cassius: How 'scaped I killing when I cross'd you so?
O insupportable and touching loss!
Upon what sickness?
Brutus: Impatient of my absence,
And grief that young Octavius with Mark Antony
Have made themselves so strong – for with her death
That tidings came – with this she fell distract
And, her attendants absent, swallowed fire.
– Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1599)
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| Jacopo Sansovino Neptune 1554 marble Palazzo Ducale, Venice |
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| Jacopo Sansovino Mars 1554 marble Palazzo Ducale, Venice |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa ca. 1590 marble Museo di Casa Romei, Ferrara |
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| Anonymous Italian Sculptor Emperor Antoninus Pius ca. 1590 marble Museo di Casa Romei, Ferrara |
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| Battista di Domenico Lorenzi Perseus slaying the Sea Monster ca. 1574-78 marble Palazzo Nonfinito, Florence |
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| Battista di Domenico Lorenzi Perseus slaying the Sea Monster (detail) ca. 1574-78 marble Palazzo Nonfinito, Florence |
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| Giambologna Fountain of Oceanus (River Gods) 1576 marble Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
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| Giambologna Fountain of Oceanus (River Gods) 1576 marble Giardino di Boboli, Florence |
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| Tiziano Aspetti Heroic Figure (Entrance Guardian) ca. 1595 marble Biblioteca Marciana, Venice |
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| Girolamo Campagna Heroic Figure (Entrance Guardian) ca. 1595 marble Biblioteca Marciana, Venice |