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| Greek Culture in South Italy Young Horseman supported by Sphinx (Cavaliere Marafioti) life-size temple-decoration, heavily restored 420-400 BC terracotta Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria |
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| Greek Culture in South Italy Young Horseman supported by Sphinx (Cavaliere Marafioti) life-size temple-decoration, heavily restored 420-400 BC terracotta Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Reggio Calabria |
Discovered during an excavation in 1910, this terracotta group of mounted youth supported by a sphinx originally decorated the roof of a Doric temple built by Greek settlers in present-day Calabria. By the time a few centuries later when the ancient Romans established domination over the area, the temple had already fallen into a state of ruin. The Cavaliere Marafioti was reconstructed between 1911 and 1925 from more than a 180 fragments unearthed by Paolo Orsi during the excavation. Over a new internal structure built of wood, stucco and bronze, restorer Giuseppe Damico arranged the surviving pieces, connecting them with rosin and filling gaps with a comparable terracotta material. The rider's head and many other details were largely his own constructions.
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| Etruscan Culture Winged Horses from Temple Façade 400-380 BC terracotta Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Tarquinia |
The Winged Horses of Tarquinia, created for the façade of an Etruscan temple in the present-day Viterbo region of central Italy, were discovered and initially pieced together in 1928. The latest campaign of restoration on this huge relief-slab took place in 2014. A matching slab with chariot originally existed, but no trace of it survives.
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| Etruscan Culture Head of Youth 310-300 BC terracotta Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia, Rome |
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| Desiderio da Settignano St John the Baptist ca. 1490 painted terracotta National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
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| Andrea della Robbia The Annunciation ca. 1490 glazed terracotta Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| della Robbia workshop Vault Coffering ca. 1505 glazed terracotta Duomo di Pistoia |
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| della Robbia workshop Vault Coffering (detail) ca. 1505 glazed terracotta Duomo di Pistoia |
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| Girolamo della Robbia Virgin and Child with young St John the Baptist ca. 1510 glazed terracotta Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Florence |
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| Giovanni della Robbia Tabernacle (detail) ca. 1500-1525 glazed terracotta Chiesa di Santi Apostoli, Florence |
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| Benedetto Buglioni Virgin and Child enthroned, with St Sebastian and St Anthony Abbot before 1521 glazed terracotta Palazzo Pretorio, Prato |
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| Benedetto Buglioni Virgin and Child before 1521 glazed terracotta Villa Antinori delle Rose, Florence |
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| Niccolò Roccatagliata Virgin and Child ca. 1600 terracotta relief Bode Museum, Berlin |
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| Gianlorenzo Bernini Bozzetto for Fontana del Moro, Piazza Navona, Rome 1653 terracotta Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas |
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| circle of Giuseppe Sanmartino Veiled Christ ca. 1752 terracotta Los Angeles County Museum of Art |