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Tag Archives: Vatican Museum
free as a bird: mystery of ganymedes
It began as something a bit anodyne. Building a highway as part of Italy’s post WWII little Marshall plan to connect Rome to the outlying areas, passing through an ancient Roman way known as the Via Flacca. At this juncture … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Cave of Tiberius Sperlonga, G.M.A. Richter, Ganymedes Cave of Tiberius, george martin richter, King Tros the Dardanian, Leochares, Leochares The Rhodian, Mausoleum at Halicarnassus, Pliny the Elder, Professor Giulio Jacopi, Sperlonga grotto of tiberius, Vatican Museum, Winged Victory Nike of Samothrace
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cave of tiberius: great grotto its got fragments
The cave of Tiberius. Twelve thousand fragments in an Emperor’s sculpture gallery made a jigsaw puzzle for archaeologists. 1957. With every scoop of the shovel, the archaeologists became more certain that they had located what had once been the gallery … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Athanodoros, Cave of Tiberius, Cave of Tiberius Sperlonga, Cherubim of Solomon's Temple, Emperor Tiberius, Ganymedes Cave of Tiberius, Hagesandros, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Margarete Bieber, Michelangelo, Pliny Natural History, Pliny the Elder, Polydoros, The Laocoon group, Tiberius Caesar, Vatican Museum, William Blake
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