Roman generals “were ... on a different meaning. A marble statue of Pauline Bonaparte (sister to Napoleon Bonaparte) as Venus Victrix celebrates the goddess’ prowess in matters of the heart.
The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient Greek goddess Athena ... including the so-called Jenkins Venus.) The Halsted curator Karen Manchester notes ...
The original statue would have been about half life-size and was probably intended to be of Fortuna, the goddess of good fortune, who was often worshipped by soldiers in the Roman army.
Venus was believed ... In Egypt, Isis was a goddess of fertility; she was also a mother and a symbol of death and rebirth. She therefore combined the duties of several Roman goddesses, including ...
A statue of a goddess that went missing from a visitor ... and architectural resin and is a reproduction of the original Roman marble copy of a Greek statue dating from the 4th Century BC.
Ancient statues have also been found in trash before in other parts of Europe. In 2023, a Roman-era statuette of Venus was discovered in a trash dump in Rennes, France. That same year, ancient bronze ...