Vatican museum sculpture

Antinous as Dionysos-Osiris, favored by Hadrian the Emperor of Rome. This colossal marble statue is housed in the Museo Pio Clementino,Sala Rotunda, the Vatican Museums.

Marble. Ca. 20—17 BCE.

Term of Antisthenes. Marble. No. 507. Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Muses, 52.

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Livia, wife of Augustus, mother of Emperor Tiberius, Roman statue (marble), 1st century AD, (Musei Vaticani, Vatican City).

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Marble. 2nd century.

Discus Thrower Vatican Museum

The massive bronze pinecone in the Vatican's Cortile della Pigna was originally the centrepiece of an ancient public fountain. Rediscovered in the Middle Ages, it was given pride of place in the atrium of Old St. Peter’s basilica, and moved to Donato Bramante’s iconic Belvedere Courtyard in the 16th century.

Belvedere Torso which inspired Michelangelo, Vatican Museum, Rome, Italy

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Marble. Mid-2nd cent. CE