Description | English: “Ideals of Beauty,” from an advertisement for Palmolive soap |
Date | 1926 |
Source | Advertisement in Motion Picture Classic (https://archive.org/details/motion1724moti/page/n1175/mode/2up?view=theater) |
Author | Anonymous |
Tag Archives: Sculpture
The Tiber
Description | English: “Image of the Tiber River in marble, the work of an excellent artist, in the Vatican garden of the Popes in Rome.” Latina: Tiberis Fluvii simulacrum è marmore excellentis artificis opus, in Vaticano Pontificum viridario Romae. |
Date | 1585 |
Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
Laocoon
Description | English: “Statue of Laocoon, made from marble with wondrous art, in the Pontifical garden, Rome, not as described by Virgil or Pliny but after the description of the Greek Poets.” Latina: Laocoontis signum e marmore mira arte factum in Pontificio viridario, Romae non quale à Virgilio, ac Plinio, sed cuiusmodi à Gracis Poetis describitur. |
Date | 1585 |
Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
The Welsh Block of Marble for the Washington Monument
From Gleason’s Pictorial, 1854. —The Welsh stone actually installed, about 200 feet up, is inscribed “Fy iaith, fy ngwlad, fy nghenedl Cymru—WALES—Cymru am byth.” There are no figures.
Vignette by P. F. Rothermel
From Gift-Leaves of American Poetry, 1849.