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Doryphoros Head - Item #43714 Inches High x 9 Inches Wide x 11. 625 Inches Deep Life size bust. The famous statue of the Doryphoros is a Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze original. There are several Roman copies in existence, but the most intact one is in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples. This copy was discovered in the ancient city of Pompeii in a gymnasium, signifying its theorized purpose there as inspiration to the athletes. Polykleitos created the Doryphoros,

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and the legs counter the arms in being tensed or relaxed

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and curls are visible on her forehead

This sculpture was based on Jean-Léon Gérôme's painting Phryne before the Areopagus (Phryné devant l'Areopage) (1861)

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5 Inches High x 31 Inches Wide x 2

This piece is a reduction of one of the grotesques from the exterior of Notre-Dame

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it was placed on a new fountain in the courtyard of the Palazzo Vecchio by Grand Duke Cosimo I de' Medici of Tuscany (1519-1574)

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Thorvaldsen originally created it in 1804 in Montenero at the villa of the Baron von Schubart