Marble statue of a nude Spartacus with arms crossed on his chest, standing on an inscribed plinth before an arched niche.

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Denis Foyatier created the marble Spartacus in 1830 while studying at the Villa Medici

This is not an antique sculpture. The marble Spartacus was made in 1830 by Denis Foyatier, who was completing his studies at the Villa Medici in Rome, as a reward for his successful progress at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris

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In his will Alexander the Great asked that his coffin be carried through all his dominions, with one of his hands left hanging outside, so that all might see that he goes to the grave empty-handed

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Hans Memling's Annunciation, 1480-89

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More Desired Than Ever: Picasso's Doves of Peace Flutter into the Exhibition "O-Style and the Graphic World of the Thaw" at the Voznesensky Centre

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A Melancholy Empire Mood

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Invalids, Anatoly Galaktionovich Petritsky, 1924

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Two-Coloured Marble Statue of Isis, 1st–2nd Centuries AD

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To Read Until the Very Day of Judgement Is Not the Worst of Fates

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The Temple of Poseidon at Sounion, by the French Artist Paul Bret

Black and white sketch of a bearded old man in a cap seated in an armchair, resting his head on one hand and leaning on a staff with the other.

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Seated Ivan the Terrible in a Sketch by Viktor Vasnetsov

Ivan the Terrible. Sketch by Viktor Vasnetsov

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Spectators: the Triple Funerary Monument of the Fettiplace Family in Swinbrook Church, Oxfordshire

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