The over-lifesize Medusa Rondanini, the best late Hellenistic or Augustan Roman marble copy of the head of Medusa, is rendered more humanized and beautiful than the always grotesque apotropaic head of Medusa that appeared as the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena. The Medusa Rondanini is located in the Glyptothek in Munich, Germany,[1] having been purchased by the art-loving king Ludwig of Bavaria from the heirs of the marchese Rondanini, during his Grand Tour of Italy as a prince.
The over-lifesize MedusaRondanini, the best late Hellenistic or Augustan Roman marble copy of the head of Medusa, is rendered more humanized and beautiful...
BC) Medusa column bases of Basilica Cistern in Constantinople. The "RondaniniMedusa", a Roman copy of the Gorgoneion on the aegis of Athena; later used...
from Palencia Gorgon Medusa (130 AD) from the Romano-Germanic Museum in Cologne The marble MedusaRondanini Here is a sculpture Medusa Bernini Musei Capitolini...
century BC. The earliest example of a "beautiful" gorgoneion is the MedusaRondanini (Fig. 16), which is thought to be a Roman copy of a Greek original...
Medusa. The statue was based freely to the Apollo Belvedere and the MedusaRondanini. Napoleon, after his 1796 Italian Campaign, took the Apollo Belvedere...
In the centre was again a gorgoneion that must have looked like the RondaniniMedusa since it is strongly inspired by it. He was surrounded by about thirty...
sculpture. Through his agents, he managed to acquire such pieces as the MedusaRondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Aphaea temple...
sculpture. Through his agents, he managed to acquire such pieces as the MedusaRondanini, the Barberini Faun, and, in 1813, the figures from the Temple of Aphaea...
(the State Antiquities Collections). Works on display include the MedusaRondanini, the Barberini Faun and figures from the Temple of Aphaea on Aegina...
stucco garlands and candelabras by Antonio Isopi. Reproductions of the MedusaRondanini, Hermes Ludovisi, and the Medici Vase are present around the doors...
Collection). King Ludwig I managed to acquire such famous pieces as the MedusaRondanini, the Barberini Faun and the figures from the Temple of Aphaea on Aegina...
wearing the Accademia di San Luca's cloak and holding a drawing of the MedusaRondanini. The other people are, from left to right, the artist Gino De Dominicis...
Horti Lamiani Dancing Maenad Equestrian statue of Marcus Aurelius Bernini's Medusa Resting Satyr Leaning Satyr Leda and the Swan The Spinario The Capitoline...
his last works, the three piéades (the Palestrina, the Duomo and the Rondanini Pietà), he completely abandoned the ideal of physical beauty, with distorted...
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