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Niobe Mask - Item #81917 Inches High x 10 Inches Wide This mask is from the sculpture of Niobe and her younger daughter from the Niobid Group. A Roman copy of a Hellenistic Greek original, the marble Niobid Group consists of a series of figures. The sculptor may have been Skopas or Praxiteles. The Niobid Group was discovered in the Tomassini vineyard in Rome in 1583 and is now housed in the dedicated Niobe Room in the Uffizi Galleries. Here, they are displayed individually

1525-1590) carved the Three Graces out of one block of marble

We reoriented the figures in order to fit this shape

with an acanthus leaf and scrollwork on the sides

This panel is from the frieze called the Triumphal Entry of Alexander into Babylon

This small relief shows the bounties of both seasons in the form of allegorical figures

" Encyclopædia Britannica

9 Inches High x 7 Inches Wide

Mask from Item #220

Antoine-Denis Chaudet

better known as Lord Byron (1788-1824)

David is one of the masterpieces of the world

Ball also sculpted a second relief (Item #789) for the pedestal while Greenough created another two