After spending centuries on a British aristocrat's estate in North Yorkshire, the marble masterpiece will be unveiled in ...

Statue of Athena. The head did not belong to the body. She wears a Corinthian helmet similar to the Ince Athena 59.148.8 The restoration was directed by the sculptor Antonio Canova. The statue has ...

Statue of Athena, with a small diagonal aegis. From the Villa Mattei, but previously believed to have come from Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. The statue was acquired by Henry Blundell during his first ...

The Halsted A&A Foundation has acquired a 1st-century Roman statue of the ancient ... “In the 18th century, Athena was known among the British grand tourists as Minerva, probably because they ...

The statue’s original owner, William Weddell—a British landowner and politician—purchased it during the mid-1700s in Rome for his estate, Newby Hall, in North Yorkshire. There, Athena ...

and visitors will be able to study the statue of Athena closely and interpret it from many perspectives, including those of art history, restoration practices, and gender studies,” she added. Until ...

An ancient Roman statue of Athena, unseen for almost 300 years ... The work was first acquired in Rome in the 18th century by British politician William Weddell, who boasted a voracious collecting ...

The colossal gold and ivory statue of the goddess Athena, in the Parthenon on the Acropolis, was stripped of its gold which was then struck into coins. This was the only known example when King ...