The four figures at each corner of the statue are a personification of the ... and Río de la Plata (Americas). Animals, plants and other iconography help to further differentiate the four nudes.
the Colosseum makes for an impressive sight in the centre of Rome. Like all amphitheatres of the time, the Colosseum was the ...
As a group, Abate Luigi, Pasquino, Il Facchino, Madama Lucrezia, Marforio and Il Babuino earned the nickname of Rome’s statue parlanti, or talking statues, not because they actually spoke ...