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Idolino

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17: 109:, the Duke of Urbino. The statue was preserved almost intact; only the right hand had to be restored. The fragmented bronze vine that was found with the statue and originally held in the right hand was no longer attached; that vine led to the misidentification as Bacchus. In 1630, the statue was bequeathed by the 289: 94:
and of the sacrifice of a goat in a Bacchic rite. The pedestal is assembled from four large sections of hollow, four-sided moldings; its ornamental vocabulary suggests an altar.
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The statue is on a bronze and silver base, 152 cm high, made in 1530-40 by Aurelio, Ludovico, and
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The statue represents a youth with his right hand outstretched. Originally thought to be a statue of
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and to keep the statue in a safe place, the statue was permanently located in 1897 in the
49: 156: 16: 263: 157:"Figure of a youth, so-called 'Idolino of Pesaro,'" from the Databases of Ancient Art 224:‘…con uno inbasamento et ornamento alto’: the rhetoric of the pedestal c. 1430-1550 212: 87: 43: 32: 209:
Exhibition Checklist: Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World
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standing 146 cm high, made in approximately 30 B.C. It is a copy of a
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made in approximately 440 B.C. It received the name "Idolino," which is
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1800–1803, when it was necessary to avoid the risk of requisition by
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Roman
bronze
statue
contrapposto
Greek
Polyclitus
Italian
Bacchus
oil lamp
dinner parties
Doryphoros
Girolamo Lombardo
Pietro Bembo
Ariadne
villa
Pesaro
Francesco Maria I della Rovere
Medici
Florence
Vittoria della Rovere
Ferdinand II, Grand Duke of Tuscany
Uffizi
Palermo
Napoleon
Archaeological Museum of Florence
"Figure of a youth, so-called 'Idolino of Pesaro,'" from the Databases of Ancient Art
"Idolino," from Encyclopædia Britannica
The "Idolino"
National Gallery of Art

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