The Gilt Bronzes from Cartoceto di Pergola are the only surviving Roman gilt bronze equestrian group. The monumental ensemble was composed of at least two knights, of which only one remains, atop their horses, and two women standing.
Read more about Gilt Bronzes From Cartoceto Di Pergola: Discovery and Restoration, Original Placement of The Group, Identification, Techniques and Materials, Controversy
Other articles related to "gilt bronzes from cartoceto di pergola, pergola, bronzes, di pergola":
... Archeologici delle Marche and the municipality of Pergola over the location where the bronzes would be preserved ... in Ancona, until 1972, when it was moved to the Museo dei Bronzi dorati della città di Pergola, built specifically for this purpose ... A compromise solution now moves the original bronzes and replicas between the two sites ...
Famous quotes containing the word gilt:
“The moment when she crawled out onto the back of the open limousine in which her husband had been murdered was the first and last time the American people would see Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis crawl.... She was the last great private public figure in this country. In a time of gilt and glitz and perpetual revelation, she was perpetually associated with that thing so difficult to describe yet so simple to recognize, the apotheosis of dignity.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)