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Bronze sculpture of a she-wolf standing over the twins Romulus and Remus, who are kneeling and nursing beneath her, displayed in the Capitoline Museums, Rome. Marble sculpture Dying Gaul depicts a wounded man reclining with head bowed, surrounded by other classical statues in a museum setting. The Greek philosopher Plato Scipio, Publius Cornelius Lucius Junius Brutus Marble sculpture of Medusa by Gian Lorenzo Bernini, showing a woman's anguished face framed by intricately carved snakes for hair, displayed in the Capitoline Museums, Rome.

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Type Description Contributor Date
Deleted Web site: Capitoline Museums research website (English/German/Italian language versions). Jul 30, 2013
Media added. May 13, 2011
Updated information about the palaces that house the collection and the works included there; added two photos. Feb 18, 2009
Added new Web site: Sacred Destinations - Capitoline Hill and Capitoline Museum, Rome. Jul 19, 2007
Added new Web site: Official Site of the Capitoline Museums, Italy. Jul 19, 2007
Article added to new online database. Jul 20, 1998
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