Look up belvedere in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Belvedere (from Italian, meaning "beautiful sight") may refer to: Belvedere, Queensland, a locality...
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The Apollo Belvedere (also called the Belvedere Apollo, Apollo of the Belvedere, or Pythian Apollo) is a celebrated marble sculpture from classical antiquity...
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The Belvedere Torso is a 1.59-metre-tall (5.2 ft) fragmentary marble statue of a male nude, known to be in Rome from the 1430s, and signed prominently...
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Belvedere College S.J. (sometimes St Francis Xavier's College) is a fee-paying voluntary secondary school for boys in Dublin, Ireland. Formally established...
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The Belvedere on the Pfingstberg (German: Belvedere auf dem Pfingstberg) is a palace north of the New Garden in Potsdam, Germany, at the summit of Pfingstberg...
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Ancient Greek art stands out among that of other ancient cultures for its development of naturalistic but idealized depictions of the human body, in which...
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his response to Greek art and often tended toward the rhapsodic: "from admiration I pass to ecstasy ...," he wrote of the Apollo Belvedere, "I am transported...
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Ajax the Great (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)
and slaughters the cattle of the Greeks. After returning to his senses, he kills himself out of shame. The Belvedere Torso, a marble torso now in the...
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Katakolo (redirect from Katakolo, Greece)
Katakolo (Greek: Κατάκολο) is a seaside town in the municipality of Pyrgos in western Elis, Greece. It is situated on a headland overlooking the Ionian...
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Hermes (Museo Pio-Clementino) (redirect from Belvedere Antinous)
Rome. It was long admired as the Belvedere Antinous, named from its prominent placement in the Cortile del Belvedere. It is now inventory number 907 in...
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