Antonio Canova (; 1 November 1757 – 13 October 1822 ) was an Italian sculptor from the Republic of Venice who became famous for his marble sculptures that delicately rendered nude flesh.

File: Spinario-British Museum. jpg | Room 22-Roman marble copy of the famous ' Spinario ( Boy with Thorn )', circa 1st century AD

In the Middle Ages, the Torre delle Milizie and the convent of St. Peter and Domenic were built, and above Constantine's building was erected the Palazzo Rospigliosi ; the two famous colossal marble statues of the " Horse Tamers ", generally identified as the Dioscuri with horses, which now are in the Piazza Quirinale, were originally in this Palazzo.

A famous example is the marble statue of Hermes with the infant Dionysus in Olympia by Praxiteles.

The inscription in his marble sarcophagus, an elegiac distich written by Pietro Bembo, reads: " Ille hic est Raffael, timuit quo sospite vinci, rerum magna parens et moriente mori ," meaning: " Here lies that famous Raphael by whom Nature feared to be conquered while he lived, and when he was dying, feared herself to die.

Thucydides devotes several chapters to their conflict with Athens, and there is a famous marble statue, Paeonius Victory-dedicated by the people of Naupactus and Messenia and now in the museum of Ancient Olympia.

Tromp, a " sea hero ", was immensely popular with the common people, a sentiment expressed by the greatest of Dutch poets, Joost van den Vondel in a famous poem describing his marble grave monument in Delft showing the admiral on his moment of death with a burning British fleet on the foreground:

The island's most famous site is the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Greek Hieron ton Megalon Theon ; the most famous artifact of which is the 2. 5-metre marble statue of Nike, now known as the Winged Victory of Samothrace, dating from about 190 BC.

In the square dedicated to him, facing the palace of the Archiginnasio, the ancient seat of the University of Bologna, a big marble statue has been erected to the scientist while observing one of his famous frog experiments.

There are also quarries of marble, sulphur, copper, and silver mines, and beds of lignite and kaolin ; mineral springs also abound, the most famous being those of Recoaro.

* The Kruidtuin or " Botanique " inner city park with marble statue of the world famous 16th century herbalist Rembert Dodoens alias Dodonæus ; the wooded Vrijbroek recreational park with around June its outstanding Rose Gardens and in summer its Dahlia Garden ; the Tivoli Park with Children's Farm

Within the Church of St. Edward is an alabaster reredos inset with carvings in white marble, designed by the famous Victorian architect George Edmund Street R. A., which was presented by Lord Eldon in 1876.

The collection of Classical Antiquities feature Greek artefacts from the 3rd millennium – 5th century BC, Ancient Greek pottery, items from the Greek cities of the North Pontic Greek colonies, Hellenistic sculpture and jewellery, including engraved gems and cameos, such as the famous Gonzaga Cameo, Italic art from the 9th to 2nd century BC, Roman marble and bronze sculpture and applied art from the 1st century BC-4th century AD, including copies of Classical and Hellenistic Greek sculptures.

Near Rochefort are the famous red marble quarries of St Remy, and the old Trappist abbey of that name is now a Trappist seminary famous for brewing dark and sweet beers, especially the extremely popular Rochefort 10, whose deep dark-brown color and rich, fruity palate inspire a cult following.

He also sculpted a famous bronze male nude known as the Doryphoros (" Spear-carrier "), which survives in the form of numerous Roman marble copies.

One of the most famous monuments of the Paseo is El Ángel de la Independencia – a tall column with a gilded statue of a Winged Victory ( that bears resemblance with an angel, therefore its common name ) on its top and many marble statues on its base depicting the heroes of the Mexican War of Independence, built to commemorate the centennial of Mexico's independence in 1910.

The famous Acropolis of Athens is said to be constructed using the Pentelicon marble.

In 1983, Andrew Lloyd Webber purchased the theatre for £ 1. 3 million and made a series of renovations to the auditorium, including uncovering the famous marble and onyx panels lurking below a layer of paint.

The town's marble is famous for its quality.

From the marble well sunk 3 meters into the ground, the famous mineral water used to be dispensed to the public.

The existing throne, which is situated in the middle of the terrace ( iwan ), is made of the famous yellow marble of Yazd province.

Many of England's most famous cathedrals are adorned with Purbeck marble, and much of London was rebuilt in Portland and Purbeck stone after the Great Fire of London.

They are a set of axioms strong enough to prove many important facts about number theory and they allowed Gödel to establish his famous second incompleteness theorem.

Along with Miss Marple, Poirot is one of Christie's most famous and long-lived characters, appearing in 33 novels, one play, and more than 50 short stories published between 1920 and 1975 and set in the same era.

This bootstrapping quality of growth made Ford famous and set an example for other industries.

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

His two most famous works date from this period: the Lettres provinciales and the Pensées, the former set in the conflict between Jansenists and Jesuits.

Perhaps the most famous of these is Louis Eliasberg, the only collector thus far to assemble a complete set of known coins of the United States.

The earliest and most famous example is Code of Hammurabi which set the different punishment and compensation according to the different class / group of victims and perpetrators.

A famous example of his leadership in mathematics is his 1900 presentation of a collection of problems that set the course for much of the mathematical research of the 20th century.

It is arguably most famous as the location of the greatest works of James Joyce, including Ulysses, which is set in Dublin and full of topical detail.

The most famous is Franz Schubert's Piano Quintet in A major, known as " The Trout Quintet " for its set of variations in the fourth movement of Schubert's Die Forelle.

Edward Bellamy ( March 26, 1850 – May 22, 1898 ) was an American author and socialist, most famous for his utopian novel, Looking Backward, a Rip Van Winkle-like tale set in the distant future of the year 2000.

The movie opens with Scott's rendering of Patton's famous military " Pep Talk " to members of the Third Army, set against a huge American flag.

Their most famous records were set in the no-limits category, in which the divers are permitted to use weighted sleds to descend and air balloons for a speedy ascent.

In 1995, Nigel Short and Polgár were to play a game using the famous chess set, but British Museum refused.

Posthumous Portrait of Percy Shelley | Shelley Writing Prometheus Unbound ( Shelley ) | Prometheus Unbound ( 1845 ) On 17 September 1820, Severn set sail onboard the Maria Crowther from England to Italy with the famous English poet John Keats.

Plans were also set forth for several missions to explore and chart the territory, the most famous being the Lewis and Clark Expedition.

The most renowned of these was that of Hammurabi, as mentioned above, who was postumously famous for his set of laws, the Code of Hammurabi ( created ca.

Classical measure theory makes deep usage of the axiom of choice, which is fundamental to, first, distinction between measurable and non-measurable sets, the existence of the latter being behind such famous results as the Banach – Tarski paradox, and secondly the hierarchies of notions of measure captured by notions such as Borel algebras, which are an important source of intuitions in set theory.

In the post-war years, NNS built the famous passenger liner SS United States, which set a transatlantic speed record that still stands today.

In the 2nd century BCE a great library was set up in Pergamon that rivalled the famous Library of Alexandria.

He is most famous for his long-running novel series set in the fictional realm of Xanth.

Like his famous predecessor Innocent III, he set his mind on the achievement of two great goals: the recovery of the Holy Land in the Fifth Crusade and a spiritual reform of the entire Church.

Soon afterwards, in lectures on criminal jurisprudence he set forth his famous theory, that in administering justice judges should be strictly limited in their decisions by the penal code.

One of the most famous sites in the world, Stonehenge is composed of a circular setting of large standing stones set within earthworks.