A marble bust of Caligula restored to its original colours.

Brahms venerated Beethoven: in the composer's home, a marble bust of Beethoven looked down on the spot where he composed, and some passages in his works are reminiscent of Beethoven's style.

In 1785, the Russian Academy of Sciences put a marble bust of Leonhard Euler on a pedestal next to the Director's seat and, in 1837, placed a headstone on Euler's grave.

A marble bust of Aristotle

A partial marble bust ( sculpture ) | bust of Chrysippus, Roman era | Roman copy of a Hellenistic original, Louvre Museum

His marble portrait bust by Bernini was not considered a good likeness and was banished to a passageway.

As explained by Antonio Manetti, who knew Brunelleschi and who wrote his biography, Brunelleschi " was granted such honors as to be buried in the Basilica di Santa Maria del Fiore, and with a marble bust, which they say was carved from life, and placed there in perpetual memory with such a splendid epitaph.

This marble bust of Homer is in the Louvre.

The flat top is decorated by a trophy bearing the marble bust of Louis XIV looted by John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough | Marlborough from Tournai in 1709, weighing 30 tons.

The Duke was to have sat with his back to the great 30-tonne marble bust of his vanquished foe Louis XIV, positioned high above the south portico.

A marble bust of him stands in the Aberdeen Public Library and his portrait hangs in Marischal College.

Wishing to increase the prestige of the image of France and the French royal family, Colbert played an active role in bringing the great Italian architect-sculptor, Gian Lorenzo Bernini, to Paris ( June – October 1665 ), in order to design the new East Facade of the Louvre and sculpt a marble portrait bust of Louis XIV.

As well as the billiard table, the room contains a marble sculpture of Echo by Alfred Gatley and a bust of John Milton.

In 1892 Lady Cartier presented a marble bust of her husband to the Legislative Assembly of Quebec.

Jules Hardouin-Mansart, marble bust by Jean-Louis Lemoyne: a full-dress Baroque portrait bust demonstrates that the King's architect is no mere craftsman

The hospital had a bust made of him, named a hall of the new part of the hospital for him, and perpetuated his memory with a marble wall table in the chapel.

In 1811, she commissioned Irish-born sculptor Lawrence Gahagan to sculpt a marble bust of her ; this is now housed in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

The marble bust of a lady with a bunch of flowers ( Dama col Mazzolino ) in the Bargello at Florence is probably from the later 1470s.

It includes a marble bust of Boulton, set in a circular opening above two putti, one holding an engraving of the Soho Manufactory.

* a portrait bust of Piero de Medici ( 1453 ), notable as " the oldest authenticated example we have of a post-classical portrait of a living person in the form of a marble bust ".

The best of these includes the marble bust of Marietta Strozzi in Berlin that projects a soft, ethereal beauty that seems to originate from a marble surface that glows from within the stone.

In 1922, those employees of GER who died during the War were honoured on a large marble memorial on Liverpool Street's concourse, unveiled by Sir Henry Wilson.

Rupert Gunnis attributed the carved marble chimneypiece depicting two Roman goddesses to Sir Richard Westmacott.

The recently restored Sicilian marble statue of John Gray ( Irish politician ) | Sir John Gray, designed by Thomas Farrell and erected in 1879.

When he died in 1774, as his will requested, his heart was placed in an elegant marble urn ( costing £ 50 ) in the Mausoleum at West Wycombe by Sir Francis Dashwood.

It was sculpted by Australian sculptor Sir Bertram McKennal out of white Sicilian marble and stands on a grey granite plinth.

The church contains a number of marble carvings designed by Sir Christopher Wren for the private chapel in the Palace of Westminster.

In that year an Carrara marble statue of Queen Anne, sculpted by Francis Bird was presented to the town by Sir Jacob Bancks, who served as the local Member of Parliament from 1698 to 1715.

* a white Carrera marble statue of novelist Sir Walter Scott and his dog, the centrepiece of the Scott Monument in Edinburgh's Princes Street Gardens

One of its most famous works is the marble sculpture Genesis ( 1929 – 1931 ) by Sir Jacob Epstein.

Those ( in bronze ) of his fellow-artists Arthur Hackcoucoyer ( 1894 ), Briton Rivière and Sir WQ Orchardson ( 1895 ), Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema ( 1896 ), Sir Hubert von Herkomer and Sir John Everett Millais ( 1897 ), and of AJ Balfour are all striking likenesses, and are equalled by that in marble of Sir Frederick Bramwell ( for the Royal Institution ) and by many more.

Built in Ballochmyle Red Freestone it was opened in 1890 by Sir John Stirling Maxwell whose coat of arms is depicted in the entrance porch in the stone of the Hall and is recorded in marble in the floor.

His marble memorial gravestone in Aberdeen was unveiled by Sir Harry Lauder.

Monuments in the church include one dated 1505 to John and Maria Abney, another to George and Ellen Abney dated 1571 and a Lt. General Sir Charles Hastings ' black and white marble tomb who died in 1823.

The bronze and marble sculpture was unveiled by the Governor of Victoria Sir James Gobbo in March 1999.

It is built of granite, sandstone, marble and bronze, features imagery of the Trossachs, and is topped by a figure of Sir Walter Scott's Lady of the Lake.

Another memorial to his memory can be found in York Minster Made of black marble with bronze figures and designed by Sir Bertram Mackennal of Melbourne, Australia.

Sir James Hall also made the first contribution to the experimental study of metamorphic rocks by converting chalk into marble by heating it in a closed gun-barrel, which prevented the

In the next door he finds the marble lady and Sir Percivale, alive, well, and in love.

Port Shepstone was founded in 1867 when marble was discovered nearby and is named after Sir Theophilus Shepstone of the Natal government of the 1880s.

The northern galleries are also flanked with the white marble busts of Sir John Sandfield Macdonald ; Prince Edward, Prince of Wales ( later King Edward VII ); Alexandra, Princess of Wales ( later Queen Alexandra ); and Sir Étienne-Paschal Taché.