Flanked by marble urns and alabaster lamps, they seemed to be posing for a tribal portrait.

His early Roman commissions included terracotta and some marble portrait busts, while he supported himself with small works like crucifixes.

The Pentelic marble portrait head of Arcadius ( illustration ) was discovered in Istanbul close to the Forum Tauri, in June 1949, in excavating foundations for new buildings of the University at Beyazit.

On the exterior wall of the " Hôpital Necker – Enfants Malades ", where Laennec wrote Mediate auscultation, near the entrance of the hospital in 149, Rue de Sèvres, there is a marble memorial tablet with an engraved portrait of Laennec and this inscription: " Dans cet hôpital Laennec découvrit l ' auscultation.

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

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.

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

* 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 ".

Also lost were Hans Holbein the Younger's iconic Portrait of Henry VIII and Gian Lorernzo Bernini's marble portrait bust of King Charles I.

The portrait statues of John and Enriqueta Rylands in white marble, in the reading room, were sculpted by John Cassidy who also executed the allegorical group of ' Theology, Science and Art ' in the vestibule.

Hanging beside his lovely black and white marble chimney-piece in the Princess ' Room is a painting which is believed to be a preliminary sketch for the famous Van Dyck portrait " Children of Charles I.

The first collection consisted of 78 paintings, two marble busts, one portrait miniature, and one bronze sculpture.

In an auction at Bonhams, London on 19 April 2007, the 74 cm high white marble portrait bust of Maharajah Duleep Singh by Victorian sculptor John Gibson RA in Rome in 1859 fetched £ 1. 7 million (£ 1. 5 million plus premium and tax ).

Highlights include two monumental 3, 000 pound statues of the Egyptian lion-headed goddess Sekhmet, the Walters Mummy, alabaster reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II, Greek gold jewelry including the Greek bracelets from Olbia on the shores of the Black Sea, the Praxitelean Satyr, a large assemblage of Roman portrait heads, a Roman bronze banquet couch and marble sarcophagi from the tombs of the prominent Licinian and Calpurnian families.

Today a portrait of Morton in his Scottish strip stands at the top of the marble staircase at Ibrox's Main Stand such is his enduring stature at the club.

It was in this capacity that he produced some of his finest work, notably marble portrait busts of the Empress Josephine, which was also modelled in bisque Sèvres porcelain, and of Queen Hortense ( about 1810 ), which was also cast in bronze by Ravrio.

His imposing white stone and marble tomb in the form of a shrine with its own gabled roof, replete with his carved portrait, was erected by public subscription in 1891 over his grave at the Congregationalist model non-denominational garden cemetery, Abney Park Cemetery, Stoke Newington, London.

The Musée du Luxembourg has his Anacreon ( 1852 ), Faucheur ( 1855 ), and the marble bust of Mgr Darboy ; the Versailles Museum the portrait of Thiers ; the Sorbonne Library the marble bust of Victor le Clerc, doyen de la faculté des lettres.

He was buried in the crypt of St Paul's Cathedral, a perk of being the cathedral's surveyor, his marble tomb consists of his profile portrait, suspended from an Ionic column, surrounded by rich embellishment.

There is also a tablet to her in the Shakespeare Memorial with a portrait figure, and the marble pulpit in the Shakespeare church with her portrait as Saint Helena was given in her memory by her husband.

Around that statue in the green park where children play and lovers walk in twos and there is a glowing view of the whole city, in that park are the rows of marble busts of Garibaldi's fallen men, the ones who one day rushed out of the Porta San Pancrazio and, under fire all the way, up the long, straight narrow lane to take, then lose the high ground of the Villa Doria Pamphili.

Canova's marble statue George Washington was commissioned by the State of North Carolina after the war of 1812 to be displayed in its Capitol Building.

* the marble statue Victory ( 1540 ), Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

* the marble statue Leda with the Swan in the Museo Nazionale del Bargello in Florence.

* the marble statue Parnassus ( 1563 ), Museo Nazionale del Bargello, Florence

The Diana of Versailles a 2nd-Century marble statue of Diana, copied from an earlier Greek original.

This marble statue of a youth on horseback is believed to represent a member of the Julio-Claudian dynasty

In Elizabethan gardens " the plants were almost incidental ", and instead the design focus was on sculptures, including four wooden obelisks painted to resemble porphyry and a marble fountain with a statue of two Greek mythological figures.

There is a life-sized marble statue of Leda and the Swan at the Jai Vilas Palace Museum in Gwalior, Northern Madhya Pradesh, India.

* The Yale School of Architecture in New Haven, Connecticut, features a Roman marble statue of Minerva in its 4th floor atrium.

Between 1493 and 1494 he bought a block of marble for a larger than life statue of Hercules, which was sent to France and subsequently disappeared sometime circa 18th century.

To give two examples, the marble statue of Cristo della Minerva ( church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva, Rome ) was covered by added drapery, as it remains today, and the statue of the naked child Jesus in Madonna of Bruges ( The Church of Our Lady in Bruges, Belgium ) remained covered for several decades.

The most interesting pieces of the interior are a font with marble basin ( 12th – 13th century ), a silver statue of St. Lucy by Pietro Rizzo ( 1599 ), a ciborium by Luigi Vanvitelli, and a statue of the Madonna della Neve (" Madonna of the Snow ", 1512 ) by Antonello Gagini.

* Gladstone, Queensland, Australia was named after him and has a 19th century marble statue on display in its town museum.

Built between 1386 and 1577, it hosts the world's largest collection of marble statues and has a widely visible golden Madonna statue on top of the spire, nicknamed by the people of Milan as Madunina ( the little Madonna ), that became one of the symbols of the city.

The Dying Gaul, an ancient Roman marble copy of a lost ancient Greek statue, thought to have been executed in bronze, commissioned some time between 230 BC – 220 BC by Attalos I of Pergamon to honor his victory over the Galatians

It is a marble statue of a standing male nude.

** Colossus of Constantine, a giant bronze and marble statue of Constantine the Great

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

* The state of Indiana commissioned a marble statue of Wallace dressed in a military uniform, which was made by the sculptor Andrew O ' Connor.

It houses a marble statue of the Madonna of Trapani, which might be the work of Nino Pisano, and with the museum Agostino Pepoli.

The centrepiece of the gardens is a marble statue on a high pedestal, of the mortally wounded Achilles ( Greek: Αχιλλεύς Θνήσκων, Achilleús Thnēskōn, Achilles Dying ) without hubris and wearing only a simple cloth and an ancient Greek hoplite helmet.

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.