To climax her Roman revels, she was thrown out of the swanky Hotel Excelsior after she had run naked through its marble halls screaming for help.

The marble is a Hellenistic or Roman copy of a bronze original by the Greek sculptor Leochares, made between 350 and 325 BCE.

** Farnese Atlas, a 2nd-century Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic sculpture of the Titan, " Atlas "

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

There had been large marble reliefs used previously in Roman churches, but for most patrons, sculpted marble altarpieces were far too costly.

Roman marble Bust of Artemis after Cephisodotus the Elder | Kephisodotos ( Musei Capitolini ), Rome.

In ancient literature, we find a reference to the workings of water-powered marble saws close to Trier, now Germany, by the late 4th century poet Ausonius ; about the same time, these mill types seem also to be indicated by the Christian saint Gregory of Nyssa from Anatolia, demonstrating a diversified use of water-power in many parts of the Roman Empire.

Though some Roman patrons ordered marble replicas of the specifically Anatolian " Diana " of Ephesus, where the Temple of Artemis stood, Diana was usually depicted for educated Romans in her Greek guise.

Above all, Hadrian patronized the arts: Hadrian's Villa at Tibur ( Tivoli ) was the greatest Roman example of an Alexandrian garden, recreating a sacred landscape, lost in large part to the despoliation of the ruins by the Cardinal d ' Este who had much of the marble removed to build Villa d ' Este.

Heracles as a boy strangling a snake ( marble, Roman artwork, 2nd century CE )

Hermes Fastening his Sandal, early Imperial Roman marble copy of a Lysippus | Lysippan bronze ( Louvre Museum )

Leda and the Swan, Roman marble possibly reflecting a lost work by Timotheos ; restored ( Prado )

In the center of the 40-foot-long Spanish marble carving is a tablet displaying Roman numerals I through X, with some numbers partially hidden.

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

The Dying Gaul, a Roman marble copy of a Hellenistic work of the late 3rd century BCE Capitoline Museums, Rome

During the 1930s, Benito Mussolini placed an antique marble Roman column at the point where the river arises, inscribed (" Here is born the river / sacred to the destinies of Rome ").

Evidence of this comes from a marble slab discovered near Caput Bovis, the site of a Roman fort.

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

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

In front lies the sloping Piazza del Quirinale where the pair of gigantic Roman marble " Horse Tamers " representing Castor and Pollux, found in the Baths of Constantine, were re-erected in 1588.

When Valerian sunk under the weight of shame and grief, his skin, stuffed with straw, and formed into the likeness of a human figure, was preserved for ages in the most celebrated temple of Persia ; a more real monument of triumph, than the fancied trophies of brass and marble so often erected by Roman vanity.

At the beginning of it stands the marble triumphal arch with a single archway, and without bas-reliefs, erected in his honour in 115 by the Senate and Roman people.

* The marble Arch of Trajan, 18 m high, erected in 114 / 115 as an entrance to the causeway atop the harbour wall in honour of the emperor who had made the harbour, is one of the finest Roman monuments in the Marche.

In the early 19th century the foundations for the extensive collection of sculpture began to be laid and Greek, Roman and Egyptian artefacts dominated the antiquities displays.

A Roman Bust ( sculpture ) | portrait bust said to be of Josephus

In the galleries paralleling the Seine, much of the museum's Roman sculpture is displayed.

The sculpture department comprises work created before 1850 that does not belong in the Etruscan, Greek, and Roman department.

Bust ( sculpture ) | Bust inscribed Sappho of Eressos, Roman copy of a Greek original of the 5th century BC

Artemis with a Hind, a Ancient Rome | Roman copy of an Ancient Greece | Ancient Greek sculpture, c325 BC, by Leochares

Penelope is recognizable in Greek and Roman works, from Attic vase-paintings — the Penelope Painter is recognized by his representations of her — to Roman sculpture copying or improvising upon classical Greek models, by her seated pose, by her reflective gesture of leaning her cheek on her hand, and by her protectively crossed knees, reflecting her long chastity in Odysseus ' absence, an unusual pose in any other figure.

The Palace of Fine Art, designed by architect Cass Gilbert, featured a grand interior sculpture court based on the Roman Baths of Caracalla.

The town has the enormous new Orthodox Cathedral Church of the Trinity, a recently completed Roman Catholic Church of the Nativity and the Mask of Sorrow memorial, a huge sculpture in memory of Stalin's victims, designed by Ernst Neizvestny.

* The Venus of Badalona is a small Roman sculpture in white marble that symbolized the wealth of the city in Roman times.

In 2007, a Roman art | Roman-era bronze sculpture of " Artemis and the Stag " was sold at Sotheby's in New York for United States dollar | US $ 28. 6 million, by far exceeding its estimates and at the time setting the new record as List of most expensive sculptures | the most expensive sculpture as well as work from antiquity ever sold at auction.

A Roman period, 2nd century CE sculpture found near the Ioannis Varvakis | Varvakeion school reflects the type of the restored Athena Parthenos presently in the National Archaeological Museum, Athens | National Archaeological Museum, Athens

The construction and sculpture projects at Caesaria and another city Volubilis, display a rich mixture of Egyptian, Greek and Roman architectural styles.

The subject of Niobe and the destruction of the Niobids was part of the repertory of Attic vase-painters and inspired sculpture groups and wall frescoes as well as relief carvings on Roman sarcophagi.

Other assertions have been attempted by scholars to prove the origins of the statue on the basis of the unfinished back, the appearance of the drapery, and the technique used with the drilling of the hair ; however scholars cannot conclusively use any of these arguments to their advantage because exceptions exist in both Roman and Greek sculpture.

Dionysus leading the Horae ( Neo-Attic Roman sculpture | Roman relief, 1st century ).

Among very few representations of Protesilaus, a sculpture by Deinomenes is just a passing mention in Pliny's Natural History ; the outstanding surviving examples are two Roman copies of a lost mid-fifth century Greek bronze original represent Protesilaus at his defining moment, one of them in a torso the British Museum, the other at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

To the château, he added one of the largest art collections in Europe and the largest collection of ancient Roman sculpture in France.