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Os Gêmeos Sem Titulo (Untitled)

2008-2010 Mixed media

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Eduardo Basualdo Split Knife/Infinito

2012 Plinth, metal, wood

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Richard Meier Model Museum

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Marcelo Moscheta Anti-Gravitational Magnetic Pole 62 Stones 2009

62 photographs on transparency film, aluminum boxes, LEDs lamps, wires and electrical components, PVC, plexiglass, iron and steel wires

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Dan Flavin

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From Vespasian to Trajan

Roman Portraits AD 68–117

The suicide of Nero in 68 led to civil war, with three emperors in a row during 69. An army commander, Vespasian, brought a new dynasty to power, the Flavians, His sons Titus and Domitian succeeded hi, the latter being murdered in 96. A System of adoption was then introduced, with Trajan as the first of the ‘Adoptive Emperors’.

Room 13 has imperial portraits in three typical sizes ,colossal, natural and miniature. Just as typical are the bust and statue formats. Like other emperors, Trajan might appear in the guise of Greek Hero or with divine attributes. Wealthy Romans followed suit: A fine lady might become Venus herself! her coiffure joins others in the room in a show of hairstyles.

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Cast of Torso Found on Thasos 1987

Painted Reconstruction of Torso Found on Thasos

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Figures of woman wearing numerous pieces of jewellery and splendid garments, carrying flower buds or a lotus symbolizing rebirth, might be goddesses themselves. The painted head was once covered by an added veil.

600-500 BC

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Goddess and a Place of Sacrifice?

The goddess of the underworld sits on a throne, guarded by sphinxes and holding in her hand a pomegranate which by virtue of its multitude of seeds and blood-red juice was a symbol of fertility and new life. The goddess has been placed in a tomb. The head can be removed, and the figure is hallow throughout. Perhaps the actual statue was used to pour libations through to the ancestors and the gods in the underworld.

ca. 450 BC

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A Roman Boy

Found in the Licinian Tomb in Rome AD 30-50. Marble.

The coiffure with the hair combed forward corresponds to the hairstyle of the adults. Child-portraits did not become common in Rome until the reign of Augustus.

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Herman Wilhem Bissen 1798-1868 Danish

A Victorious Danish Soldier 1850-51

Plaster

Bissen pays homage to the Danish food soldiers (privates) from the war in 1848-51, where the Danish government prevented the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein from leaving the Kingdom of Denmark. The sculpture springs form the same political soil as the landscape paintings form the period and is fueled by the same nationalist sentiments.

The sculpture marks the first time in European history that a memorial to military victory did not show a goddess, a general. or a monarch, but a simple, anonymous soldier from the battlefields. However, the figure’s face bears a striking resemblance to the painter Johan Thomas Lundbye, who fell in the war.

The sculpture is a preliminary study for the war memorial commemorating the battle at Fredericia in 1849: the monument was erected in 1858.

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Benedetto Briosco 1460-1526 Italian

Head of a Woman. Fragment of a statue 1477-1514

Marble

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Peter Land 1966- Danish

Untitled (Sitting man, with dots on blue carpet) 2003

Painted fiberglass cast, cloth, blanket

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