Athena Statuette Bronze Animal Sculptured arts have captured our

Sculptured arts have captured our beloved monarch

Base: White marble with polished black wax finish

Giovanni Battista Piranesi: Visionary of Antiquity

In 27 BC the Senate awarded him the honorific Augustus ("the revered one")

lurching forward and roaring

Athena Statuette Bronze Animal Sculptured arts have captured ourAthena Giustiniani statuette. The marble Athena Giustiniani or Giustiniani Minerva is an Antonine Roman marble copy of a Greek sculpture of Pallas Athena, of the late fifth early fourth century BC. The sculpture was probably a cult image rather than a decorative culture trophy. It was discovered in the early 17th century, reputedly in the ruins of a ten sided nymphaeum on the Esquiline Hill which thus mistakenly identified as a "Temple of Minerva