Athena Statuette Bronze Animal A Study of a Male

A Study of a Male Torso

creating an authentic bronze finish that captures the warmth

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

crisp deep realistic detail throughout

Athena Statuette Bronze Animal A Study of a MaleAthena 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