Sentence examples for marble group from inspiring English sources

In 1496, Michelangelo carved a marble group of Eros, sleeping on the lion skin of Hercules.

It was provided by a badly mutilated marble group that had been removed from a monument still in Rome.

There are also versions of the circa-second century B.C. Laocoon, a marble group representing the Trojan priest and his two sons being crushed by snakes.

In the catalog, Mr. Heintz recognizes in the Neumann sculpture a marble group of three satyrs fighting a serpent, described in a letter which was written by the banker Nofri Tornabuoni on Jan.

At the Sotheby's New York sale of Nov. 8, a marble group of Leda holding the Greek god Zeus in the form of a swan was expected to go for $2 to $3 million, plus the sale charge.

The 19th-century "plaster cast," elevated to the more exalted status of "a marble group, Roman Imperial (circa first century A.D)." was likewise consigned to Sotheby's for the sale scheduled on June 11.

It was not completed until 1676, when three marble groups were placed in the bays at the back.

The engaged pillars of the bridge are topped by piers supporting marble groups that are long gone.

The game is played with 49 glass or ceramic marbles grouped together on a 2m-diameter concrete cylinder raised 7cm off the ground and covered in sand.

In jihadi-speak, this is known as "marbling": local groups variegate their formal ties with global movements when strategically or financially convenient.

Beneath the soaring marble ceilings, the group of mostly African-American activists joined hands in a prayer for local control.