Sunday, October 25, 2015

Capitoline Wolf


Capitoline Wolf
Rome, Italy
500-480 BCE
Bronze
Best-known Etruscan statue of the classical period
One of the most memorable portrayals of an animal in the history of art 
According to the legend, this is the she-wolf that nursed Romulus and Remus when they were abandoned as infants 

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