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a painting of a person laying down on the ground next to a wall and ceiling

View A vestal virgin reclining near a holy fire in a tomb By Giuseppe Bernardino Bison; bodycolour; 17½ x 12 5/8 in. (443 x 296 mm.); . Access more artwork lots and estimated & realized auction prices on MutualArt.

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three women in white robes standing around a fire with flames coming out of the middle

An artistic representation of the Vestal Virgins in their white robes, tending to the sacred fire in the Temple of Vesta.

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an old painting of a woman with flowers in her hand

This illustration, by the German artist Nathaniel Sichel (c. 1843-1907), strives to re-create a member of the ancient Roman religious order of the Vestal Virgins. According to the ancient sources, candidates for the female-exclusive priestly office were selected when the girls were between the ages of six and ten. After being chosen, the new Vestal […]

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the statue is holding a plate in her hands

Wondering what I would post today, I checked my emails after friend Dino had been working on my computer remotely. One of the emails was an onsend about beautifully crafted veiled marble statues. The work is amazing so I set it out below: This sculpture below, “The Veiled Virgin”, is the work of an Italian artist of the nineteenth century, Giovanni Strazza. Think of the epic difficulty of modelling a veil on a face of a material that is among the toughest on the planet, marble (mineral…

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