"One wonders what will an audience in a hundred years think of it."
Curator Carlos Picón on the "Statue of Dionysos leaning on a female figure ('Hope Dionysos')"
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Why this Dionysus statue is the centerpiece of the Roman court
"One wonders what will an audience in a hundred years think of it."
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Pacetti, Vincenzo
27 BCE–68 CE