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Join Becky’s Square Challenge for October: PastSquares
Gothic elements in the Church of St. John the Baptist, Matera, Basilicata, c. 1229.
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The Riace Bronzes or Riace Warriors, found off the coast of Calabria in 1972, are incredible. Sculpted of bronze in the mid-5th century BCE, probably in Greece, they are thought to be part of a cargo from a sunken ship. After years of conservation, the two statues are housed at the National Museum of Magna Grecia in Reggio Calabria.
Each life-sized bronze figure would have held a weapon in their right hand and have worn a shield on their left forearm.
Bari, Puglia, Italy
Transept dome, Basilica di S. Croce, Lecce, Puglia, Italy.