Pericles on Column Base Ajax The Great French Schoolsculpture

French Schoolsculpture

looking downward and to dexter

it brings historical character and cultural significance to interior displays or sheltered garden settings

Square base for stable display

often she wears ear drops of pearls as ornaments

Pericles on Column Base Ajax The Great French SchoolsculpturePericles, a bust, set on a column base. A Grand Tour souvenir. Pericles, which means "Surrounded by Glory"; was a prominent and influential statesman, orator, and general of Athens during the city's golden agespecifically, the time between the Persian and Peloponnesian wars. He was descended, through his mother, from the powerful and historically influential Alcmaeonid family, and was known as the first citizen of Athens. He started the ambitious