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| attributed to Tullio Lombardo Alexander the Great and Campaspe before 1532 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
Campaspe, fabled mistress of Alexander the Great (sublimely rendered above by Tullio Lombardo – or by one of his Venetian colleagues) was the subject here a few years back of painted depictions by several imaginative Europeans.
The endless proliferation of marbles at the Hermitage in Saint Petersburg (somewhat resembling the accumulated abundance at the Prado in Madrid) throws up these startling sublimities here and there. They exists alongside an even greater abundance of historical idiosyncrasies.
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Composite Bust - Head of Athena ca. 1680-1720 marble and alabaster Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| after Gianlorenzo Bernini Anonymous copy of the Head of Medusa ca. 1775-1800 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Allegorical Figure ca. 1700-1725 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Alexander the Great ca. 1775-1800 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Composite Bust - Roman Woman ca. 1775-1800 marble and onyx Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Medallion Portrait of a Woman ca. 1700-1725 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Satyr ca. 1650-1700 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Minerva ca. 1775-1800 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Marie Anne Collot Denis Diderot 1772 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Roman Man ca. 1775-1800 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Anonymous Italian sculptor Herm-Bust of Two-faced Janus ca. 1775-1800 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean-Antoine Houdon Girl from Frascati 1775 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Jean-Jacques Caffieri Madame du Barry ca. 1770-80 marble Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |