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Artist Unknown

8 works in the collection

Works by Artist Unknown

A headless winged marble goddess in wind-swept drapery strides forward on the prow of a stone ship at the top of a grand staircase — Winged Victory of Samothrace, c. 200–190 BC

Winged Victory of Samothrace

Artist Unknown · c. 200–190 BC

A weathered stone angel with horns, a leering face and an exposed ribcage stands before a church bell tower in a Roman square — prop statue from the film Angels & Demons, 2009

Angels and Demons – The Movie Prop

Artist Unknown & Gian Lorenzo Bernini · 2008

A skeleton dressed in silver armor, a crimson fringed skirt and a gold sunburst halo sits enthroned in a painted niche, a wax mask over its skull — Bejeweled Skeleton of Saint Deodatus, Rheinau, translated from Rome 1690

Bejeweled Skeleton of Saint Deodatus

Artist Unknown & Paul Koudounaris · Translated from Rome 1690

A weathered stone statue of a young woman with a braided crown of hair, head bowed, holding her cloak open like wings above the rooftops and cathedral dome of Florence — Tombstone of Silvia Marini nei De Rogati, San Miniato al Monte

Tombstone of Silvia Marini nei De Rogati

Artist Unknown · After 1947

Two white theater masks hang on black ribbons, one weeping with a downturned mouth and one laughing with a wide grin — sock and buskin, the masks of tragedy and comedy

Sock and Buskin

Artist Unknown

A muscular nude man with long curling hair stands against a dark wall, one arm extended into a huge ribbed, bat-like wing — Artificial Wings, after Leonardo da Vinci

Artificial Wings

Artist Unknown · c. 2008

Three small gold figures on a gold base: falcon-headed Horus and Isis with a horned sun disk raise their hands toward Osiris crouching on a blue lapis lazuli pillar — Triad of Osorkon II, Egypt, 9th century BC

Triad of Osorkon II: Osiris, Isis and Horus

Artist Unknown · c. 874–850 BC (reign of Osorkon II)

A colossal bearded god sits enthroned with bare marble torso and bronze-colored drapery, holding a scepter and a small Victory, an eagle at his feet — Statue of Jupiter, Roman, late 1st century AD, State Hermitage Museum

Seated Zeus (Statue of Jupiter, Hermitage)

Artist Unknown & Phidias · Late 1st century AD (after Phidias's Zeus, c. 435 BC)