Did You Know....? - Art for Arts Sake


The equestrian statue of the Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius - the largest bronze Roman sculpture in existence - was once used as a gibbet. In 965, Pop John XIII ordered an unruly city prefect to be hanged from the statue by his hair.

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