The Charles Townley Vase Only - Roman Marble Bacchic Vase Nike from the famous discus thrower

from the famous discus thrower statue created by the Greek sculptor Myron

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his life size Napoleon riding Marengo stands in the center of Paris

In these he achieves the Mannerist ideal in elongation and in concious courtly elegance

The Charles Townley Vase Only - Roman Marble Bacchic Vase Nike from the famous discus throwerThe Vase That Inspired Keats The Charles Townley Vase is one of the most celebrated works of classical antiquitya Roman marble vase of the 2nd century AD, believed to have been one of the main inspirations for the Romantic poet John Keats (1795 1821) when he wrote his immortal "Ode on a Grecian Urn" in 1819: What men or gods are these? What maidens loth? What mad pursuit? What struggle to escape? What pipes and timbrels? What wild ecstasy? John Keats,