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A crumbling, long-forgotten statue with an unusual erect phallus might be a Michelangelo. Renaissance scholars want hard evidence.
In a place of honor was a life-size marble statue of the Greek god Pan with a wicked expression, a forked beard, and an 8-inch erect penis leaning left. The cardinal, it appears, built a pillared ...
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Rome's Colossus of Constantine
These remains, dug up in 1486, comprise an "enormous marble head with staring ... "Jupiter would have had a beard, and on the face of the statue you can see traces of a beard," Salvatore Settis ...