The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . Fig. 14. — Bronze heads found in 1880 under the English church, Via del Augustus. 2. Nero. 3, 4. Portrait head of the first century — name unknown. THE SACK OF THE GOTHS IN 410 69 The first is the treasure-trove unearthed in 1849, a fewweeks before the storming of Rome by the Frencharmy under General Oudinot, beneath tlie house at , Vicolo delle Pahiie, now Vicolo dell Atleta. It con-sisted of a marble copy of the bronze Apoxyomenos ofLysippus ; of the bronze horse, now in the Palazzo deiConservatori,

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The destruction of ancient Rome : a sketch of the history of the monuments . Fig. 14. — Bronze heads found in 1880 under the English church, Via del Augustus. 2. Nero. 3, 4. Portrait head of the first century — name unknown. THE SACK OF THE GOTHS IN 410 69 The first is the treasure-trove unearthed in 1849, a fewweeks before the storming of Rome by the Frencharmy under General Oudinot, beneath tlie house at , Vicolo delle Pahiie, now Vicolo dell Atleta. It con-sisted of a marble copy of the bronze Apoxyomenos ofLysippus ; of the bronze horse, now in the Palazzo deiConservatori, described b} Emil Braun as an uniquework, a masterpiece, and a genuine Grecian antique ;of a bronze foot with a particularly ornamental caliga,which may possibly have belonged to the rider of thehorse ; of a bronze bull, and many other fragments ofless importance. The second discovery was made September 15, 1880,at the corner of the Via del Babuino and Via delGesu e Maria where the English Church of All Saintswas in process of erection.^ The bronzes lay nineteenfeet b

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