Marforio
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Marphurius or Marforio (; Medieval , ) is one of the talking statues of Rome. Marforio maintained a friendly rivalry with the most famous talking statue, Pasquin. At the talking statues, pasquinades — irreverent satires poking fun at public figures — were posted in the 16th and 17th centuries.
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- Statue.italic title
- no
- Statue.title
- Marphurius
- Statue.image_file
- Marforio - Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini - Rome 2016 (2).jpg
- Statue.caption
- Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini
- Statue.other_language_1
- Italian
- Statue.other_title_1
- Marforio
- Statue.year
- 1st century AD
- Statue.type
- Talking statues of Rome
- Statue.subject
- OceanusThe name is a corruption of Latin mare in foro, "the sea in the forum" (inscribed near the statue's original location)
- Statue.city
- Palazzo Nuovo, Capitoline Museums
- Statue.image_size
- 270
- Statue.mapframe frame width
- 270
- Statue.mapframe
- yes
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- Click on the map for a fullscreen view
- Statue.mapframe zoom
- 12
- Statue.mapframe marker
- monument
- Statue.mapframe wikidata
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- Marforio - Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini - Rome 2016 (2).jpg
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- Marforio
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- The statue and its location
- See also
- Notes
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Marphurius or Marforio (; Medieval , ) is one of the talking statues of Rome. Marforio maintained a friendly rivalry with the most famous talking statue, Pasquin. At the talking statues, pasquinades — irreverent satires poking fun at public figures — were posted in the 16th and 17th centuries.
==The statue and its location== Marforio is a large 1st century Roman marble sculpture of a reclining bearded river god or Oceanus, which in the past has been variously identified as a depiction of Jupiter, Neptune, or the Tiber. It was the humanist and antiquarian Andrea Fulvio who first identified it as a river god, in 1527. The Marfoi was a landmark in Rome from the late 12th century. Poggio Bracciolini wrote of it as one of the sculptures surviving from Antiquity, and in the early 16th century it was still near the Arch of Septimius Severus, where the various authors reported it.
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