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    The Capitoline Wolf (Italian: Lupa Capitolina) is a bronze sculpture depicting a scene from the legend of the founding of Rome. The sculpture shows a...
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    The Capitoline Wolf Statue (Romanian: Statuia Lupoaicei) is a statue located in I.C. Brătianu Boulevard in Bucharest, Romania. It is a historical monument...
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    The Capitoline Wolf suckling the twins Romulus and Remus is a symbol of Rome, Italy. Copies of the statues have been donated by Italy to various places...
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    Capitoline Wolf is a statue located in Timișoara's Victory Square, between the Metropolitan Cathedral and the Palace of Culture. Copy of the famous Capitoline...
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  • statues: Capitoline Wolf, Chișinău, Moldova Capitoline Wolf Statue, Cluj-Napoca, Romania Capitoline Wolf, Bucharest, Romania Capitoline Wolf, Timișoara...
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    The Capitoline Wolf Statue is a sculpture of a she-wolf nursing Romulus and Remus in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. The bronze sculpture on a granite...
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    The Capitoline Museums (Italian: Musei Capitolini) are a group of art and archaeological museums in Piazza del Campidoglio, on top of the Capitoline Hill...
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    gifts, in 4th century BC Euritria, perhaps circa 330–340. The famous Capitoline Wolf may be of Etruscan or Old Latin origin. But, a discovery during its...
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  • has been living and working in Warsaw since 2012. Look at Me (new Capitoline Wolf) is a 2011 art installation by Paweł Wocial. The installation is 210...
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    28°49′42.75″E / 47.0229250°N 28.8285417°E / 47.0229250; 28.8285417 The Capitoline Wolf (Romanian: Lupoaica Capitolină) is a monument in Central Chișinău,...
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    The wolf (Canis lupus; pl.: wolves), also known as the gray wolf or grey wolf, is a large canine native to Eurasia and North America. More than thirty...
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    by a she-wolf, and fed meat by ravens. In Roman mythology wolves are mainly associated to Mars, god of war and agriculture. The Capitoline Wolf nurses Romulus...
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    Feral child (redirect from Wolf child)
    the Special Olympics for Uganda. Hessian wolf-children: 15–7  (1304, 1341 and 1344) lived with the Eurasian wolf in the forests of Hesse: The first boy...
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    Piazza del Campidoglio ("Capitoline Square") is a public square (piazza) on the top of the ancient Capitoline Hill, between the Roman Forum and the Campus...
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    The Capitoline Wolf Statue (Romanian: Statuia Lupoaicei) in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, is located on Eroilor Boulevard, in the city centre on the banks of...
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    Lithuanian Chronicles, the legend shares certain similarities with the Capitoline Wolf and possibly reflected Lithuanian desire to showcase their legendary...
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    central Bucharest. It depicts a nude Trajan holding in his arms the Capitoline Wolf, which is doubled as the Dacian Draco, the war standard of the Dacians...
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    they fled Rome, taking with them the statue of the she-wolf suckling the infants (Capitoline Wolf), thus appropriating that symbol for the town. Additionally...
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  • La lupa Capitolina is the Italian name of the Capitoline Wolf, the famous statue of the mythical she-wolf in the National Museum of Rome. La lupa, a 1953...
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    as having been raised by a she-wolf which suckled the infants, as depicted in the iconic image of the Capitoline Wolf. The Greek god Zeus was said to...
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    Romulus and Remus (category She-wolf (Roman mythology))
    Albertoni, Margherita, et al. The Capitoline Museums: Guide. Milan: Electa, 2006. For information on the Capitoline She-Wolf. Beard, M., North, J., Price,...
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    Creangă. It was installed in 1982 at Pedagogical University of Chișinău. Capitoline Wolf (Lupa Capitolina) from Chișinău, was given by the municipality of Rome...
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    the Capitoline Wolf on the reverse of a 50 lira note. Ultimately, this design was derived from an Etruscan bronze sculpture of the Capitoline Wolf, that...
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    of Wales. p. 11. ISBN 9781905125876. The she-wolf is memorialised in the Medieval bronze Capitoline Wolf and is a symbol of Rome. Plutarch, "The Life...
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  • Roman mythology, the Capitoline Wolf nursed Romulus and Remus, sons of Mars and future founders of Rome. As a consequence, the she-wolf became a symbol of...
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    the Iron Age, each hill between the sea and the Capitoline Hill was topped by a village (on the Capitoline, a village is attested since the end of the 14th...
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    The Capitoline Wolf, long considered an Etruscan bronze, feeding the twins Romulus and Remus...
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    King of Rome Capitoline Wolf Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Details First monarch Romulus Last monarch Lucius Tarquinius Superbus Formation 753 BC Abolition...
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    but more likely reflects an indigenous Roman tradition, given the Capitoline Wolf which likely dates to the sixth century BC. Regardless, by the third...
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    who were abandoned as infants but nursed by the she-wolf, as portrayed in the famous Capitoline Wolf bronze sculpture. The goddess Rumina was invoked among...
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