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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 580585, member: 5833&quot;][ATTACH=full]174636[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]174637[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Wonder who first made the alterations from Thorvaldsen&#039;s original to the way the scene is rendered on cameos.&nbsp; (Will have to keep an eye out for ones that stay closer.)&nbsp; I understand why his helmet was put back on Mars&#039; head; if left to the side, the width needed for an oval to fit the whole scene would then have had an awful lot of empty space above &amp; below.&nbsp; But why was the other change made?&nbsp; Usually it goes the other way, with the cameo more modest than the original.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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