Among the greatest American sculptors and monument builders of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Augustus Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin, Ireland in 1848.

Marble statue of Emperor Augustus at the National Archaeological Museum in Rome, Italy. A team of archaeologists may have uncovered the remains of the villa where the emperor is thought to have died.

As soon as you enter the renovated late-1930s building at Piazza Augusto Imperatore in the Campo Marzio, you’re greeted by a life-size ancient marble statue of Augustus Caesar from the Torlonia ...