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Two impressive ebony statues of Ethiopian Warriors were carved by Andrea Brustolon for the Venier family in the first years of the eighteenth century. Nude, very tall and virile, they are armed with clubs, have very white eyes in glass paste and each has a horse's head at his feet. The arrangement of these is possibly based on the basalt and porphyry Egyptian statues that Brustolon had had the chance to see during his stay in Rome.
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