The winged Victory called "The Brescia Victory" is a "pastiche" assembled in Roman age sticking a Hellenistic bronze (3rd century BC) showing  <i><a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Aphrodite" class="mw-redirect" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a> mirroring herself in <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Ares&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Ares (page does not exist)">Ares</a>' shield</i> to a pair of newly-created wings, in order to trasform it into a <i>Victory writing on the shield the name of the conqueror</i>. The statue had been hidden beneath the <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tempio_capitolino_a_Brescia" class="mw-redirect" title="Tempio capitolino a Brescia">Capitoline temple in Brescia</a>, together with other bronze objects, to prevent the consequences of a possible sack of the town in the 4th or 5th century, and unearthed only in 1826. It is now exhibited in the archaeological <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Museo_di_Santa_Giulia_a_Brescia" class="mw-redirect" title="Museo di Santa Giulia a Brescia">Santa Giulia Museum, in Brescia</a>, Italy. Picture by <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>, June 25 2011.
<a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:G.dallorto" title="User:G.dallorto">Giovanni Dall'Orto</a>.
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<span class="int-own-work" lang="en">Own work</span>