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People in this city frequently attach satirical poems to sculptures called this city’s “talking statues.”William Wetmore Story sculpted an oft-replicated Angel of Grief for his dead wife’s grave in a cemetery in this city. A sculpture of Anchises [An-KY-sees] being carried by a young Aeneas resides in a gallery in the city. A marble statue of a reclining partially clothed woman holding an apple against (15[1])her thigh is located in this city. This city is home to Antonio (*) Canova’s Venus Victrix. Gold stucco rays surround (-5[1])a spear-wielding angel and the title nun in a sculpture in this city’s (-5[1])Cornaro Chapel. The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa was sculpted in this city by Gian Lorenzo Bernini. The piazza of a museum in this city features a bronze equestrian statue (-5[1])of Marcus Aurelius. For 10 points, busts of emperors are displayed in what city’s Capitoline Museums? ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Rome
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