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Statue of Eros stringing his bow Palazzo Nuovo - Musei Capitolini, Rome Sculpture | Museums

Sisyphus, watched by Persephone and Hades, undergoes his punishment in the Underworld.  Attic black-

Sisyphus hauls his rock in the Underworld, while Persephone watches.  Side A of an Attic black-figur

The battle of the Lapiths and Centaurs (Centauromachy). Attic black-figure terracotta kyathos (cup-s

Head of Asclepius.  Roman copy (second half of 2nd cent. CE) after a mid-4th cent. BCE Greek origina

Silver stater from the ancient Greek polis of Phaistos, Crete.  On the obverse, Heracles; on the rev

Heracles battles the Amazons.  Interior of a Laconian black-figure kylix, attributed to the Arcesila

thegetty:Three favorite objects selected by our new curator of antiquities.Head of a Bearded Man, 16

classical-beauty-of-the-past:Giovanni Maria Benzoni (1809–1873)Achilles about to kill Hector, Pallas

Neck-Amphora With a Man Playing a CitharaGreece, Attica, c. 510 BC 

Odysseus listens to the song of the Sirens.  Attic black-figure oenochoe, artist unknown; ca. 525-50

A Maenad (female devotee of Dionysus), brandishing her thyrsos (staff tipped with a pine cone) and a

Fragment of a pebble mosaic floor from the ancient Greek polis of Sicyon, depicting Centaurs and var

Lycian Apollo.  Reconstituted ivory statue of the 3rd cent. CE, thought to be a copy of the original

Silenus or a satyr, holding a kantharos (drinking-cup) and lyre.  Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix

The centaur Chiron teaches Achilles how to play the lyre.  Carved red jasper gemstone in a modern go

Now On View in our European Art gallery: Elisabeth Vigée Le BrunThis recently acquired portrait by E

Hellenistic bronze sculpture of Hermes.  Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Photo credit:

Terracotta applique in the form of a griffin.  From Taranto (ancient Taras/Tarentum), artist unknown

Bronze statuette of a Siren.  Unknown South Italian or Etruscan artist; ca. 500 BCE.  Now in the Met

A headless statue next to the Temple of IsisArchaeological Site of Delos, GreeceGreece | Ancient rui

Silver hemidrachm of the Arcadian polis of Tegea.  On the obverse, Zeus Lykaios, with an eagle; on t

Funerary stele for Eukoline, daughter of Antiphanes.  Artist unknown; ca. 380 BCE.  Now in the Keram

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