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Details #2: The Pleiades, 1885, by Elihu Vedder.

Minoan clay pyxis (cylindrical vessel with lid), depicting a man in a long robe (possibly a priest)

Mycenaean stirrup jar depicting an octopus. Artist unknown; Late Helladic IIIC (13th cent. BCE). Now

greek-museums:Books / The Archaeological Museum of Thebes:Encaustic on marble, portrait of a young m

Dionysus arrives at a gathering of his followers in a chariot drawn by griffins.  Apulian red-figure

cma-greek-roman-art:Heron Aryballos, c. 580 BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman ArtIn the 6

Mid-night (03:30) visual trial with details of Medusa, Peter Paul Rubens; Head of Mars, French Schoo

cma-greek-roman-art:Bell Krater, 300s BC, Cleveland Museum of Art: Greek and Roman ArtSize: Overall:

ganymedesrocks:A Red-figure Volute Krater with Warrior in a Naiskos - Group of Copenhagen 4223 - Sou

kallistoi:lionofchaeronea:The Amazonomachy.  Lower tier of an Attic red-figure lekythos, attr. to th

Rhodian “wild goat” style oinochoe Greek, Orientalizing Period, c. 625-600 B.C. terracottaMuseum of

The Muses by Jacopo Tintoretto (1578)

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

Athletes running. Side B of a black-figure Panathenaic amphora, attr. to the Kleophrades Painter; ca

Saint George the Dragon-Slayer, Georgios Klontzas, 16th century

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

fluentisonus:fluentisonus:today’s very specific genre of greek vase painting: helen hatching from he

Crete, Archaeological Museum of KissamosDionysiac Mosaic Floor[Found in] Antonios Skounakis plot (19

A lion.  Attic black-figure amphora, attr. to the Gorgon Painter; ca. 600-575 BCE. Now in the Louvre

Peter Paul Rubens The Abduction of Proserpina, c.1614-1615

Late Cycladic/Minoan jug with a painting of a bird.  Artist unknown; ca. 1600 BCE.  Now in the Natio

Terracotta aryballos in the form of an eagle’s head. Unknown Rhodian artist; late 7th or early 6th c

Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Coresus sacrificing himself to save Callirhoe, 1765

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