THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Personifications | Rivers
1. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
The abduction of Hilas by the nymphs.
Fresco from Herculaneum.
1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 8864.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
2. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Io in Canopus.
Fresco from Pompeii (Duke of Aumale house, VI. 9. 1).
Third style. Late 1st cent. BCE — first half of the 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 9555.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
3. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Origin of Rome.
Fresco from Pompeii.
35—45 CE.
Inv. No. without number.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXXIII.
4. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
River god and two nymphs.
Fresco fragment of the Fourth style from Pompeii (VI. 1. 7).
60—79 CE.
Inv. Nos. CC 70 / P 2.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
5. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Wall painting of the triclinium C of the Villa Moregine.
The Fourth style.
64 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, Great Gymnasium.
6. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Personification of the Sarnus river.
The Fourth style.
64 CE.
Pompeii, Archaeological Park, Great Gymnasium.
7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Marforio, colossal statue of river-god, restored as Oceanus.
Marble.
2nd century.
Inv. No. S 1.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Courtyard.
8. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Personification of the Tiber.
Marble.
2nd century.
Tivoli, Museum of the Canopus.