THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Roman mythology | Amor
41. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Four Cupids hanging garlands.
Fresco fragment of the Fourth style.
50—79 CE.
Inv. No. 72.AG.82.
Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu.
42. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Aphrodite and Adonis. Aphrodite comes to wounded Adonis (detail).
Parian marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6734.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
43. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Aphrodite and Adonis. Death of Adonis (detail).
Parian marble. Late 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6734.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
44. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion.
Parian marble. Mid-2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6758.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
45. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion (detail).
Parian marble. Mid-2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6758.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
46. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion (detail).
Parian marble. Mid-2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 6758.
Mantua, Ducal Palace.
47. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Eroses and garlands.
White marble.
2nd—3rd cent. CE. Asia Minor.
Inv. No. 204.
Milan, Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
48. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Eroses and garlands.
White marble.
2nd—3rd cent. CE. Asia Minor.
Inv. No. 204.
Milan, Poldi Pezzoli Museum.
49. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sleeping Ariadne on Naxos island. A close-up of side 1 of sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes.
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
50. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Central part of side 1 of sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes.
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
51. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Central part of side 2 of sarcophagus with Dionysiaс scenes.
Marble. Ca. 210 CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 231.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
52. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with flying Victories holding a portrait medallion of the deceased.
White-yellowish marble. Second quarter of the 3rd century CE.
Inv. No. II 1a 761.
Moscow, Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
53. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dionysus and Eros.
Marble. Roman copy of a Greek original.
2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6307.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
54. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dionysus and Eros (close-up).
Marble. Roman copy of a Greek original.
2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6307.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
55. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Eros, the Centocelle type.
Marble.
Roman copy of the second half of the 2nd cent. CE of a Greek original of the 4th cent. BCE attributed to Praxiteles.
Inv. No. 6353.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
56. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Eros, Centocelle type (close-up).
Marble.
Roman copy of the second half of the 2nd cent. CE of a Greek original of the 4th cent. BCE attributed to Praxiteles
Inv. No. 6353.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
57. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Prometheus and the creation of man.
Marble.
4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6705.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
58. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Prometheus and the creation of man (close-up).
Marble.
4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6705.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
59. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Prometheus and the creation of man (close-up).
Marble.
4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6705.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
60. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with cupids killing bulls (cupids-tauroctones).
From the temple of Venus Genetrix in the Forum of Caesar.
Marble. Early 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6718.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.