THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Post-ancient Sculpture
21. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Bust of Antoninus Pius. Detail.
Marble. 16th century.
Inv. No. S 643.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Great Hall.
22. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Rear of columnar sarcophagus showing the Labours of Heracles and scenes of hunt.
Marble.
Upper register: modern work imitating the composition of the front panel (17th cent.).
Lower register: 160 CE.
Inv. No. 95.
Rome, Museum and Gallery of Villa Borghese, Room II.
23. SCULPTURE.
Death of Laocoön and his sons.
Marble. Ca. 50 BCE.
Rome, Vatican Museums.
24. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Gaius Julius Caesar.
Modern work from 17th or 18th century.
Inv. No. 2309.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Chiaramonti Museum, New Wing, 30i.
25. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Gaius Julius Caesar. Profile.
Modern work from 17th or 18th century.
Inv. No. 2309.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Chiaramonti Museum, New Wing, 30i.
26. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statuette of the “Good Shepherd”. Fragmentary relief from the front of a sarcophagus, reworked in full relief.
End of the 3rd — beginning of the 4th cent. CE.
Extensive restoration by Giuseppe Angelini, 1764.
Inv. No. 28590 (ex 103).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
27. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statuette of the “Good Shepherd”. Fragmentary relief from the front of a sarcophagus, reworked in full relief.
End of the 3rd — beginning of the 4th cent. CE.
Extensive restoration by Giuseppe Angelini, 1764.
Inv. No. 28590 (ex 103).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
28. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statuette of the “Good Shepherd”. Fragmentary relief from the front of a sarcophagus, reworked in full relief.
End of the 3rd — beginning of the 4th cent. CE.
Extensive restoration by Giuseppe Angelini, 1764.
Inv. No. 28590 (ex 103).
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius Christian Museum.
29. SCULPTURE.
Damoxenos.
Antonio Canova (1757—1822).
Marble. 1800.
Inv. No. 970.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 2.
30. SCULPTURE.
Damoxenos.
Antonio Canova (1757—1822).
Marble. 1800.
Inv. No. 970.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 2.
31. SCULPTURE.
Perseus with the head of Medusa.
Antonio Canova (1757—1822).
Marble. 1801.
Inv. No. 969.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 3.
32. SCULPTURE.
Perseus with the head of Medusa.
Antonio Canova (1757—1822).
Marble. 1801.
Inv. No. 969.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 3.
33. SCULPTURE.
Perseus with the head of Medusa. Detail.
Antonio Canova (1757—1822).
Marble. 1801.
Inv. No. 969.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 3.
34. SCULPTURE.
Perseus with the head of Medusa. Detail.
Antonio Canova (1757—1822).
Marble. 1801.
Inv. No. 969.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 3.
35. SCULPTURE.
Kreugas.
Antonio Canova (1757—1822).
Marble. 1800.
Inv. No. 968.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 4.
36. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Hermes.
Marble.
Roman work of the 2nd cent. CE after a Greek model of the 5th cent. BCE.
Extensive restoration and additions by Ferdinando Lisandroni, 1778—1779.
Inv. No. 967.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 6.
37. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Athena.
Marble. Roman work (193—235 CE?) after a Greek model of the 3rd cent. BCE.
Extensive restoration and additions by Ferdinando Lisandroni, 1779.
Inv. No. 966.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Octagonal Court, Cabinet of Canova (Perseus), 7.
38. SCULPTURE.
Lynx.
Scagliola. The work of the 18th century.
Inv. No. 447.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Animals, 64.
39. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Lynx.
White fine-grained marble. Extensive restoration.
Inv. No. 447.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Pius-Clementine Museum, Room of the Animals, 64.
40. SCULPTURE.
Figure of Mercury.
Flanders, the workshop of P. P. Rubens, about 1639.
Ivory, porphyry.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.