THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Sculpture | Greece
701. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Stele depicting the Greek historian Polybius.
Ca. 140 CE. Plaster cast.
Inv. No. MCR 164.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
702. SCULPTURE. Greece.
A girl playing the flute. Altar of Aphrodite, so-called “Ludovisi Throne”.
Marble. First third of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
703. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Birth of Aphrodite. Altar of Aphrodite, so-called “Ludovisi Throne”.
Marble. First third of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
704. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Woman offering sacrificial incense. Altar of Aphrodite, so-called “Ludovisi Throne”.
Marble. First third of the 5th century BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
705. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Birth of Aphrodite. Altar of Aphrodite (the so-called “Ludovisi Throne”) — the front relief.
Marble. 460—450 BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
706. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Birth of Aphrodite (close-up). Altar of Aphrodite (the so-called “Ludovisi Throne”) — the front relief.
Marble. 460—450 BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
707. SCULPTURE. Greece.
A girl playing the flute. Altar of Aphrodite (the so-called “Ludovisi Throne”) — the left-side relief.
Marble. 460—450 BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
708. SCULPTURE. Greece.
A girl playing the flute. Altar of Aphrodite (the so-called “Ludovisi Throne”) — the left-side relief.
Marble. 460—450 BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
709. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Veiled woman offering incense. Altar of Aphrodite (the so-called “Ludovisi Throne”) — the right-hand relief.
Marble. 460—450 BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
710. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Veiled woman offering incense (close-up). Altar of Aphrodite (the so-called “Ludovisi Throne”) — the right-hand relief.
Marble. 460—450 BCE.
Inv. No. 8570.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
711. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Ludovisi (Mercury the Oratore).
Engraving by Claude Randon (1674—1704), 1704.
Medium-grained (Pentelic) marble. Roman copy late 1st — early 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 8624.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
712. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Ludovisi (Mercury the Oratore).
Engraving by Claude Randon (1674—1704), 1704.
Medium-grained (Pentelic) marble. Roman copy late 1st — early 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 8624.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
713. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Ludovisi (Mercury the Oratore).
Medium-grained (Pentelic) marble.
Roman copy late 1st — early 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 8624.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
714. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Loghios.
Medium-grained (Pentelic) marble. Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a bronze Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE ascribed to Phidias.
H. 183 cm.
Inv. No. 8624.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
715. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Loghios.
Medium-grained (Pentelic) marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE ascribed to Phidias.
Inv. No. 8624.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
716. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Loghios.
Medium-grained (Pentelic) marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE ascribed to Phidias.
Inv. No. 8624.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
717. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Peplophoros.
Parian marble. 470—460 BCE.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
718. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of a discobolus.
Marble. Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a bronze Greek original by Myron of the mid-5th cent. BCE.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
719. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Diphilus.
Marble. 1st century CE.
Inv. No. 299.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
720. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Alexander the Great.
Bronze.
2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 661.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.