THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Sculpture | Greece | Decorative sculpture
1. ARCHITECTURE. Greece.
Column of the Temple of Athene Aphaia in Aegina.
Ca. 490 BCE.
Aegina.
2. ARCHITECTURE. Greece.
The first row of seats in the theatre of Dionysus in Athens.
4th cent. BCE.
Athens, Acropolis, Theatre of Dionysus.
3. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Throne of priest of Dionysus.
4th cent. BCE.
Athens, Acropolis, Theatre of Dionysus.
4. SCULPTURE. Greece.
The Chair of a priest.
4th cent. BCE.
Athens, Acropolis, Theatre of Dionysus.
5. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Corinthian capital, detail of the Monument of Lysicrates.
Marble.
4th century BCE.
Athens, Monument of Lysicrates.
6. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Corinthian capital of Zeus’s temple in Athens.
2nd cent. BCE — 2nd cent. CE.
Athens, Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion).
7. SCULPTURE. Greece.
The naiskos with the figure of enthroned Kybele. (On antae is represented Hermes Kadmilos and Hecate.)
Marble votive relief. Second half of the 4th century BCE.
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
8. SCULPTURE. Greece.
The naiskos with the figure of enthroned Kybele. (On antae is represented Hermes Kadmilos and Hecate.)
Marble votive relief. Second half of the 4th century BCE.
Berlin, State Museums, Pergamon Museum.
9. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Kore from portico of the Siphnian Treasury in Delphi.
Marble. 6th century BCE.
Delphi, Archaeological Museum.
10. ARCHITECTURE. Greece.
Votive capital with stepped sides from the Late Bronze Age Sanctuary.
Ca. 1200 BCE.
Cyprus.
Kouklia (Paliapaphos), Temple of Aphrodite.
11. ARCHITECTURE. Greece.
Ionic capital from Kouklia-Arkalou.
Calcarenite. C. 475—325 BCE.
Kouklia, Museum.
12. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Frieze of a temple at Phigalia.
London, British Museum.
13. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Pan and Goat.
Sculpture group.
Marble.
2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 27709.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Secret cabinet.
14. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Pan and Goat.
Sculpture group.
Marble.
2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 27709.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Secret cabinet.
15. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Cornice with a gutter (sima) and channelout in the form of a lion’s head.
Sandstone.
510 BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
16. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Helen and Andromache with the infant Astyanax mourning the death of Hector.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
17. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles and the Cercopes.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
18. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles bringing the Erymanthian Boar to King Eurystheus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
19. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles kills Alcyoneus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
20. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Laodamia keeps Clytemnestra hastening to the aid to Aegisthus and ready to kill the son Orestes.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.