THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Sculpture | Greece | Reliefs
141. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Heracles.
Detail of metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Heracles, Athena, and Atlas).
Marble. 60s of the 5th century BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
142. 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.
143. 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.
144. 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.
145. 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.
146. 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.
147. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Orestes kills Aegisthus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
148. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Punishment of Sisyphus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
149. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
So-called Nereids.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
150. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
So-called Nereids.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
151. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Struggle between Apollo and Heracles for the Delphian tripod.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
152. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
The attacking warrior.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
153. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
The suicide of Ajax.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
154. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
So-called Nereids.
Limestone. Metope from the temple of Hera in Paestum.
Late 6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
155. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
So-called Nereids.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
156. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Fragment of the slab VI (Poseidon, Apollo and Artemis at the meeting of gods).
Bas-relief from the east frieze of Parthenon.
Marble.
440 BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
157. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Heracles.
Metope of the temple “E” in Selinuntum (Sicily).
Tuff. 470s—460s BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
158. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Zeus and Hera.
Metope of the temple of Hera in Selinuntum (Sicily).
480—460 BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
159. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Diana and Actaeon. Metope of the temple “E” in Selinuntum (Sicily).
Tuff.
470s—460s BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
160. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
The punishment of Actaeon. Metopes of the temple “E” in Selinuntum (Sicily).
First half of the 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 3921.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.