THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
1. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Aeneas’ escape with old-aged Anchises from Troy.
Image on the attic vase (lekythos) from Gela.
5th century BCE.
Museum of Archaeology.
2. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Antefix in the form of the head of Medusa Gorgon from Capua.
6th century BCE.
Campania.
3. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Campana relief.
Terracotta.
1st century CE.
4. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Figure of the bronze statue of Mars from Crustumerium.
6th century BCE.
5. CERAMICS.
Guests on the symposium.
From a painting on a vase.
6. CERAMICS. Greece.
Gymnastic exercises of ephebes.
Red-figure vase.
Clay.
7. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
Horses of Neptune.
Walter Cran (1845—1915).
1892.
8. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
Neptune on the waters.
Losenko Anton (1737—1773).
Early 1760s.
9. TOREUTICS.
Shield of Achilles.
Silver.
By Rundle and Bridge, after a design by Stothard, for George the IV (1820—1830).
10. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
The apparition of a snake during Aeneas’ sacrifice at the tomb of Anchises.
Engraving by Jean Baptiste Raphael Urbain Massard (1775—1843), 1798.
11. CERAMICS. Greece.
The victorious sacrifice.
12. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Etruria.
Tuchulcha, the demon of the underworld.
Etruscan funeral picture.
4th—3rd centuries BCE.
13. SCULPTURE. Greece.
“Athena and Marsyas”. Reconstruction.
14. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Erotes (short panel B).
Marble.
2nd - 3d cent. CE.
Alanya, Archaeological museum.
15. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Heracles.
Bronze.
H 52 cm.
2-nd cent. CE.
Alanya, Archaeological museum.
16. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Erotes (long panel A).
Marble.
2nd - 3d cent. CE.
Alanya, Archaeological museum.
17. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Heracles.
Bronze.
H 52 cm.
2-nd cent. CE.
Alanya, Archaeological museum.
18. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Erotes (long panel B).
Marble.
2nd - 3d cent. CE.
Alanya, Archaeological museum.
19. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Erotes.
Marble.
2nd - 3d cent. CE.
Alanya, Archaeological museum.
20. SCULPTURE. Asia.
Sarcophagus with Erotes (short panel A).
Marble.
2nd - 3d cent. CE.
Alanya, Archaeological museum.