THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
2341. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Decorative vase “Dionysus and his companions” (a close-up of the frieze relief).
Marble. 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. A 111.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2342. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Decorative vase “Dionysus and his companions”. Detail: herm of Priapus.
Marble. 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. A 111.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2343. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Livia, the wife of the emperor Octavian August.
Marble.
Second quarter of the 1st century.
Inv. No. A 116.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2344. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Portrait of Livia, the wife of the emperor Octavian August.
Marble. Second quarter of the 1st century.
Inv. No. A 116.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2345. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Terpsichore.
Marble. Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 3rd—2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. A 156.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2346. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Terpsichore. Detail.
Marble. Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Greek original of the 3rd—2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. A 156.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2347. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Maenad.
Fragment of a vase.
Marble. Greco-roman work of the late 1st century BCE.
Inv. No. A 174.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2348. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Heracles.
Marble. 1st century BCE.
Height 56 cm.
Inv. No. A 176.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2349. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of a sarcophagus with a dionysiac procession.
Marble. 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. A. 182.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2350. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with strigillated ornamentation and central gates (the front panel).
Marble.
Early 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. A 183.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2351. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with strigillated ornamentation and central gates (the front panel — close up).
Marble.
Early 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. A 183.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2352. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Nine Muses, Athena and Apollo.
Relief of the front wall of a sarcophagus.
White fine-grained marble. 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. A 185.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2353. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Nine Muses, Athena and Apollo. Detail: Polyhymnia, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Erato.
Relief of the front wall of a sarcophagus.
Marble. 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. A 185.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2354. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Nine Muses, Athena and Apollo. Detail: Calliope, Terpsichore, Urania, Clio.
Relief of the front wall of a sarcophagus.
Marble. 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. A 185.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2355. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ganymede feeding the eagle.
Marble. Roman copy of late 1st cent. BCE after a Greek original.
58 × 44 cm.
Inv. No. A. 195.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2356. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ganymede feeding the eagle.
Marble. Roman copy of late 1st cent. BCE after a Greek original.
58 × 44 cm.
Inv. No. A. 195.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2357. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ganymede feeding the eagle. Detail.
Marble. Roman copy of late 1st cent. BCE after a Greek original.
58 × 44 cm.
Inv. No. A. 195.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2358. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Resting Satyr.
Marble. Roman, after Praxiteles’ model of the first half of 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. A 198.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2359. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Resting Satyr. Detail.
Marble. Roman, after Praxiteles’ model of the first half of 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. A 198.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2360. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Statuette of Heracles seated.
Carrara marble. Hellenistic period.
Height 53 cm.
Inv. No. A. 219.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.