THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
2481. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dionysus.
Marble.
Roman work after a Greek models of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4165 / А. 372.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2482. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dionysus.
Marble.
Roman work after a Greek models of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4165 / А. 372.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2483. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Asclepius.
Marble.
Inv. No. ГР-4178.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2484. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Pan removing a splinter from a satyr’s foot.
Marble.
Roman work after a Greek statuary group of the 3rd cent. BCE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4181 / А. 388.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2485. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Pan removing a splinter from a satyr’s foot.
Marble.
Roman work after a Greek statuary group of the 3rd cent. BCE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4181 / А. 388.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2486. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Augustus from Cumae.
Marble.
1st century CE.
Inv. No. ГР-4191 (А 399).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2487. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Octavian August as Jupiter.
Marble.
First half of the 1st century CE.
Inv. No. ГР-4191 (А 399).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2488. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Octavian August as Jupiter.
Marble.
First half of the 1st century CE.
Inv. No. ГР-4191 (А 399).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2489. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Octavian August as Jupiter.
Marble.
First half of the 1st century CE.
Inv. No. ГР-4191 (А 399).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2490. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus, or a sarcophagus of the spouses).
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2491. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus).
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2492. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — front relief.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2493. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — the central scene of the front relief.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2494. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a matrimonial ceremony (so-called wedding or marriage sarcophagus) — the friese of the lid.
Marble.
3rd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4222 / A 433.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2495. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The Death of the Niobe’s Children.
Relief of a front panel of a sarcophagus.
Marble.
Roman work of the 1st century BCE (?) after a Greek original of the 430s BCE by Phidias.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4223 / А. 434.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2496. CERAMICS. Greece.
Heracles strangling the Nemean lion; Iolaos, Athena, Mercurius.
Black-figure amphora. Attic.
By the “Swing Painter”.
Clay. Ca. 530 BCE.
Inv. Nos. ГР-4412 / Б. 1485 (St. 50, Б. 180).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2497. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
Inv. Nos. Гр. 5600 / А. 498.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2498. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
Torsos of Heracles and the lion are fragments of the relief depicting the labours of Heracles from a Roman sarcophagus of the 2nd—3rd centuries (?).
Additions and restoration are Italian work of the 17th century (?).
Inv. No. Гр. 5600 (A. 498).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2499. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
2nd—3rd centuries (?).
Inv. No. Гр. 5600 (A. 498).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
2500. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles struggling with the Nemean lion.
Marble.
2nd—3rd centuries (?).
Inv. No. Гр. 5600 (A. 498).
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.