THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
281. APPLIED ART. Etruria.
Orestes killing his mother Clytemnestra.
Etruscan bronze mirror.
4th—3rd cent. BCE.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, London.
282. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Athene, Apollo, Hermes, Artemis (upper register). Military gathering (lower register).
Red-figured volute-krater. Apulia.
Attributed to the Baltimor Painter.
Clay.
Ca. 330—320 BCE.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, New York.
283. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with the Dioscuri
Marble.
Hadrianic period. Early 2nd century.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, New York.
284. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with the Dioscuri
Marble.
Hadrianic period. Early 2nd century.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, New York.
285. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with the Dioscuri
Marble.
Hadrianic period. Early 2nd century.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, New York.
286. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater. Side A: Medea departing in a chariot after killing her children.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art.
287. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater. Detail of the side A: the nurse and the paidagogos mourn the death of the children of Jason and Medea.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art.
288. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater. Side A: Medea departing in a chariot after killing her children.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art.
289. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater. Detail of the side A: Erinys and Jason.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art.
290. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art.
291. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater. Side B: Telephus with infant Orestes, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art.
292. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater. Detail of the side B: Telephus with infant Orestes.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art.
293. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art.
294. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with Orestes.
Marble. The time of Augustus (archaistic work).
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
295. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“The Resting Satyr”.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Praxiteles’ model ca. 340-330 BCE.
Inv. No. 474.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
296. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“The Resting Satyr”.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Praxiteles’ model ca. 340-330 BCE.
Inv. No. 474.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
297. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“The Resting Satyr”.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Praxiteles’ model ca. 340-330 BCE.
Inv. No. 474.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
298. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“The Resting Satyr”. Detail.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Praxiteles’ model ca. 340-330 BCE.
Inv. No. 474.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
299. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“The Resting Satyr”. Detail.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Praxiteles’ model ca. 340-330 BCE.
Inv. No. 474.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
300. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A Dioscuros, Son of Zeus.
Marble. Roman. 2nd century CE.
Inv. No. 505.
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.