THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
401. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Kouros (funerary statue of a youth), so-called Apollino Milani.
Parian marble. Attic work.
520—510 BCE.
Inv. No. 99043.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
402. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Front relief of an etruscan cinerary urn “Pelops kills Myrtilus”.
Alabaster.
Volterra, ca. 150 BCE.
Inv. No. MA 93484.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
403. GLYPTICS. Rome.
The Medici Cameo. Emperor sacrificing to Hope.
Sardonyx, gilded metal.
1st—2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 14443.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
404. GLYPTICS. Rome.
Head of Augustus portrayed as Apollo.
Sardonyx, gold.
3rd-4th decade of the 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 14521.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum, Corridor of Maria Maddalena dei Medici.
405. SCULPTURE.
Death of Francesca Pitti Tornabuoni (tomb relief from Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome).
School of Andrea del Verocchio.
Marble, end of 15th cent.
Florence, National Museum of Bargello.
406. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of “silenus”.
Marble.
Florence, Palazzo Corsini.
407. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dionysos and satyr.
Marble. Roman copy of 120—140 CE after a Greek model.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
408. SCULPTURE.
The Laocoon Group.
Copy of the 16th cent. of the Vatican original of the 1st cent. BCE, with restoration of a missing parts.
By Baccio Bandinelli (1493—1560).
Carrara marble. 1520—1525.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
409. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a scene of the rape of Persephone (the front side).
Fine-grained marble (possibly Italic).
160—180 CE.
Inv. No. 86.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
410. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a scene of the rape of Persephone (the left short side panel).
Fine-grained marble (possibly Italic).
160—180 CE.
Inv. No. 86.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
411. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the myth of Leucippides’ abduction (front panel).
Roman work.
Pentelic marble.
First half of the 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 104.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
412. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ganymede and the eagle (close-up).
White marble. Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of the 3rd century BCE.
Restored by Benvenuto Cellini.
Inv. No. 128 (1914).
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
413. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophage with the myth of the Calydonian Hunt.
Greek medium-grained marble.
Roman work. 200—230 CE.
Inv. No. 135.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
414. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Farnese Hercules.
Italic marble.
Roman copy of 2nd cent. CE after a bronze model of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. 138.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
415. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The group of Niobe and her youngest daughter.
Pentelic marble.
Roman copy of a Greek original by Scopas of the second half of the 4th c. BCE.
Inv. No. 294.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
416. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The group of Niobe and her youngest daughter.
Pentelic marble.
Roman copy of a Greek original by Scopas of the second half of the 4th c. BCE.
Inv. No. 294.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
417. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of wounded Niobid, so-called “Narcisus”.
Pentelic marble.
Inv. No. 299.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
418. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Krater with sculptured bas-relief decorations known as the Medici Vase.
Neo-attic work.
Pentelic marble.
Second half of the 1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 307.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
419. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Krater with sculptured bas-relief decorations known as the Medici Vase.
Neo-attic work.
Pentelic marble.
Second half of the 1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 307.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.
420. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Krater with sculptured bas-relief decorations known as the Medici Vase (close-up).
Neo-attic work.
Pentelic marble.
Second half of the 1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 307.
Florence, Uffizi Gallery.