THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
741. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ganymede and the Eagle.
White marble.
Roman copy of the second half of the 2nd cent. CE of a late Hellenistic model of Greek figurative repertoir of the 4th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 6355.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
742. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Atlas, holding the Earth.
Marble. Newly-Roman period.
Inv. No. 6374.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
743. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Atlas holding the celestial sphere (Farnese Atlas).
Marble. Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of the 2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 6374.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
744. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Atlas holding the celestial sphere (Farnese Atlas).
Marble. Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of the 2nd cent. BCE.
H. 191 cm. Diameter of the sphere 66 cm.
Inv. No. 6374.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
745. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Atlas holding the celestial sphere (Farnese Atlas).
Marble. Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of the 2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 6374.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
746. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Atlas, holding the Earth. Detail.
Marble. Newly-Roman period.
Inv. No. 6374.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
747. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Atlas holding the celestial sphere (Farnese Atlas): a close-up.
Marble. Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of the 2nd cent. BCE.
H. 191 cm. Diameter of the sphere 66 cm.
Inv. No. 6374.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
748. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of Atlas holding the celestial sphere (Farnese Atlas): a close-up.
Marble. Roman copy of a Greek sculpture of the 2nd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 6374.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
749. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dying Amazon on horseback.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 6405.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
750. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Amazon on horseback.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 6405.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
751. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Amazon on horseback.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 6405.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
752. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“Flora Farnese”.
Marble. Remaking of the imperial age from the Hellenistic original.
Inv. No. 6409.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
753. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“Flora Farnese”.
Marble. Remaking of the imperial age from the Hellenistic original.
Inv. No. 6409.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
754. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“Flora Farnese”. Detail.
Marble. Remaking of the imperial age from the Hellenistic original.
Inv. No. 6409.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
755. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“Flora Farnese”. Detail.
Marble. Remaking of the imperial age from the Hellenistic original.
Inv. No. 6409.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
756. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A lenos-shaped sarcophagus known as “Sarcophagus of the Brothers” or a “Senatorial sarcophagus” (close-up).
Carrara marble. 240—260 CE.
Inv. No. 6603.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
757. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Heracles starting the rites of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
Neo-Attic relief.
Luna varble.
Late 1st cent. BCE — early 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6679.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
758. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Drunken Dionysos between Satyr and Maenads.
Relief.
Marble. First half of the 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6684.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
759. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Relief depicting a theatre scene.
Neo-Attic relief.
Luna marble. Mid-1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6687.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
760. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Alcibiades and hetaerae (Apollo and three nymphs).
Marble.
First half of the 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6688.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.