THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
761. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with Orestes.
Marble.
Early Augustan times.
Inv. No. 6689.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
762. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Prometheus and the creation of man.
Marble.
4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6705.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
763. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Prometheus and the creation of man (close-up).
Marble.
4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6705.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
764. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with scenes of the myth of Prometheus and the creation of man (close-up).
Marble.
4th cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6705.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
765. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a myth of Pelops and Oenomaus.
Marble.
Late 3rd century CE.
Inv. No. 6711.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
766. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Ikarios plays host to Dionysos.
Neo-Attic relief.
Marble. Late 1st cent. BCE — early 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6713.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
767. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with cupids killing bulls (cupids-tauroctones).
From the temple of Venus Genetrix in the Forum of Caesar.
Marble. Early 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6718.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
768. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Orpheus, Eurydice and Hermes.
Relief. Roman copy of the augustan age from a Greek original of the second half of 5th cent. BCE by Alcamenes, disciple of Phidias.
Marble.
Inv. No. 6727.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
769. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Sitting Dionysos.
Neo-Attic relief.
Marble. 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6728.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
770. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Sitting Dionysos (close-up).
Neo-Attic relief.
Marble. 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 6728.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
771. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Flora (Proserpine). Fresco from Stabiae (cubiculum w26 of the Villa of Ariadne).
Inv. No. 8834.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
772. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
The male deity of light sitting on chariot, in radiate crown and with sceptre.
Fresco from Stabiae (Villa of Ariadne, W28).
Inv. No. 8839.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
773. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Victoria and a victorious commander with the trophy.
Fresco of the Fourth style from Pompeii.
45—79 CE.
Inv. No. 8843.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
774. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Victoria and a victorious commander with the trophy.
Fresco of the Fourth style from Pompeii.
45—79 CE.
Inv. No. 8843.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
775. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
The abduction of Hilas by the nymphs.
Fresco from Herculaneum.
1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 8864.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
776. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Medallion depicting the bust of river deity.
Fresco from Pompeii.
Inv. No. 8877.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
777. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Atalanta and Eros.
Fresco from Pompeii (House of Meleager, VI. 9. 2).
1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 8897.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
778. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Medea. Fresco from Stabiae (cubiculum of the Villa of Ariadne).
Inv. No. 8978.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
779. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Polyphemus receiving a letter from Galatea.
Fresco of the 4th style.
45—79 CE.
Inv. No. 8984.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
780. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Medallion depicting Paris and Eros.
Fresco from Pompeii.
Inv. No. 8988.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.