THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
1761. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Dancing satyr.
Pentelic marble.
Roman copy ca 220 CE after a Greek original by Lysippos of the 4th century BCE (?).
Inv. No. 225.
Rome, Museum and Gallery of Villa Borghese, Room VIII.
1762. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Apollo (the Kassel type).
Greek marble. Roman copy of the 1st—2nd century CE of a Greek original of the mid-5th century BCE by Phidias.
Inv. No. MB 92.
Rome, Museum of Barracco.
1763. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Apollo (the Lycaean Apollo type).
Roman copy of a Greek original attributed to Euphranor (second half of the 4th cent. BCE).
Parian marble.
Inv. No. MB 131.
Rome, Museum of Barracco.
1764. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Apollo (the Lycaean Apollo type).
Roman copy of a Greek original attributed to Euphranor (second half of the 4th cent. BCE).
Parian marble.
Inv. No. MB 131.
Rome, Museum of Barracco.
1765. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Aeneas escaping from Troy with his father Anchises and juvenile son Ascanius.
2nd century BCE.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
1766. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sacrifice to the goddess Vesta.
Plaster cast.
Rome, Museum of Roman Civilization.
1767. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Endymion. The front panel of a so-called “Braschi sarcophagus”.
Marble.
Ca. 250 CE.
Rome, Museum of Rome in Palazzo Braschi.
1768. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Aeneas sacrificing to the Penates.
Right part of the west facade of the Ara Pacis Augustae (upper panel).
Rome, Museum of the Altar of Augustan Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae).
1769. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Panel of Tellus (close-up).
Left part of the east facade of the Ara Pacis Augustae (upper panel).
Marble.
Rome, Museum of the Altar of Augustan Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae).
1770. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Panel of Tellus (close-up).
Left part of the east facade of the Ara Pacis Augustae (upper panel).
Marble.
Rome, Museum of the Altar of Augustan Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae).
1771. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Panel of Tellus. Detail.
Marble.
13—9 BCE.
Rome, Museum of the Altar of Augustan Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae).
1772. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Panel of Tellus, detail with the face of Tellus.
Marble. 13—9 BCE.
Rome, Museum of the Altar of Augustan Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae).
1773. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Panel of Tellus (close-up).
Left part of the east facade of the Ara Pacis Augustae (upper panel).
Marble.
Rome, Museum of the Altar of Augustan Peace (Ara Pacis Augustae).
1774. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Aeneas with his father on his back.
Terracotta from Veii. 4th century BCE.
Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia.
1775. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Artemis (?).
Decor of the Scasato Temple.
Clay. 3rd—2nd centuries BCE.
Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia.
1776. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Mater Matuta.
Tufa. 6th—2nd cent. BCE.
Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia.
1777. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Terracotta antefix, representing the head of Juno Lanuvian.
Early 5th century BCE.
Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia.
1778. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Statue of Apollo.
Terracotta. Late 6th century BCE.
Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia.
1779. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Statue of Apollo. Head.
Terracotta. Late 6th century BCE.
Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia.
1780. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Statue of Apollo. Detail.
Terracotta. Late 6th century BCE.
Rome, National Etruscan Museum of Villa Julia.