THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art
1941. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Statue of Aphrodite signed by Menophantos.
Greek fine-graine marble. Greek copy of the 1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 75674.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1942. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Statue of Aphrodite signed by Menophantos (close-up).
Greek fine-graine marble. Greek copy of the 1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 75674.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1943. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Statue of Aphrodite signed by Menophantos. Detail: the signature.
Greek fine-graine marble. Greek copy of the 1st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 75674.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1944. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Apollo (so-called Apollo Chigi).
Large-graine Greek marble.
Classicising Roman reworking inspired by a Greek model of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. 75675.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1945. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Apollo (so-called Apollo Chigi).
Large-graine Greek marble.
Classicising Roman reworking inspired by a Greek model of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. 75675.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1946. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Apollo (so-called Apollo Chigi).
Large-graine Greek marble.
Classicising Roman reworking inspired by a Greek model of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. 75675.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1947. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Apollo (so-called Apollo Chigi).
Large-graine Greek marble.
Classicising Roman reworking inspired by a Greek model of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. 75675.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1948. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Apollo (so-called Apollo Chigi). A close-up.
Large-graine Greek marble.
Classicising Roman reworking inspired by a Greek model of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. 75675.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1949. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Apollo (so-called Apollo Chigi). A close-up.
Large-graine Greek marble.
Classicising Roman reworking inspired by a Greek model of the 4th century BCE.
Inv. No. 75675.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1950. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of a young girl dressed as Artemis.
Greek marble.
1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 108518.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1951. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of a young girl dressed as Artemis.
Greek marble.
1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. 108518.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1952. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Loghios (the Ludovisi type).
Coarse-grained marble. Roman copy of the mid-1st cent. CE after a bronze Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 124479.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1953. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Loghios (the Ludovisi type).
Coarse-grained marble. Roman copy of the mid-1st cent. CE after a bronze Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 124479.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1954. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Hermes Loghios (the Ludovisi type).
Coarse-grained marble.
Roman copy of the mid-1st cent. CE after a bronze Greek original of the 5th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 124479.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1955. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Amazon on horseback and a barbar.
Pentelic marble. Roman copy of 2nd cent. CE after a Greek original of the 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 124678.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1956. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief depicting Antinous represented as god of the woods Silvanus.
Marble.
130—138 CE.
Inv. No. 168186.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1957. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of the sarcophagus of a child depicting hunting scenes (known as “Sarcophagus with a mummy from Grottarossa”).
Marble.
Second half of the 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 168186.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1958. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus of a child depicting hunting scenes (known as “Sarcophagus with a mummy from Grottarossa”): right short side with a scene “Ascanius attacking a boar”.
Marble.
Second half of the 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 168186.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1959. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Base with Maenads.
White penthelic marble.
Production of a Greek workshop of the 2-nd half of 1-st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 2001482.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.
1960. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Base with Maenads.
White penthelic marble.
Production of a Greek workshop of the 2-nd half of 1-st cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 2001482.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme.