THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Medusa
1. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Antefix in the form of the head of Medusa Gorgon from Capua.
6th century BCE.
Campania.
2. MOSAIC. Greece.
Mosaic floor with Medusa’s head.
Piraeus.
2nd cent. CE.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
3. MOSAIC. Greece.
Mosaic floor with Medusa’s head.
Piraeus.
2nd cent. CE.
Athens, National Archaeological Museum.
4. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with a trireme.
Fine-grained marble with grey veins.
Last decades of the 1st cent. BCE.
Baiae, Archaeological Museum of Phlegraean Fields.
5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Garland sarcophagus.
Dokimeion marble.
150—180 CE.
Inv. No. 23.29.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
6. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Garland sarcophagus: short side with the head of Medusa.
Dokimeion marble.
150—180 CE.
Inv. No. 23.29.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Garland sarcophagus.
Dokimeion marble.
150—180 CE.
Inv. No. 23.29.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
8. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Garland sarcophagus.
Dokimeion marble.
150—180 CE.
Inv. No. 23.29.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
9. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Garland sarcophagus.
Dokimeion marble.
150—180 CE.
Inv. No. 23.29.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
10. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Garland sarcophagus.
Dokimeion marble.
150—180 CE.
Inv. No. 23.29.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
11. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Garland sarcophagus.
Dokimeion marble.
150—180 CE.
Inv. No. 23.29.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
12. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Garland sarcophagus.
Dokimeion marble.
150—180 CE.
Inv. No. 23.29.
Baltimore, Walters Art Museum.
13. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A torso in armour.
Marble. 1st century CE.
Bergamo, Civic Archaeological Museum.
14. SCULPTURE. Rome.
A torso in armour.
Marble. 1st century CE.
Bergamo, Civic Archaeological Museum.
15. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Perseus with the head of Medusa.
Fresco in room 30 (diaeta) adjoining the large portico.
Mid-1st century CE.
Castellammare di Stabia, Villa San Marco, room 30.
16. CERAMICS. Greece.
Perseus fleeing away with the head of Medusa.
Red-figure hydria. Attic.
Attributed to Pan Painter (Beazley).
Clay.
Ca. 460 BCE.
Inv. No. 1873,0820.352.
London, British Museum.
17. CERAMICS. Greece.
Symposiasts (banqueters).
Interior of the black-figure eye-cup (type A). Attic.
Attributed to Andokides as potter and painted in the manner of the Lysippides Painter.
Clay. Ca. 520 BCE.
Inv. No. 87.AE.22.
Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu.
18. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Medusa, so-called “Rondanini Medusa”.
Marble. Roman copy after a Greek original by Phidias ca. 440 BCE, which was set on the shield of Athena Parthenos.
Inv. No. 252.
Munich, Glyptotek.
19. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of emperor Titus.
Marble.
79—81 CE.
Inv. No. 6059.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
20. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Statue of emperor Titus.
Marble.
79—81 CE.
Inv. No. 6059.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.