THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Roman mythology | Mars
1. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Figure of the bronze statue of Mars from Crustumerium.
6th century BCE.
2. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Altar.
Marble. Augustan Age.
Arezzo, Civic Archaeological Museum.
3. TOREUTICS. Rome.
Sword of Tiberius. Detail of the scabbard: Tiberius and Augustus.
Ca. 15 CE.
Inv. No. 1866,0806.1.
London, British Museum.
4. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Mars and Venus.
Fresco from Pompeii (House of Punished Love, VII, 2, 23).
Third style. Ca. 20 BCE — 50s CE.
Inv. No. 9249.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
5. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Marriage of Mars-Alexander and Aphrodite-Roxana.
Fresco of the early 4th style from Pompeii (House of the Gold Bracelet, VI. 17. 42).
Inv. No. 41657.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
6. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Mars and Venus.
Fresco from the House of Citharoedus in Pompeii (House of Popidius Secundus, I, 4, 5—25, north wall of cubiculum 20).
1st century CE.
Inv. No. 112282.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
7. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Origin of Rome.
Fresco from Pompeii.
35—45 CE.
Inv. No. without number.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXXIII.
8. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with a myth of Selene and Endymion. The lid frieze.
Marble.
Early 3rd cent. CE.
CIL XIV 565.
Inv. No. 47.100.4b.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
9. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Slab with reliefs of Mars and Hercules
3rd century CE.
Northumberland (England), Alnwick Castle.
10. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ares, called the “Borghese Ares”.
Marble.
1st—2nd cent. CE (?).
Inv. Nos. Mr 65 / Ma 866.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
11. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ares, called the “Borghese Ares”.
Marble.
1st—2nd cent. CE (?).
Inv. Nos. Mr 65 / Ma 866.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
12. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“Borghese Ares”.
Marble.
1st—2nd cent. CE (?).
Inv. Nos. Mr 65 / Ma 866.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
13. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sculpture group of the imperial couple as Mars and Venus.
Marble.
120—140 CE (reworked in 170—175).
Inv. Nos. MR 316 / Ma 1009.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
14. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The Imperial couple presented as Mars and Venus.
Marble.
120—140 CE (reworked in 170—175).
Inv. Nos. MR 316 / Ma 1009.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
15. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The Imperial couple presented as Mars and Venus.
Marble.
120—140 CE (reworked in 170—175).
Inv. Nos. MR 316 / Ma 1009.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
16. SCULPTURE. Rome.
The Imperial couple presented as Mars and Venus.
Marble.
120—140 CE (reworked in 170—175).
Inv. Nos. MR 316 / Ma 1009.
Paris, Louvre Museum.
17. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Ares (the Ares Borghese type).
Luna marble. Severian replica from the after a bronze Greek statue by Alkamenes casted in 420 BCE.
Inv. No. S 795.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, II. 68.
18. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Ares (the Ares Borghese type).
Luna marble. Severian replica from the after a bronze Greek statue by Alkamenes casted in 420 BCE.
Inv. No. S 795.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, II. 68.
19. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Ares (the Ares Borghese type).
Luna marble. Severian replica from the after a bronze Greek statue by Alkamenes casted in 420 BCE.
Inv. No. S 795.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Centrale Montemartini Museum, II. 68.
20. SCULPTURE. Rome.
“Pyrrhus,” colossal statue of Mars.
Marble. Late 1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. S 58.
Rome, Capitoline Museums, Palazzo Nuovo, Atrium.