THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Roman mythology | Furies
1. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with Orestes.
Marble.
Early Augustan times.
Inv. No. 6689.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum.
2. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ludovisi Fury.
Luna marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE of a Hellenistic work, perhaps a wounded Amazon.
Inv. No. 8650.
Rome, Roman National Museum, Palazzo Altemps.
3. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Etruscan cinerary urn.
Polychrome terracotta.
First half of the 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 16267.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum.
4. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Mortal duel between Eteocles and Polynices.
Relief of the front of Etruscan cinerary urn.
Alabaster.
Late 3rd—early 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 19016.
Rome, Vatican Museums, Gregorian Etruscan Museum.
5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra.
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Rome. Marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. A 461.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum.
6. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
The duel between Eteocles and Polynices. (Variant: Death of Patroclus.)
Relief of the front of Etruscan cinerary urn.
Alabaster. 2nd century BCE.
Inv. No. 28136.
Verona, Museum-Lapidarium of Maffei.