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1. APPLIED ART. Etruria.
Orestes killing his mother Clytemnestra.
Etruscan bronze mirror.
4th—3rd cent. BCE.
Christie’s Fine Art Auction House, London. |
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2. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater. Side B: Telephus with infant Orestes, Agamemnon and Clytemnestra.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art. |
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3. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
The Medea krater.
Red-figured calyx-krater. Lucania.
Ca. 400 BCE.
Attributed to the Policoro Painter.
Inv. No. 1991.1.
Cleveland, Museum of Art. |
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4. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with Orestes.
Marble. The time of Augustus (archaistic work).
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek. |
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5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Fragment of a sarcophagus with myth of Orestes.
Marble.
3d cent. CE.
Inv. No. 2005/039.
Florence, Museum of the Works of the Cathedral. |
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6. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
So-called “Vase of Patroclus”, side B.
Red-figured volute-krater. Apulia.
Darius Painter.
Clay. 340—320 BCE.
Inv. No. 81954 (?).
Naples, National Archaeological Museum. |
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7. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
So-called “Vase of Patroclus”, side A.
Red-figured volute-krater. Apulia.
Darius Painter.
Clay. 340—320 BCE.
Inv. No. 81954 (?).
Naples, National Archaeological Museum. |
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8. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Laodamia keeps Clytemnestra hastening to the aid to Aegisthus and ready to kill the son Orestes.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum. |
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9. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus of the Muses (front panel).
Marble.
Rome. First half of the 2nd cent. CE.
Inv. Nos. MR 880 / Ma 475.
Paris, Louvre Museum. |
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10. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus of the Muses (known as the sarcophagus of pope Anacletus II) with a lid from a different sarcophagus .
Marble. The 3rd — beginning of the 4th cent. CE.
Rome, Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls, cloister. |
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11. 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. |
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12. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Orestes slaying Aegisthus (a close-up of relief “Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra”).
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Rome. Marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. A 461.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum. |
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13. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Orestes slaying Clytemnestra (a close-up of relief “Orestes slaying Aegisthus and Clytemnestra”).
Frontal relief of a sarcophagus.
Rome. Marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. A 461.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum. |
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14. CERAMICS. Greece.
Talthybius restraining Clytemnestra when she’s trying to help Aegisthus.
Red-figure pelike. Detail. Attic.
By the Berlin Painter.
Clay. Ca. 500 BCE.
Inv. No. IV 3725.
Vienna, Museum of Art History. |
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