THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Aegisthus
1. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with Orestes.
Marble. The time of Augustus (archaistic work).
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
2. 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.
3. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Orestes kills Aegisthus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. CERAMICS. Greece.
Orestes kills Aegisthus. (On the left Chrysothemis).
Red-figure pelike. Attic.
By the Berlin Painter.
Clay. Ca. 500 BCE.
Inv. No. IV 3725.
Vienna, Museum of Art History.
7. CERAMICS. Greece.
Orestes kills Aegisthus.
(On the left Chrysothemis).
Red-figure pelike. Detail. Attic.
By the Berlin Painter.
Clay. Ca. 500 BCE.
Inv. No. IV 3725.
Vienna, Museum of Art History.