THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Electra
1. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Relief with Orestes.
Marble. The time of Augustus (archaistic work).
Copenhagen, New Carlsberg Glyptotek.
2. 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.
3. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Erinys, Electra and Orestes (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.
4. 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.
5. 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.