THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Roman mythology | Ulysses
1. SCULPTURE. Etruria.
Front relief of an etruscan cinerary urn “Menelaus and Meriones lifting Patroclus’ corpse on a cart”.
Alabaster.
Volterra, 2nd cent. BCE.
Florence, National Archaeological Museum.
2. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Ulysses resists the songs of the Sirens.
Fresco of the Third style from Pompeii.
50—75 CE.
Inv. No. 1867,0508.1354.
London, British Museum.
3. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Sacrifice of Iphigenia.
Fresco from Pompeii (House of the Tragic Poet).
Inv. No. 9112.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXXVIII.
4. PAINTING, GRAPHICS. Rome.
Sacrifice of Iphigenia.
Fresco from Pompeii (House of the Tragic Poet).
Inv. No. 9112.
Naples, National Archaeological Museum, Hall LXXVIII.
5. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Odysseus returning to Penelope.
Terracotta plaque.
Greek, Melian. About 450 BCE.
Inv. No. 30.11.9.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6. PAINTING, GRAPHICS.
Odysseus in the Underworld.
Johann Georg Hiltensperger (1806—1890).
Wall panel, 1845—1848.
No. LVII.
Saint Petersburg, State Hermitage Museum, The Gallery of the History of Ancient Painting, 57.
7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Fragment of a disc with relief depicting Ulysses and the Syrens.
Rosso antico marble.
1st cent. CE.
Inv. No. X n. 10.
Urbino, National Gallery of the Marche, Lapidarium.
8. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ulysses.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Pergamon original of the early 3rd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 496.
Venice, National Archaeological Museum.
9. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Ulysses (close-up).
Marble.
Roman copy of the 2nd century CE after a Pergamon original of the early 3rd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 496.
Venice, National Archaeological Museum.