THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Siren
1. APPLIED ART. Greece.
Caryatid mirror with Aphrodite.
Bronze.
Ca. 450 BCE.
Inv. No. 54.769.
Baltimore, Walters Art 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.
Wall fragment with Siren, sea monsters and niche on black ground.
50—79 CE.
Inv. No. 72.AG.78.6.
Los Angeles, John Paul Getty Museum, Getty Villa in Malibu.
4. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens.
Marble. Roman. Third quarter of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 10.104.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
5. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens (close-up).
Marble. Roman. Third quarter of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 10.104.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
6. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens (close-up).
Marble. Roman. Third quarter of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 10.104.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
7. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens (close-up).
Marble. Roman. Third quarter of the 3rd cent. CE.
Inv. No. 10.104.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
8. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Grave stele (grave marker) of a woman in the form of edicula.
Marble.
Attic work, 375—350 BCE.
Inv. No. 65.11.11.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
9. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with representation of the dead married couple and the Muses in arches (front panel).
Marble.
Rome. Ca. 250 CE.
Inv. No. C 22 est.
Pisa, Camposanto Monumentale.
10. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Sarcophagus with representation of the dead married couple and the Muses in arches (close-up of the front relief).
Marble.
Rome. Ca. 250 CE.
Inv. No. C 22 est.
Pisa, Camposanto Monumentale.
11. 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.