THE GALLERY OF ANCIENT ART

Mythology in the Art | Greek mythology | Heracles
61. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Bust of a youth.
Marble. Roman copy of the 1st or 2nd cent. CE of a head of a Greek statue of the 4th cent. BCE.
Inv. No. 15.143.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
62. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Heracles.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 1st cent. CE after a Greek original of the second half of the 4th cent. BCE attributed to Lysippos.
Inv. No. 27.122.18.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
63. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Heracles.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 1st cent. CE after a Greek original of the second half of the 4th cent. BCE attributed to Lysippos.
Inv. No. 27.122.18.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
64. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Head of Heracles.
Marble.
Roman copy of the 1st cent. CE after a Greek original of the second half of the 4th cent. BCE attributed to Lysippos.
Inv. No. 27.122.18.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
65. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Artist painting a statue of Herakles.
Red-figured column-krater. Apulia.
Ca. 360—350 BCE.
Attributed to the Group of Boston 00.348.
Inv. No. 50.11.4.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
66. CERAMICS. Southern Italy.
Athena with deities.
Red-figured column-krater. Apulia.
Ca. 360—350 BCE.
Attributed to the Group of Boston 00.348.
Inv. No. 50.11.4.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art.
67. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Alexander the Great as young Herakles.
Marble. Greek.
Hellenistic, late 4th — 3rd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. L.2014.62.3.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (on loan).
68. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Alexander the Great as young Herakles.
Marble. Greek.
Hellenistic, late 4th — 3rd cent. BCE.
Inv. No. L.2014.62.3.
New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art (on loan).
69. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Slab with reliefs of Mars and Hercules
3rd century CE.
Northumberland (England), Alnwick Castle.
70. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Heracles, Athena, and Atlas.
Metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia.
Marble. 460s BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
71. SCULPTURE. Greece.
Head of Heracles.
Detail of metope of the Temple of Zeus at Olympia (Heracles, Athena, and Atlas).
Marble. 60s of the 5th century BCE.
Olympia, Archaeological Museum.
72. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Votive relief to Heracles dedicated by the haruspex C. Fulvius Salvis.
Limestone. 70—65 BCE.
Inv. No. 157.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
73. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Front panel of a sarcophagus with representation of Centauromachy.
Proconnesian marble. Ca. 150 CE.
Inv. No. SBAO 16651.
Ostia, Archaeological Museum.
74. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles and the Cercopes.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
75. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles bringing the Erymanthian Boar to King Eurystheus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
76. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Heracles kills Alcyoneus.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
77. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Struggle between Apollo and Heracles for the Delphian tripod.
Sandstone. Metope from the temple of Hera at the mouth of the river Sele.
Mid-6th century BCE.
Paestum, National Archaeological Museum.
78. SCULPTURE. Rome.
Heracles with a stag.
Bronze.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
79. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
Hercules fighting with the Cretan bull. A so-called “Small metope” of the temple X in Selinuntum.
Compact limestone of Menfi.
560—550 BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.
80. SCULPTURE. Magna Graecia.
A part of frieze from the Temple С in Selinuntum.
Compact limestone of Menfi.
540—510 BCE.
Palermo, Regional Archaeological Museum “Antonio Salinas”.