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Female Votary. Cyprus, 5th-4th cent.BC. Limestone.
The young woman wears a wreath of laurel and flowers and many jewels. In her right arm she holds a small calf which she presents to a divinity, probably Aphrodite. Placed as a votive in a sanctuary.

Winged Female Demon. Sicily. 6th cent.BC. Limestone.
The kneeling position indicated fast movement in early Greek art. Such relief slabs, called metopes, were set on the outside of a temple above the columns.

Offering to a Hero or a God. Greece. C.300 BC. Marble.
A pious family offers a ram to two deities dining at a table in a temple. The female deity sprinkles incense into a small brazier on the table. In the background is the head of a horse, a symbol of heroism.

Dedication to Zeus Epiteleios Philios. Athens, c.350 BC. Marble.
Three named dedicants are on the left, bringing gifts to a divine couple. The relief honours Zeus, his mother, Filia, and his wife, Agathe Tyche, Good Fortune.

A Gift for the God of Healing. Macedonia, c.420 BC. Marble.
By throwing stones the youths make the healing god, Asklepios, appear in the guise of a snake. A patient hails him from a stretcher. The relief was probably a gift in an Asklepios sanctuary.

Head of a Youth (kouros). Athens. c.520 BC. Marble.
Belonging originally to a tomb statue of a nude, standing youth. Its "cauliflower" ears may refer to the athletic prowess of the deceased.

Relief Dedicated to Several deities. Piraeus, c.420 BC. Marble.
The absence of attributes makes identification of the deities difficult. The donor of the relief is seen in small size on the left. The style and quality is close to the sculptures of the Parthenon in Athens.

Offering to Staphylos, the Grape God. Thrace, 4th cent.BC. Marble.
The god stands in a small temple with a row of cover tiles along the roof. His staff was once painted in. At his side is Athena, representing the donor, an Athenian.

Fragment of a Votive Relief. Macedonia. 3rd cent.BC. Marble.
The young man is a temple steward holding a knife in order to kill a sacrificial animal. Above a snake is winding around a tree. The setting is a sanctuary for Asklepios who may have been represented to the left.

Fragment of a Relief. Unknown provenance. Roman copy of an original from c.460 BC. Marble.
The fragment shows a hand holding up a theatre mask of Silenus. Such masks were used in Greek comedy and satyr plays. The fragment may have belonged to a grave marker for an actor.

Relief from a Tomb. Athens, c.320 BC. Marble.
The relief decorated an interior wall of a three-sided monument framing the figure of the deceased. The rough features and the tunic leaving one shoulder bare convey the low social status of a stable boy.

Grave Relief for a Soldier. Athens, c.330 BC. Marble.
The soldier is in combat, raising his sword to kill a prostrate enemy. Content, quality and format suggest that this may have been part of an Athenian state memorial.

Grave Relief for Philostrate and Hippon. Athens, c.350 BC. Marble.
Hippon was buried after his mother Philostrate. Since he died unmarried, a wedding vase was cut in the pediment and his father's comforting hand added.

Relief with Amazonomachy. Athens, 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
An Amazon wearing a short tunic and helmet is in combat with a naked Greek ina rocky landscape. The Amazons were female warriors who in the myths were the archetypical enemies of the Greeks.

Head of an Egyptian Queen or Goddess. Alexandria? 2nd cent.BC. Marble.
The young woman wore a diadem, as used by Egyptian queens and Aphrodite. The features are soft. The back of head was attached in stucco. Both traits are typical of sculpture from Greek Alexandria.

Statue of a Young Man. Sicily, c.470-460 BC. Bronze.
The figure originally held a libation bowl in his right hand. Nipples, lips, eyebrows, and navel are inlaid in another alloy. Perhaps brought to Rome as spoils of war and reused in a sanctuary in Rome.

Part of a Votive relief. Provenience unknown. 2nd cent.BC. Marble.
A group of women carrying torches and wearing laurel wreaths. To the left is the arm of a seated figure with a large torch, probably the goddess of the Underworld, Demeter.

Kybele. Italy. 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The hairstyle is that worn in the 5th century BC. The head is thought to imitate a statue of the mother of the gods which stood in a temple on the Agora in Athens.

Young Woman. Syracuse, Sicily. Late 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The strictly frontal, symmetrical head belongs to a type known in many Roman copies: a standing woman dressed in a peplos which copied a bronze statue of Artemis from c.460 BC that stood in Athens.

Wounded Amazon. Rome, c.150 AD. Marble.

Head of a Wounded Amazon. Rome, c.150 AD. Marble.
The head with the elaborate coiffure once surmounted the statue of a wounded Amazon. Roman copies are known of three different Classical statues of Amazons.

Head of "The Discus Bearer". Findspot unknown. C.50 AD. Marble from Thasos.
The short hair is characteristic of statues of athletes by Polykleitos. The very fine, detailed rendering of the individual locks and the sharply defined rims of the eyes reproduce the character of the bronze original.

"The Discus Bearer". Findspot unknown. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The man is leaning against a support in the form of a sea monster and holding a pomegranate in his hand. This is a copy of a bronze statue made by Polykleitos around 460-450 BC, representing an athlete. Other Roman copies show that he had a discus in his hand.

Diomedes. Frascati, the Tusculum of Antiquity. 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The head comes from a statue of the hero Diomedes of Argos. He stood with a sword in his right hand while his left held the Palladion, the ancient image of Athena he had stolen from Troy. He is turning his head towards Odysseus who wants to take the statue from him.

Meleager. Monte Cassino, 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The hero stands with his dog at his side, holding a spear with which, according to the myth, he had killed the Calydonian boar. The many extant copies show that the statue reproduces a famous Greek work from 340 BC.

Meleager. Rome. 1st-2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The head comes from the statue of the same type as the torso beside it. The hero was shown gazing into his threatening future in which, according to the myth, his mother would have him killed because he had slain her brothers.

Aphrodite "Cnidia". Rome? 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The head represents one of the most famous statues of Antiquity, the nude Aphrodite by the sculptor Praxiteles made in c.350 BC and set up in Cnidos in Asia Minor.

Aphrodite "pudica'. Rome? 1st-2nd cent.AD. Marble.
Aphrodite pudica, the chaste, was represented as just having bathed, with her cloak placed over a water-jar at her side. The right hand lay over her breast, and the left shielded the pubic region.

Aphrodite, called "Hera Borghesa". Monte Calvo. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Kybele. Campania, c.60 BC. Marble.
The Oriental mother-goddess was worshipped in Italy from 204 BC. She is represented seated on a throne flanked by lions. On her head she is wearing a crown depicting a city wall with towers and gates.

Dionysos. Rome. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
Dionysos can be identified by the panther sitting beside him.

Head of "The Resting Satyr". Findspot unknown. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The sweetish expression and the short hair which wreathes the face show that this is a copy of the very popular Resting Satyr. The deeply-drilled grooves in the hair indicate that the head was made in the 2nd cent.AD.

Dionysos. Rome. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The young god has small cow-horns on his forehead and is wearing a wreath of ivy. Such statues were found in Roman gardens.

Dionysos. Rome. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
This is an old bearded Dionysos with fine curls and a head-band with vine leaves and grapes around it. The head belonged to a herm of an old-fashioned representation of the wine god.

Dionysos, God of Wine, with Pan and a Panther. From a Roman villa near Naples. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Antinous as Dionysos

Dionysos.

Heracles.

Heracles. Split in Croatia. 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The short, tousled hair and the narrow eyes are characteristic of the Late Classical style and recall the works of Skopas. The head has the appearance of Heracles, but may also represent an athlete.

Heracles. From the environs of Rome. Early 1st cent.AD. Marble.
Heracles holds the golden Apples of the Hesperides behind his back. This is a copy of one of the works of Polykleitos from around 450 BC.

Heracles. Rome, 1st cent.AD. Bronze.
In his right hand the hero held a bow and arrow and in his left perhaps the lion skin. Across his chest are traces of a quiver strap.

Apollo. Rome, c.150 AD. Marble. Restored c.1790.
The god Apollo is standing with his lyre. The holy snake, python, is wound around the tree trunk on which in Greek is written: "Apollonios made it".

Apollo.

Melpomene. Monte Calvo. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The long-sleeved garment with high-sitting belt was worn by actors in Greek tragedy. The wreath of vines and grapes shows the association with Dionysos, the god of the Theatre. The woman is Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy.
Мяф! В Павловском парке стоит её бронзовая копия...

Athena Parthenos. Amelia, Italy. AD 100-150. Marble.
The goddess is wearing a helmet crowned by a sphinx flanked by winged horses. It is a copy of the gold and ivory statue by Pheidias originally in Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis.

Athena. Rome, 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The helmet is pushed up on her forehead. It was decorated with a sphinx, while the cheek guards have ram's horns in relief. Monsters on helmets and shields were to scare the enemy and protect the bearer against evil.

Hermes. Italy, c.150 AD. Marble.
The winged sandals show that this is the Messenger of the Gods. The statue is assembled from parts of several different ancient statues. It was made in the 18th cent.in Rome probably in the workshop of Cavaceppi.

Hermes. Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
Hermes, the Messenger of the Gods, ties his winged sandals as he raises his head and listens to Zeus's command. Copy of a Greek bronze statue by Lysippos c.330 BC. Restored in the 18th cent.by Cavaceppi.

Pan. Rome? 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Zeus / Jupiter. Found in Valentano near Lake Bolsena, Latium. Late 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Zeus. Rome. Late 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
Long hair and curly beard belong to one of the "father gods". Here it is probably Zeus. Traces of red colour in the hair and beard show that the statue was painted.

Poseidon. Rome, 4th cent.AD. Carrara marble.

The Philosopher Socrates, c.469-399 BC?
Roman copy of a Greek 3rd cent.BC original. Marble.

The Philosopher Plato, 428-348 DC.
From Athens. Roman copy of a Greek 4th cent.BC original. Marble.

Anacreon. Monte Calvo. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

The Tragic Poet Euriprdes, c.480-406 BC. Roman copy of a 4th cent.BC Greek original. Marble.

The Tragic Poet Sophocles, c.495-406 BC. Roman copy of a Greek original c,270 BC. Marble.

The Tragic Poet Aischylos, 525-456 BC? Roman copy of a Greek 4th cent.BC original. Marble.

Odysseus. Rome. Late 1st cent.AD. Marble.

Penelope. From Rome. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Statues of Athletes in a Palestra. Rome. 1st cent.BC - 1st cent.AD. Terracotta.
The relief shows a palestra with a small shrine to the hero Heracles. On either side is a colonnade with statues of athletes: one of them with the palms of victory.

Leda and the Swan. Rome. 1st cent.AD, copy of a Greek original from c.370 BC. Marble.

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Female Votary. Cyprus, 5th-4th cent.BC. Limestone.
The young woman wears a wreath of laurel and flowers and many jewels. In her right arm she holds a small calf which she presents to a divinity, probably Aphrodite. Placed as a votive in a sanctuary.

Winged Female Demon. Sicily. 6th cent.BC. Limestone.
The kneeling position indicated fast movement in early Greek art. Such relief slabs, called metopes, were set on the outside of a temple above the columns.

Offering to a Hero or a God. Greece. C.300 BC. Marble.
A pious family offers a ram to two deities dining at a table in a temple. The female deity sprinkles incense into a small brazier on the table. In the background is the head of a horse, a symbol of heroism.

Dedication to Zeus Epiteleios Philios. Athens, c.350 BC. Marble.
Three named dedicants are on the left, bringing gifts to a divine couple. The relief honours Zeus, his mother, Filia, and his wife, Agathe Tyche, Good Fortune.

A Gift for the God of Healing. Macedonia, c.420 BC. Marble.
By throwing stones the youths make the healing god, Asklepios, appear in the guise of a snake. A patient hails him from a stretcher. The relief was probably a gift in an Asklepios sanctuary.

Head of a Youth (kouros). Athens. c.520 BC. Marble.
Belonging originally to a tomb statue of a nude, standing youth. Its "cauliflower" ears may refer to the athletic prowess of the deceased.

Relief Dedicated to Several deities. Piraeus, c.420 BC. Marble.
The absence of attributes makes identification of the deities difficult. The donor of the relief is seen in small size on the left. The style and quality is close to the sculptures of the Parthenon in Athens.

Offering to Staphylos, the Grape God. Thrace, 4th cent.BC. Marble.
The god stands in a small temple with a row of cover tiles along the roof. His staff was once painted in. At his side is Athena, representing the donor, an Athenian.

Fragment of a Votive Relief. Macedonia. 3rd cent.BC. Marble.
The young man is a temple steward holding a knife in order to kill a sacrificial animal. Above a snake is winding around a tree. The setting is a sanctuary for Asklepios who may have been represented to the left.

Fragment of a Relief. Unknown provenance. Roman copy of an original from c.460 BC. Marble.
The fragment shows a hand holding up a theatre mask of Silenus. Such masks were used in Greek comedy and satyr plays. The fragment may have belonged to a grave marker for an actor.

Relief from a Tomb. Athens, c.320 BC. Marble.
The relief decorated an interior wall of a three-sided monument framing the figure of the deceased. The rough features and the tunic leaving one shoulder bare convey the low social status of a stable boy.

Grave Relief for a Soldier. Athens, c.330 BC. Marble.
The soldier is in combat, raising his sword to kill a prostrate enemy. Content, quality and format suggest that this may have been part of an Athenian state memorial.

Grave Relief for Philostrate and Hippon. Athens, c.350 BC. Marble.
Hippon was buried after his mother Philostrate. Since he died unmarried, a wedding vase was cut in the pediment and his father's comforting hand added.

Relief with Amazonomachy. Athens, 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
An Amazon wearing a short tunic and helmet is in combat with a naked Greek ina rocky landscape. The Amazons were female warriors who in the myths were the archetypical enemies of the Greeks.

Head of an Egyptian Queen or Goddess. Alexandria? 2nd cent.BC. Marble.
The young woman wore a diadem, as used by Egyptian queens and Aphrodite. The features are soft. The back of head was attached in stucco. Both traits are typical of sculpture from Greek Alexandria.

Statue of a Young Man. Sicily, c.470-460 BC. Bronze.
The figure originally held a libation bowl in his right hand. Nipples, lips, eyebrows, and navel are inlaid in another alloy. Perhaps brought to Rome as spoils of war and reused in a sanctuary in Rome.

Part of a Votive relief. Provenience unknown. 2nd cent.BC. Marble.
A group of women carrying torches and wearing laurel wreaths. To the left is the arm of a seated figure with a large torch, probably the goddess of the Underworld, Demeter.

Kybele. Italy. 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The hairstyle is that worn in the 5th century BC. The head is thought to imitate a statue of the mother of the gods which stood in a temple on the Agora in Athens.

Young Woman. Syracuse, Sicily. Late 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The strictly frontal, symmetrical head belongs to a type known in many Roman copies: a standing woman dressed in a peplos which copied a bronze statue of Artemis from c.460 BC that stood in Athens.

Wounded Amazon. Rome, c.150 AD. Marble.

Head of a Wounded Amazon. Rome, c.150 AD. Marble.
The head with the elaborate coiffure once surmounted the statue of a wounded Amazon. Roman copies are known of three different Classical statues of Amazons.

Head of "The Discus Bearer". Findspot unknown. C.50 AD. Marble from Thasos.
The short hair is characteristic of statues of athletes by Polykleitos. The very fine, detailed rendering of the individual locks and the sharply defined rims of the eyes reproduce the character of the bronze original.

"The Discus Bearer". Findspot unknown. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The man is leaning against a support in the form of a sea monster and holding a pomegranate in his hand. This is a copy of a bronze statue made by Polykleitos around 460-450 BC, representing an athlete. Other Roman copies show that he had a discus in his hand.

Diomedes. Frascati, the Tusculum of Antiquity. 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The head comes from a statue of the hero Diomedes of Argos. He stood with a sword in his right hand while his left held the Palladion, the ancient image of Athena he had stolen from Troy. He is turning his head towards Odysseus who wants to take the statue from him.

Meleager. Monte Cassino, 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The hero stands with his dog at his side, holding a spear with which, according to the myth, he had killed the Calydonian boar. The many extant copies show that the statue reproduces a famous Greek work from 340 BC.

Meleager. Rome. 1st-2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The head comes from the statue of the same type as the torso beside it. The hero was shown gazing into his threatening future in which, according to the myth, his mother would have him killed because he had slain her brothers.

Aphrodite "Cnidia". Rome? 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The head represents one of the most famous statues of Antiquity, the nude Aphrodite by the sculptor Praxiteles made in c.350 BC and set up in Cnidos in Asia Minor.

Aphrodite "pudica'. Rome? 1st-2nd cent.AD. Marble.
Aphrodite pudica, the chaste, was represented as just having bathed, with her cloak placed over a water-jar at her side. The right hand lay over her breast, and the left shielded the pubic region.

Aphrodite, called "Hera Borghesa". Monte Calvo. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.


Kybele. Campania, c.60 BC. Marble.
The Oriental mother-goddess was worshipped in Italy from 204 BC. She is represented seated on a throne flanked by lions. On her head she is wearing a crown depicting a city wall with towers and gates.

Dionysos. Rome. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
Dionysos can be identified by the panther sitting beside him.

Head of "The Resting Satyr". Findspot unknown. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The sweetish expression and the short hair which wreathes the face show that this is a copy of the very popular Resting Satyr. The deeply-drilled grooves in the hair indicate that the head was made in the 2nd cent.AD.

Dionysos. Rome. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The young god has small cow-horns on his forehead and is wearing a wreath of ivy. Such statues were found in Roman gardens.



Dionysos. Rome. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
This is an old bearded Dionysos with fine curls and a head-band with vine leaves and grapes around it. The head belonged to a herm of an old-fashioned representation of the wine god.

Dionysos, God of Wine, with Pan and a Panther. From a Roman villa near Naples. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Antinous as Dionysos

Dionysos.

Heracles.

Heracles. Split in Croatia. 1st cent.AD. Marble.
The short, tousled hair and the narrow eyes are characteristic of the Late Classical style and recall the works of Skopas. The head has the appearance of Heracles, but may also represent an athlete.

Heracles. From the environs of Rome. Early 1st cent.AD. Marble.
Heracles holds the golden Apples of the Hesperides behind his back. This is a copy of one of the works of Polykleitos from around 450 BC.

Heracles. Rome, 1st cent.AD. Bronze.
In his right hand the hero held a bow and arrow and in his left perhaps the lion skin. Across his chest are traces of a quiver strap.

Apollo. Rome, c.150 AD. Marble. Restored c.1790.
The god Apollo is standing with his lyre. The holy snake, python, is wound around the tree trunk on which in Greek is written: "Apollonios made it".


Apollo.

Melpomene. Monte Calvo. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The long-sleeved garment with high-sitting belt was worn by actors in Greek tragedy. The wreath of vines and grapes shows the association with Dionysos, the god of the Theatre. The woman is Melpomene, the Muse of Tragedy.
Мяф! В Павловском парке стоит её бронзовая копия...

Athena Parthenos. Amelia, Italy. AD 100-150. Marble.
The goddess is wearing a helmet crowned by a sphinx flanked by winged horses. It is a copy of the gold and ivory statue by Pheidias originally in Parthenon on the Athenian Acropolis.

Athena. Rome, 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
The helmet is pushed up on her forehead. It was decorated with a sphinx, while the cheek guards have ram's horns in relief. Monsters on helmets and shields were to scare the enemy and protect the bearer against evil.

Hermes. Italy, c.150 AD. Marble.
The winged sandals show that this is the Messenger of the Gods. The statue is assembled from parts of several different ancient statues. It was made in the 18th cent.in Rome probably in the workshop of Cavaceppi.


Hermes. Hadrian's Villa at Tivoli. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
Hermes, the Messenger of the Gods, ties his winged sandals as he raises his head and listens to Zeus's command. Copy of a Greek bronze statue by Lysippos c.330 BC. Restored in the 18th cent.by Cavaceppi.

Pan. Rome? 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Zeus / Jupiter. Found in Valentano near Lake Bolsena, Latium. Late 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Zeus. Rome. Late 2nd cent.AD. Marble.
Long hair and curly beard belong to one of the "father gods". Here it is probably Zeus. Traces of red colour in the hair and beard show that the statue was painted.

Poseidon. Rome, 4th cent.AD. Carrara marble.

The Philosopher Socrates, c.469-399 BC?
Roman copy of a Greek 3rd cent.BC original. Marble.

The Philosopher Plato, 428-348 DC.
From Athens. Roman copy of a Greek 4th cent.BC original. Marble.

Anacreon. Monte Calvo. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

The Tragic Poet Euriprdes, c.480-406 BC. Roman copy of a 4th cent.BC Greek original. Marble.

The Tragic Poet Sophocles, c.495-406 BC. Roman copy of a Greek original c,270 BC. Marble.

The Tragic Poet Aischylos, 525-456 BC? Roman copy of a Greek 4th cent.BC original. Marble.

Odysseus. Rome. Late 1st cent.AD. Marble.

Penelope. From Rome. 2nd cent.AD. Marble.

Statues of Athletes in a Palestra. Rome. 1st cent.BC - 1st cent.AD. Terracotta.
The relief shows a palestra with a small shrine to the hero Heracles. On either side is a colonnade with statues of athletes: one of them with the palms of victory.

Leda and the Swan. Rome. 1st cent.AD, copy of a Greek original from c.370 BC. Marble.


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Некоторые в очень необычном ракурсе - сразу хочется что-нибудь с ними сделать...
Так берите, не стесняйтесь
Спасибо!
Дело в лентяе-художнике, которого некому погонять. Но вот такие просмотры всё-таки стимулируют - сразу хочется что-то делать. Может и раскачаюсь.
Вам спасибо, что смотрите и используете. А уж мы вас раскачаем!