Relief depicting Hermes, Orpheus, and Eurydice. It depicts the moment at which Orpheus, having struck a deal with Hades to retrieve Eurydice from the underworld, has turned around to look at his wife and thereby loses her forever. The relief was…
Front of a sarcophagus with a Dionysiac ceremonial procession (thiasos). On the lid, there is a banquet scene with Dionysus and Ariadne. The sarcophagus was discovered in Rome, in a tomb on via Aurelia Antica in 1956.
Male torso depicted dynamic tension. It was formerly considered to be the torso of a satyr when it was in the Gaddi collection, Florence, the sculpture is now thought to represent a centaur straining against his bonds. It was probably discoverd in…
Decorated hydria with Hercules' last labor, the capture of the three-headed hound Cerberus, Hercules is depicted while bringing the animal to Eurystheus who hid in a jar for the fright, begging Heracles to leave and take the dog with him. The vase…
Statue of the so-called Spinario, a boy withdrawing a thorn from the sole of his foot. Roman copy of a late Hellenistic original. The sculpture was found in Rome, on the Palatine .