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Minerva, Girolamo Genga, 1506 or 1509
paintingses:A Roman Triumph (details) by Peter Paul Rubens (1577-1640)ca. 1630, oil on canvas stuck
Odysseus listens to the song of the Sirens. Attic black-figure oenochoe, artist unknown; ca. 525-50
A Maenad (female devotee of Dionysus), brandishing her thyrsos (staff tipped with a pine cone) and a
Fragment of a pebble mosaic floor from the ancient Greek polis of Sicyon, depicting Centaurs and var
Danseuse à la Pomme, or Ancient Dancer, by Jean-Léon GérômeFrench, first exhibited in marble, ivory,
Four roundels depicting classical figures, possibly representing the four seasons, by the circle of
Lycian Apollo. Reconstituted ivory statue of the 3rd cent. CE, thought to be a copy of the original
Best of A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue, 1st and 2nd editions (1785 and 1788), Part 7 (F
Silenus or a satyr, holding a kantharos (drinking-cup) and lyre. Tondo of an Attic red-figure kylix
Orpheus and Eurydice, Jean Raoux, ca. 1709
Tannhäuser and Venus, Otto Knille, 1873
Venus and Adonis, Titian, ca. 1555-60
Proserpine, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1874
Psyche Opening the Golden Box, John William Waterhouse, 1904
The centaur Chiron teaches Achilles how to play the lyre. Carved red jasper gemstone in a modern go
The Meeting of Dido and Aeneas, Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1766
Now On View in our European Art gallery: Elisabeth Vigée Le BrunThis recently acquired portrait by E
Hellenistic bronze sculpture of Hermes. Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo credit:
Perseus and Andromeda, Joachim Wtewael, 1611
Hercules Killing the Centaur Nessus, Sebastiano Ricci (1659-1734)
Terracotta applique in the form of a griffin. From Taranto (ancient Taras/Tarentum), artist unknown
Bronze statuette of a Siren. Unknown South Italian or Etruscan artist; ca. 500 BCE. Now in the Met
Scaevola Places His Hand in the Fire, unknown Italian artist, 17th century
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