Relief Art

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Romano-Germanic Museum - Jupiter pillarFragment of a square Jupiter pillar. Three sides depict vario

Detail of an ancient Egyptian wooden chest, showing a king making an offering to the crocodile-god S

Roman tombstone - everyday life* Trier, 2nd century CEhttps://rlp.museum-digital.de/index.php?t=obje

A reredos detail from 1450sFrom Urjala church (currently in National Museum of Finland)

ancientart:Detail of the Heracles rock relief at Behistun, city of Izeh, Khuzestan province, Iran.Ph

Orpheus and Eurydice face Hermes (in his role as psychopomp).  Roman copy of the Augustan period, af

Ivory furniture plaque from Assyria, carved with a falcon-headed figure in relief.  Artist unknown;

glencairnmuseum:According to Christian tradition, today is Holy Saturday, the day before Easter Sund

Daedalus shows Queen Pasiphaë of Crete the wooden heifer he has constructed so that she may have int

Bas relief, Folies Bergère, Paris, 1984.

Detail from gypsum-alabaster relief of a foreign groom in a tributary processionFrom the palace at K

Marble relief at the Palazzo degli Uffici showing Mussolini, circa World War II.

Ancient Egyptian painted relief showing men fishing on a small boat, from the mastaba of Nikausesi a

Relief depicting a porter with a basket of fledglings, from the Mastaba of Princess Sesheshet Idutat

Arch of Titus, RomeSource: I, Sailko / CC BY-SA (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/)

Temple relief

met-greekroman-art:Terracotta relief probably from a funnel vase, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek

theancientwayoflife:~ Grave stele of Stratokles.Culture: GreekPeriod: Classical PeriodDate: Early 4t

Ancient Roman tombstone depicting Heracles/Hercules and Hesione, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy,

Archaeological Museum of PatraMarble sarcophagus of attic type. On the long side is depicted a hunti

An Assyrian soldier conducts captives in a boat.  Gypsum alabaster relief, artist unknown; ca. 668-6

A hero subdues a lion.  Relief sculpture from Wall M of the entrance court of the palace of Sargon I

hildegardavon:ThetisTerracotta relief plaque (‘Melian relief’) with Peleus and Thetis. A lion indica

lionofchaeronea:Marble relief, traditionally known as the “Death of Meleager”.  Artist unknown; 2nd

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