Works of Art (34)
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Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpina, 1805–12, Francesco Rosaspina (Italian), after an oil painting by Francesco Albani (Italian), Engraving and etching (45.78.123) |
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Bell krater depicting the return of Persephone, ca. 440 B.C.; Red-figure, Attributed to the Persephone Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (28.57.23) |
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Box mirror with the head of Pan, late 4th century B.C.; Hellenistic,
Greek, Bronze (25.78.44a-d) |
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Calyx-krater (vessel for mixing wine and water) depicting Herakles, Theseus, and Perithous in Hades, ca. 450–440 B.C.; red-figure,
Greek; Attic,
Attributed to the Nekyia Painter,
Terracotta (08.258.21) |
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Column-krater, ca. 550 B.C.; black-figure, Attributed to Lydos, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (31.11.11) |
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Contest between Athena and Poseidon, ca. 1543, Antonio Fantuzzi (Italian, Bolognese), after Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florentine), Etching; sheet, trimmed to platemark (49.97.589) |
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The Dream of Aeneas, Salvator Rosa (Italian, Neapolitan), Oil on canvas (65.118) |
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Endymion sarcophagus, Mid-Imperial, Severan, early 3rd century A.D.,
Roman, Marble (47.100.4) |
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The Fall of Phaeton: From the series The Metamorphoses, ca. 1588, Anonymous engraver, after Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (49.97.662) |
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The Fall of Phaeton: From the series The Metamorphoses, ca. 1588, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Pen and red-brown ink, brush and brown wash, heightened with white, indented for transfer (1992.376) |
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Feast of the Gods at the Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, 1587, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), after Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish), Engraving, printed from three plates on three attached sheets; second state of four (2000.113) |
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Fragment from the Eleusinian Relief, ca. 27 B.C.–14 A.D.; Augustan, Fragments of a Roman copy set in a plaster cast of the original Greek relief of ca. 350–325 B.C., Marble (14.130.9) |
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Hekateion, 1st–2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble (1987.11.2) |
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Intaglio with the head of Asklepios, 1st century B.C.–3rd century A.D.,
Roman,
Carnelian (81.6.94) |
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Iris, Messenger of the Gods, also known as Another Voice, Called Iris, modeled ca. 1895, this bronze cast 1965, Auguste Rodin (French), Bronze, on a black marble base (1984.364.7) |
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Judgment of Paris, ca. 1510–20, Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian); Designed by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian), Italian, Engraving (19.74.1) |
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Kylix (drinking cup), ca. 470 B.C.; Classical, white-ground, Attributed to the Villa Giulia Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1979.11.15) |
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Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 500 B.C.; black-figure on white ground,
Attributed to the Sappho Painter,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (41.162.29) |
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The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, ca. 1550,
Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Medulich or Meldolla) (Italian, Venetian),
Oil on wood (1973.116) |
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Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus, 1624, Nicolas Poussin (French), Oil on canvas (71.56) |
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Nolan neck-amphora with triple handles, ca. 470–460 B.C.; red-figure,
Attributed to the Achilles Painter,
Greek, Attic,
Terracotta (25.189.2) |
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Omnia vincit Amor, 1599, Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bolognese) (17.3.1853) |
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Ovidio metamorphoseos vulgare (Ovid's Metamorphoses in the Vernacular), by Giovanni Bonsignore, 2d ed. (Venice: Lucantonio Giunta, 1501), Woodcut illustrations by 15th-century Venetian school (22.16) |
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Pair of candelabra, modeled in 1840, Antoine-Louis Barye (French), Bronze (10.108.1a,b) |
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Pan Reclining before a Large Vase, published 1648, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ("Il Grechetto") (Italian), Etching (17.50.17[464]) |
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Plaque of Mithras slaying the bull, mid-Imperial, 2nd or early 3rd century A.D.,
Roman,
Bronze (1997.145.3) |
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The Rape of Proserpina, ca. 1750, Italian; Doccia, Hard-paste porcelain (1997.377) |
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The Rape of Proserpina, ca. 1760–95, Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, Bolognese), Etching (60.611.66) |
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The Rape of Proserpina, Giuseppe Scolari (Italian, Vicenzan), Woodcut (22.73.3[152]) |
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Statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions, Imperial, second half of 2nd century A.D.,
Roman,
Bronze (97.22.24), |
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Themis (goddess of custom and law), second half of 4th century B.C., Greek, Marble (03.12.17) |
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The Titian's Goblet, 1833, Thomas Cole (American), Oil on canvas (04.29.2) |
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Vertumnus and Pomona, ca. 1760–70, François Boucher (French), Brown chalk (60.176.2) |
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Vulcan at His Forge with Mars and Venus, 1543, Enea Vico (Italian), after Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma), Engraving (49.97.351) |
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Thematic Essays (11)
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