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Works of Art (174)
Allegory of the Planets and Continents, sketch, 1752, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (1977.1.3) 
 
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) 
 
Amphora, ca. 530 B.C.; Archaic; red-figure, Signed by Andokides, as potter; Attributed to the Andokides Painter (red-figure decoration); Attributed to Psiax (black-figure decoration), Greek, Attic, Terracotta (63.11.6)  
 
Annibale Carracci Introduces Painting to Apollo and Minerva, Pietro Aquila (Italian), after a drawing by Carlo Maratta (Italian), Etching (51.501.2593) 
 
Apollo and Daphne, ca. 1538–40, Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Medulich or Meldolla) (Italian, Venetian), Etching (26.70.3[195]) 
 
Apollo and Diana, ca. 1500–1505, Jacopo de' Barbari (Italian), Engraving (20.92.2) 
 
Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus, 1784, Raphael Morghen (Italian, Neapolitan), after Anton Raphael Mengs (German), Engraving and etching (28.22.36) 
 
Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus, ca. 1514–20, Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian), after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian), Engraving (17.37.150) 
 
Apollo Belvedere,ca. 1530–34, Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian), Engraving (49.97.114)  
 
Apollo Slays the Python and Quarrels with Cupid: From the series The Story of Apollo and Daphne, mid-16th century, Master of the Die, after Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Sienese), Engraving (49.97.323) 
 
Apollo, Marsyas, and the Judgment of Midas, 1582, Melchior Meier (German, active Tuscany), Engraving (41.1.210) 
 
Apollo, Pan, and a Putto Blowing a Horn, 1560s, Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), after Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, Bolognese), Engraving (49.95.161) 
 
Apollo, Pegasus, and the Hippocrene Spring, mid-16th century, Angiolo Falconetto (Italian), after Giulio Romano (Italian, Roman, ca. 1499–1546), Etching (49.95.286) 
 
Apollo, 1588, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (51.501.3) 
 
Apollo, ca. 1595–97, Adriaen de Vries (Netherlandish), Bronze (41.190.534)  
 
Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, sketch for a ceiling painting, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (1980.363) 
 
Armorial Plate (Tondino), ca. 1520–25 (or 1519?), Nicolò da Urbino (probably Nicola di Bagriele Sbarage) (Italian), Majolica (1975.1.1019)  
 
Aryballos, ca. 570 B.C.; black-figure, Greek, Attic, Signed by Nearchos as potter, Terracotta (26.49)  
 
Aureus of Septimius Severus, with a portrait of Julia Domna, ca. 193–96 A.D.; Severan, Roman, Gold (99.35.218) 
 
Autumn, ca. 1594, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Pen and brown ink, red-brown wash, over black chalk, heightened with white (61.25.2) 
 
Bacchanal with a Wine Vat, ca. 1490, After Andrea Mantegna (Italian, Paduan), Italian, Engraving (1986.1159)  
 
Bell krater depicting the return of Persephone, ca. 440 B.C.; Red-figure, Attributed to the Persephone Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (28.57.23) 
 
Belt buckle, ca. 1868, California Jewelry Company, manufacturer; William Cummings, patentee, American
Gold, champlevé enamel (2000.571)
 
 
Birth of Cupid, Master of Flora (Italian, Fontainebleau), Oil on wood (41.48)  
 
Box mirror with the head of Pan, late 4th century B.C.; Hellenistic, Greek, Bronze (25.78.44a-d) 
 
Box with Sleeping Eros, 300s, Roman or Byzantine; Said to have been found in Tartus, Syria, Silver (47.100.33)  
 
Bridal Chamber of Herse, Tapestry, ca. 1550, Workshop of Willem de Pannemaker (Flemish), Made/manufactured: Brussels, Southern Netherlands, Wool, silk, silver (41.190.135)  
 
Bronze hydria (water jar), 4th century B.C.; Classical, Greek, Bronze (44.11.9) 
 
Broth Bowl and Cover (scodella and tagliere), ca. 1530–40, Baldassare Manara (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1043a)  
 
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)  
 
Cameo with Hercules, ca. 1220, Probably made in southern Italy, Sardonyx with modern gold frame (38.150.23)  
 
Candelabrum Centerpiece, 1835–36, Paul Storr (British), Silver-gilt, (60.55.10a-s) 
 
Candelabrum with Stand, 1838, Paul Storr (British), Silver, (1976.423-h) 
 
Centerpiece, ca. 1775–80, Italian; Cozzi factory, Hard-paste porcelain (1977.216.37) 
 
Cista with Herakles Amazonomachy, 4th–3rd centuries B.C., Italic, Bronze (22.84.2) 
 
Column-krater with artist painting a marble statue of Herakles, ca. 350–320 B.C.; Red-figure, Greek, South Italian, Apulian, Attributed to the Group of Boston 00.348, Terracotta (50.11.4) 
 
Column-krater, ca. 550 B.C.; black-figure, Attributed to Lydos, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (31.11.11)  
 
Contest between Athena and Poseidon, ca. 1543, Antonio Fantuzzi (Italian, Bolognese), after Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florentine), Etching; sheet, trimmed to platemark (49.97.589)  
 
Cupid with the Arms of Mars, ca. 1547–62, Adamo Scultori (Italian, Mantuan), Engraving (49.97.479) 
 
Diana and Actaeon, 1836, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French), Oil on canvas (1975.1.162)  
 
Diana and Actaeon, ca. 1590–95, Made by Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, white heightening, over traces of black chalk (1997.93)  
 
Diana and Cupid, 1761, Pompeo Girolamo Batoni (Italian, Roman), Oil on canvas (1982.438) 
 
Diana and Her Nymphs: From a set of Mythological Scenes, 1644, Laurent de La Hyre; Probably woven in the workshop of Hippolyte de Comans in the Faubourg Saint-Marcel, Paris, before 1662, French (Paris) Wool, silk, and silver-gilt thread (20.44.3) 
 
Diana the Huntress, after 1526, Giampietrino (Giovanni Pietro Rizzoli) (Italian, Milanese), Oil on wood 1989.21 
 
Diana: From the series Gods in Niches, 1526, Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, Veronese or Parmese), after Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florentine), Engraving, as retouched by Franceso Villamena (Italian) (49.97.233) 
 
Diana, 1888–89; this cast, 1890, Frederick William MacMonnies (American), Bronze (27.21.9) 
 
Diana, 1892–93; this cast, 1928, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze, gilt (28.101) 
 
Diana, 1893–94; this cast, 1894 or after, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze (1985.353) 
 
Dish: The Wedding Feast of Cupid and Psyche, 1558, Pierre Reymond (French), Enamel on copper (1984.195)  
 
Disk with a herm of Dionysos in relief, Early Imperial, third quarter of 1st century A.D., Roman, Marble, pigment (26.60.27)  
 
Drowning of Britomartis, 1547–59, Probably designed by Jean Cousin the Elder (French); possibly woven by Pierre II Blasse and Jacques Langlois (both French), Wool and silk (42.57.1)  
 
Endymion sarcophagus, Mid-Imperial, Severan, early 3rd century A.D., Roman, Marble (47.100.4) 
 
Fall of the Giants, 1638, Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian, Bolognese), after Guido Reni (Italian, Bolognese), Chiaroscuro woodcut from three blocks, printed on four sheets (17.50.2) 
 
Fall of the Giants, ca. 1530s–40s, Attributed to Girolamo Fagiuoli (Italian, active Bologna), after Perino del Vaga (Italian), Engraving (49.95.8) 
 
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)  
 
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) 
 
Fragmentary head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet, probably Julio-Claudian, ca. 14–68 A.D., Roman; copy of a Greek work of the 2nd century B.C., Marble, pigment, gilding (1992.11.66)  
 
Game Piece, 12th century, German (Probably made in Cologne), Walrus ivory (16.106)  
 
Head of a Bearded Man with a Garland Crown (Jupiter?), ca. 1230–50, Southern Italy, Limestone (L.2003.13) 
 
Head of Athena, Hellenistic, late 3rd–2nd century B.C., Greek, Marble (1996.178)  
 
Head of herm, 1st or 2nd century A.D.; Imperial Roman, Copy of a Greek work of the late 5th century B.C., Marble (03.12.4) 
 
Hekateion, 1st–2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble (1987.11.2) 
 
Hercules and Achelous in the Form of a Bull, ca. 1524–25, Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, Veronese or Parmese), after Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (49.50.208) 
 
Hercules and Antaeus, ca. 1516, Ugo da Carpi (Italian), after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian), Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks (22.67.80) 
 
Hercules and the Hydra of Lerna, ca. 1500–1520, Robetta (Cristofano di Michele Martini) (Italian, Florentine), after Antonio Pollaiuolo (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (27.20.2) 
 
Hercules Chasing Avarice from the Temple of the Muses, ca. 1518 (?), Ugo da Carpi (Italian); Designed by Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Sienese), Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks (20.24.76)  
 
Hercules Farnese, ca. 1592 (published and dated 1617), Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (17.37.59)  
 
Hydria (water jar) depicting Herakles with women, a satyr, and Pan in the Garden of the Hesperides, early 4th century B.C.; red-figure, Greek; Attic, Attributed to the Hesperides Painter, Terracotta (24.97.5)  
 
Hydria (water jar) with the infant Herakles strangling snakes sent by the goddess Hera, ca. 460–450 B.C.; red-figure, Greek; Attic, Attributed to the Nausicaä Painter, Terracotta (25.28)  
 
Intaglio with the head of Asklepios, 1st century B.C.–3rd century A.D., Roman, Carnelian (81.6.94) 
 
Iphicles and Hercules Attacked by Snakes, mid-15th century, Italy; Padua, Terracotta (2006.453)  
 
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) 
 
Judgment of Paris, ca. 1510–20, Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian); Designed by Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian), Italian, Engraving (19.74.1)  
 
Judgment of Paris, possibly ca. 1528, Lucas Cranach the Elder (German), Oil on wood (28.221)  
 
Kylix (drinking cup), ca. 470 B.C.; Classical, white-ground, Attributed to the Villa Giulia Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1979.11.15) 
 
Kylix, ca. 540–530 B.C.; black-figure, Attributed to the Amasis Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (1989.281.62)  
 
La Table aux Amours (The Demidoff Table), 1845, Lorenzo Bartolini (Italian), Marble (03.11a–d) 
 
Lament of the Art of Painting, ca. 1572–78, Cornelis Cort (Flemish), after Federico Zuccaro (Italian), Engraving from two plates (1988.1086) 
 
Lamenting the Death of Adonis, mid-16th century, After Luca Cambiaso (Italian), Woodcut (17.37.33) 
 
Le Bassin d'Apollon (The Fountain of Apollo, Versailles): From the series Veues des plus Beaux Lieux de France et d'Italie . . ., 1680s, Adam Perelle (French), Nicolas Langlois, Paris, Etching (52.519.84.88) 
 
Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 450 B.C.; white-ground, Attributed to the Sabouroff Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (21.88.17) 
 
Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 460–450 B.C.; red-figure Attributed to the Nikon Painter Greek, Attic Terracotta (53.224) 
 
Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 480–470 B.C.; red-figure Attributed to the Tithonos Painter Greek, Attic Terracotta (25.78.2) 
 
Lekythos (oil flask), ca. 500 B.C.; black-figure on white ground, Attributed to the Sappho Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (41.162.29) 
 
Lekythos depicting Poseidon pursuing Amymone, ca. 440 B.C.; Red-figure, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (17.230.35) 
 
Mandora or Chitarino, ca. 1420, Northern Italy, Boxwood, rosewood (64.101.1409)  
 
Marcantonio Pasqualini (1614–1691) Crowned by Apollo, 1641, Andrea Sacchi (Italian, Roman), Oil on canvas (1981.317) 
 
Mars and Venus United by Love, Paolo Veronese (Paolo Caliari) (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (10.189)  
 
Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus, 1624, Nicolas Poussin (French), Oil on canvas (71.56) 
 
Minerva and the Muses, mid-16th century, Emilian (?) school, Etching and drypoint (27.78.2[99]) 
 
Minerva Protecting the Young King of Rome, 1811, Joseph-Antoine Romagnési (French), Plaster, painted to resemble yellowish stone; green marbleized wood (frame only) (27.191.2) 
 
Minerva, 18th century (1766), Clodion (Claude Michel) (French), Rome, Italy, Terracotta (1975.312.6) 
 
Mirror with a support in the form of a nude girl, second half of 6th century B.C., Laconian; Said to be from southern Italy, Bronze (38.11.3) 
 
Naval Battle between Trojans and Greeks, 1538, Giovanni Battista Scultori (Italian, Mantuan), Engraving printed in brown ink (53.600.996)fi 
 
Neck-amphora (jar), ca. 530 B.C.; Attic, black-figure, Attributed to an artist near Exekias, Greek, Terracotta (98.8.13)  
 
Nolan neck-amphora with triple handles, ca. 470–460 B.C.; red-figure, Attributed to the Achilles Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (25.189.2) 
 
Omnia vincit Amor, 1599, Agostino Carracci (Italian, Bolognese) (17.3.1853) 
 
Pair of candelabra, modeled in 1840, Antoine-Louis Barye (French), Bronze (10.108.1a,b) 
 
Pair of flintlock pistols, 1800–1801, Samuel Brunn (English); Michael Barnett (English), Steel, wood, silver, gold (1992.330.1-.2) 
 
Pan Reclining before a Large Vase, published 1648, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione ("Il Grechetto") (Italian), Etching (17.50.17[464]) 
 
Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 525–500 B.C.; black-figure Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter Greek, Attic Terracotta (07.286.79) 
 
Panathenaic prize amphora, ca. 525–500 B.C.; black-figure, Attributed to the Kleophrades Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (16.71) 
 
Panel with the Triumph of Dionysus, 4th century; Early Byzantine, Egyptian; Said to be from Akhmim, Undyed linen and purple wool, tapestry weave (90.5.873)  
 
Pendant, ca. 1550–75, Flemish or German (Cologne?), Boxwood and various woods for marquetry, partly stained (17.190.310)  
 
Plaque of Mithras slaying the bull, mid-Imperial, 2nd or early 3rd century A.D., Roman, Bronze (1997.145.3)  
 
Plaque: Hercules Overcoming the Centaur Nessus, ca. 1570–80, Annibale Fontana (Italian, Milanese), Rock crystal in enameled gold frame of later date (32.100.237)  
 
Plaster model for Cupid and Psyche, 18th century (1794), Antonio Canova (Italian), Rome, Italy, Plaster (05.46) 
 
Poynter Apollo, 1501–3, Albrecht Dürer (German), Pen and brown and black ink (63.212)  
 
Psiche Curieuse, mid-1770s, Giovanni David (Italian), Etching and aquatint (1976.629) 
 
Pyxis with the Triumph of Dionysos in India, mid-500s, Byzantine; Possibly made in Syria, said to have been found in Rome, Ivory (17.190.56)  
 
Relief of a woman and youth reclining, late 6th–early 5th century B.C., Etruscan, Amber (17.190.2067) 
 
Relief with an archaistic Hermes, 1st century A.D., Roman, Marble (1991.11.8) 
 
Ring with head of Herakles, late 4th–3rd century B.C.; Hellenistic, Greek, Gold (10.132.1) 
 
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, cassone panel, ca. 1465, Master of the Argonauts (Italian, Florentine), Tempera on wood, gilt ornaments (09.136.2)  
 
Sleeping Cupid, mid-17th century, Bartolomeo Coriolano (Italian, Bolognese), after Guido Reni (Italian, Bolognese), Chiaroscuro woodcut from two blocks (22.73.3[107]) 
 
Stater with head of Alexander the Great, 286–281 B.C.; Hellenistic, Greek; Lysimachos, Pella, Gold (52.127.4) 
 
Statue of Aphrodite holding winged Eros, late 4th century B.C.; Hellenistic, Cypriot; Said to be from the temple at Golgoi, Limestone (74.51.2464)  
 
Statue of Aphrodite, 1st or 2nd century A.D., Roman copy of a Greek statue of the 3rd or 2nd century B.C., Marble (52.11.5)  
 
Statue of Aphrodite, 2nd century B.C.; Late Hellenistic, Greek, Marble (2006.509)  
 
Statue of Eros sleeping, Hellenistic or Augustan, 3rd century B.C.–early 1st century A.D., Greek or Roman, Bronze (43.11.4)  
 
Statue of Herakles seated on a rock, Imperial, 1st or 2nd century A.D., Roman; adaptation of a Greek statue of the late 4th or early 3rd century B.C., Marble (11.55)  
 
Statuette of Aphrodite, ca. 150–100 B.C., Greek, late Hellenistic; variant of the 4th century B.C. Aphrodite of Knidos by Praxiteles, Bronze (12.173)  
 
Statuette of Cybele on a cart drawn by lions, Imperial, second half of 2nd century A.D., Roman, Bronze (97.22.24), 
 
Statuette of Herakles, last quarter of 6th century B.C.; Archaic, Greek, Bronze (28.77) 
 
Studies for the Movements of Water, Male Nude Sheathing or Unsheathing a Sword, and Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Frontal View (recto); Study of Hercules Holding a Club Seen in Rear View (verso), 1506–8, Leonardo da Vinci (Italian), Charcoal or soft black chalk; pen and dark brown ink, on off-white laid paper (2000.328a,b)  
 
Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies (?) (verso), 1642–44, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian), Drawing in red chalk, background tinted with an almost imperceptible pale brown wash, framing lines in pen and brown ink (recto); black chalk (verso) (1973.265) 
 
Terracotta Figure of Isis-Aphrodite, Roman period, 2nd–3rd century, Egyptian, Alluvial clay; brown, black, red, and pink paint on white englobe (1991.76)  
 
Tetradrachm of Seleucus I, 300–280 B.C.; Seleucid, Iran, excavated at Pasargadae, Silver (1974.105.9) 
 
The Birth of Venus, 1875, Alexandre Cabanel (French9), Oil on canvas (94.24.1) 
 
The Destruction of the Children of Niobe: From a set of The Horses, early 1630s, Francis Clein; Woven at the Mortlake manufactory, 1650–70, English, Wool and silk (36.149.1) 
 
The Dream of Aeneas, Salvator Rosa (Italian, Neapolitan), Oil on canvas (65.118) 
 
The Fall of Phaeton: From the series The Metamorphoses, ca. 1588, Anonymous engraver, after Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (49.97.662) 
 
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) 
 
The Garden of Venus, ca. 1631–37, Pietro Testa (Italian, Roman), Etching (26.70.3[44]) 
 
The Great Hercules, 1589, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), Engraving (46.140.28) 
 
The Hope Dionysos, late 1st century A.D., with 18th-century restoration by Vincenzo Pacetti; Imperial, Roman, Marble (1990.247)  
 
The Madytos Jewelry, ca. 330–300 B.C.; Hellenistic, Greek; Said to be from Madytos, Gold (06.1217.1-.13) 
 
The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche, ca. 1550, Andrea Schiavone (Andrea Medulich or Meldolla) (Italian, Venetian), Oil on wood (1973.116)  
 
The Musicians, ca. 1595, Caravaggio (Michelangelo Merisi) (Italian, Lombard), Oil on canvas (52.81) 
 
The Power of Cupid (Jupiter Disarmed), ca. 1530–50, Master of the Die (active Rome), after Baldassare Tommaso Peruzzi (Italian, Sienese), Engraving (49.97.328) 
 
The Rape of Ganymede, 1505–15, Giovanni Battista Palumba (Master IB with the Bird) (Italian, active northern Italy and Rome), Woodcut (25.2.9) 
 
The Rape of Ganymede, ca. 1500–1505, Giulio Campagnola (Italian, Paduan), Engraving (37.3.10) 
 
The Rape of Proserpina, ca. 1750, Italian; Doccia, Hard-paste porcelain (1997.377) 
 
The Rape of Proserpina, ca. 1760–95, Gaetano Gandolfi (Italian, Bolognese), Etching (60.611.66) 
 
The Rape of Proserpina, Giuseppe Scolari (Italian, Vicenzan), Woodcut (22.73.3[152]) 
 
The Return of Neptune, ca. 1754, John Singleton Copley (American), Oil on canvas (59.198) 
 
The Titian's Goblet, 1833, Thomas Cole (American), Oil on canvas (04.29.2) 
 
The Toilet of Venus, 1751, François Boucher (French), Oil on canvas (20.155.9) 
 
The Triumph of Love, ca. 1485–90, Francesco Rosselli (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (25.2.33) 
 
Themis (goddess of custom and law), second half of 4th century B.C., Greek, Marble (03.12.17) 
 
Tile mosaic of Isis, Imperial, 2nd century A.D., Roman, Tesserae (45.16.2)  
 
Torso of draped, flying Nike, late 5th century B.C., Greek, Terracotta (07.286.23) 
 
Tray, 1806–7, Digby Scott (English), Benjamin Smith (English), partners, Silver-gilt, (1977.436.3) 
 
Triton Sounding a Conch Shell, ca. 1597–1602, Annibale Carracci (Italian, Bolognese), Black chalk on blue paper (1970.15) 
 
Triton, 16th century (1560–70), Giovanni Bologna, called Giambologna, Made in Florence, Italy, Bronze (14.40.689)  
 
Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons Sarcophagus, ca. 260–270, Roman, Phrygian marble (55.11.5)  
 
Tunic with Panels of Dionysian Figures, 400–500, Byzantine; Said to be from Panopolis (now Akhmim), Egypt, Linen, undyed, with wool panels in tapestry weave (26.9.9)  
 
Vase, 18th century (1780), Made by Wedgwood and Co., Etruria/Staffordshire, England, Black basalt (66.17) 
 
Vase, late 18th century, John Flaxman (English); Made by Josiah Wedgewood and Sons, Etruria/Staffordshire, England, Jasperware (09.194.7) 
 
Venetian Woman with Moveable Skirt, late 16th century, Italian School, Engraving (55.503.30)  
 
Venus and Adonis, ca. 1556–57, Giorgio Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), after Teodoro Ghisi (Italian, Mantuan), Engraving (53.522.28) 
 
Venus and Adonis, mid- or late 1630s, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish), Oil on canvas (37.162) 
 
Venus and Adonis, Titian (Tiziano Vecellio) (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (49.7.16)  
 
Venus and Cupid, possibly mid-1520s, Lorenzo Lotto (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (1986.138)  
 
Venus and the Lute Player, ca. 1565–70, Titian and Workshop (Italian, Venetian), Oil on canvas (36.29)  
 
Venus Entrusting an Infant to Time, ca. 1758, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian), after Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venetian), Etching (57.619.5) 
 
Venus Whipping Cupid with Roses, early 17th century, Giovanni Luigi Valesio (Italian), Engraving (17.50.16[188]) 
 
Venus Wounded by the Rose's Thorn, ca. 1516, Marco Dente da Ravenna (Italian), after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian) or Giulio Romano (Italian, Roman), Engraving (1986.1180.213) 
 
Vertumnus and Pomona, ca. 1760–70, François Boucher (French), Brown chalk (60.176.2) 
 
Victory, 1892–1903; this cast, 1912 or after (by 1916), Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Bronze, gilt (17.90.1) 
 
Vulcan at His Forge with Mars and Venus, 1543, Enea Vico (Italian), after Parmigianino (Girolamo Francesco Maria Mazzola) (Italian, Parma), Engraving (49.97.351) 
 
Farnese Hercules,1562, Jacob Bos (Netherlandish, born 's Hertogenbosch), Published by Antonio Lafréri (French), From the Metropolitan Museum's copy of the Speculum Romanae magnificentiae (Mirror of Rome's Magnificence), Engraving (41.72[2.63])  
 
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) 
 
Quatriregio (Four Realms): Signatures B2v and B3, Author: Federico Frezzi, Florence: For Piero Pacini da Pescia, July 26, 1508, Book with printed text and woodcut illustrations (21.4.1) 
 
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