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Works of Art (62)
Aedicula with small landscape: From the "Black Room" of the Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase, last decade of 1st century B.C.; Augustan, Roman, Wall painting; Fresco (20.192.1); Egyptianizing scene: From the "Black Room" of the Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase, last decade of 1st century B.C.; Augustan, Roman, Wall painting; Fresco (20.192.2); Egyptianizing scene: From the "Black Room" of the Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase, last decade of 1st century B.C.; Augustan, Roman, Wall painting; Fresco (20.192.3) 
 
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, Marsyas, and the Judgment of Midas, 1582, Melchior Meier (German, active Tuscany), Engraving (41.1.210) 
 
Ariadne, 1913, Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, born Greece), Oil and graphite on canvas (1996.403.10),  
 
Armorial Plate (Tondino), ca. 1520–25 (or 1519?), Nicolò da Urbino (probably Nicola di Bagriele Sbarage) (Italian), Majolica (1975.1.1019)  
 
Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, ca. 1616–17, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian), Italian (Rome), Marble (1976.92) 
 
Bacchanal, ca. 1635–36, Nicolas Poussin (French), French, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over faint black chalk underdrawing (1998.225) 
 
Bacchante, also known as Grapes, ca. 1874, Auguste Rodin (French), Terracotta, on a wooden base (1975.312.7) 
 
Bell krater depicting the return of Persephone, ca. 440 B.C.; Red-figure, Attributed to the Persephone Painter, Greek, Attic, Terracotta (28.57.23) 
 
Bridal Chamber of Herse, Tapestry, ca. 1550, Workshop of Willem de Pannemaker (Flemish), Made/manufactured: Brussels, Southern Netherlands, Wool, silk, silver (41.190.135)  
 
Broth Bowl and Cover (scodella and tagliere), ca. 1530–40, Baldassare Manara (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1043a)  
 
Cadmus Fighting the Dragon Who Had Killed His Men, Léon Davent (French), after Francesco Primaticcio (Italian, Bolognese), Etching; sheet, trimmed within platemark (49.97.570)  
 
Daphne, 1853; this carving, 1854, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (American), Marble (1973.133) 
 
Decorative Cartouche with a River God and Symbols of Francis I, 16th century, Anonymous, School of Fontainebleau, French, Pen and brown ink, brush and gray brown wash, over red chalk underdrawing (2001.514)  
 
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)  
 
Ewer with Wild Man Finial, ca. 1500, German; Made in Nuremberg, Silver, silver-gilt, painted and enameled decoration (53.20.2)  
 
Ewer, 1784–85, Marked by Jean-Baptiste-François Chéret (French), Paris, Silver (1980.79) 
 
Fall of the Giants, 1663, Salvator Rosa (Italian), Etching with drypoint (24.63.1829) 
 
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)  
 
Giant, by 1818, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish), Spanish, Burnished aquatint, 1st state (35.42) 
 
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 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)  
 
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)  
 
Landscape with Perseus and Andromeda: From the "Mythological Room" of the Imperial Villa at Boscotrecase, last decade of 1st century B.C.; Augustan, Roman, Wall painting; Fresco (20.192.16) 
 
Leather Panel (Allegory of Music), ca. 1570–90, Northern France, Blind-stamped, embossed, molded, and incised leather on later wooden mount (2006.71)  
 
Leda and the Swan, Bacchiacca (Francesco d'Ubertino) (Italian, Florentine), Oil on wood (1982.60.11) 
 
Medallion with a griffin fighting an Arimaspian, 4th century B.C., Italic; Praeneste, Bronze (10.230.1) 
 
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) 
 
Nessus Abducting Deianira, modeled in 1814, Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish), Marble (2004.174) 
 
Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864, Gustave Moreau (French), Oil on canvas (21.134.1)  
 
Pandora, ca. 1914, Odilon Redon (French), Oil on canvas (60.19.1) 
 
Pendant, ca. 1550–75, Flemish or German (Cologne?), Boxwood and various woods for marquetry, partly stained (17.190.310)  
 
Perseus Saving Andromeda, ca. 1775, Giovanni David (Italian), Etching (2001.741) 
 
Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 1804–6, Antonio Canova (Italian), Marble (67.110.1) 
 
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)  
 
Polyphemus and Galatea in a Landscape, last decade of 1st century B.C.; mid-Augustan, Third Style, Roman, Fresco (20.192.17)ar 
 
Sarcophagus lid, 6th century B.C., Klazomenian, Terracotta (21.169.1) 
 
Sarcophagus, ca. 475–460 B.C.; Classical, Cypriot; Said to be from the necropolis at Golgoi, Limestone (74.51.2451)  
 
Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, cassone panel, Biagio di Antonio (Italian, Florentine), Tempera on wood, gilt ornaments (09.136.1)  
 
Seated River God, Nymph with an Oar, and Putto, 1696–1770, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian), Pen and brown ink, brush with pale (yellow) and dark brown wash, over black chalk (37.165.32) 
 
Study for the Fonte Gaia, Siena, Jacopo della Quercia (Italian), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on vellum (49.141)  
 
Tantalus, Icarus, Phaeton, and Ixion: From the series The Four Disgracers, 1588, Hendrick Goltzius (Netherlandish), after Cornelisz van Haarlem (Netherlandish), Engraving (53.601.338 [3-5, and 65]) 
 
Terms: Figures of Flora and Priapus, 1616 Pietro Bernini (Italian), Originally in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome, Marble 
 
The Feast of Acheloüs, ca. 1615, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish); and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish), Oil on wood (45.141) 
 
The Great Sirens, 1947, Paul Delvaux (Belgian), Oil on Masonite (1979.356) 
 
The Muses on Mount Parnassus, 1542–43, Antonio Fantuzzi (Italian, Bolognese, active at Fontainebleau), Etching (49.97.585) 
 
The Pleiades, 1885, Elihu Vedder (American), Oil on canvas (10.64.13) 
 
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 the Sabines, 1585, Andrea Andreani (Italian, Mantuan), after a bronze relief by Jean Boulogne, called Giambologna (Flemish), Chiaroscuro woodcut from four blocks, on three paper panels (22.73.3[73–75]) 
 
The Return of Neptune, ca. 1754, John Singleton Copley (American), Oil on canvas (59.198) 
 
Torso of a centaur, Imperial, 1st century A.D., Roman; copy of a Greek statue of the 2nd century B.C., Rosso antico marble (09.221.6)  
 
Two Winged Putti, ca. 1748–50, François Boucher (French), Black chalk, brush and gray wash, heightened with white chalk, on beige paper (60.175.1) 
 
Ulysses at the Table of Circe: Plate 16 of The Odyssey of Homer Engraved from the Compositions of John Flaxman R.A., 1805, John Flaxman (British), Printmaker: James Parker (British), London, England, Etching (1977.595.53) 
 
Untitled, 1985, Mimmo Paladino (Italian), Limestone, iron, encaustic, paint (1986.8) 
 
Vase, late 18th century, John Flaxman (English); Made by Josiah Wedgewood and Sons, Etruria/Staffordshire, England, Jasperware (09.194.7) 
 
Hortus Palatinus (plate 32), bound with Les raisons des forces mouvants, 1620, Salomon de Caus (Flemish, active in Germany), Jan Norton, Frankfurt, Etching (49.122) 
 
Le Sorti … intitolate giardino di pensieri (The Fates … Entitled Garden of Ideas): Garden of Ideas (frontispiece), Author: Francesco Marcolini, with verses by Lodovico Dolce, Venice: Francesco Marcolini, October 1540, Printed book with woodcut illustrations (37.37.23) 
 
Thematic Essays (24)