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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) |
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Apollo and the Muses on Parnassus, ca. 151420, Marcantonio Raimondi (Italian), after Raphael (Raffaello Sanzio or Santi) (Italian, Marchigian), Engraving (17.37.150) |
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Apollo, Marsyas, and the Judgment of Midas, 1582, Melchior Meier (German, active Tuscany), Engraving (41.1.210) |
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Ariadne, 1913, Giorgio de Chirico (Italian, born Greece), Oil and graphite on canvas (1996.403.10), |
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Armorial Plate (Tondino), ca. 152025 (or 1519?), Nicolò da Urbino (probably Nicola di Bagriele Sbarage) (Italian), Majolica (1975.1.1019) |
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Bacchanal: A Faun Teased by Children, ca. 161617, Gian Lorenzo Bernini (Italian), Italian (Rome), Marble (1976.92) |
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Bacchanal, ca. 163536, Nicolas Poussin (French), French, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over faint black chalk underdrawing (1998.225) |
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Bacchante, also known as Grapes, ca. 1874, Auguste Rodin (French), Terracotta, on a wooden base (1975.312.7) |
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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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Bridal Chamber of Herse, Tapestry, ca. 1550, Workshop of Willem de Pannemaker (Flemish), Made/manufactured: Brussels, Southern Netherlands, Wool, silk, silver (41.190.135) |
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Broth Bowl and Cover (scodella and tagliere), ca. 153040, Baldassare Manara (Italian), Maiolica (1975.1.1043a) |
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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) |
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Daphne, 1853; this carving, 1854, Harriet Goodhue Hosmer (American), Marble (1973.133) |
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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) |
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Diana and Actaeon, 1836,
Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (French),
Oil on canvas (1975.1.162) |
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Diana and Actaeon, ca. 159095, Made by Bartholomeus Spranger (Netherlandish), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown and gray wash, white heightening, over traces of black chalk (1997.93) |
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Ewer with Wild Man Finial, ca. 1500, German; Made in Nuremberg, Silver, silver-gilt, painted and enameled decoration (53.20.2) |
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Ewer, 178485, Marked by Jean-Baptiste-François Chéret (French), Paris, Silver (1980.79) |
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Fall of the Giants, 1663, Salvator Rosa (Italian), Etching with drypoint (24.63.1829) |
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Fragmentary head of a deity wearing a Dionysiac fillet, probably Julio-Claudian, ca. 1468 A.D.,
Roman; copy of a Greek work of the 2nd century B.C.,
Marble, pigment, gilding (1992.11.66) |
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Giant, by 1818, Francisco de Goya y Lucientes (Spanish), Spanish, Burnished aquatint, 1st state (35.42) |
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Hercules and Achelous in the Form of a Bull, ca. 152425, Giovanni Jacopo Caraglio (Italian, Veronese or Parmese), after Rosso Fiorentino (Italian, Florentine), Engraving (49.50.208) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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Leather Panel (Allegory of Music), ca. 157090,
Northern France,
Blind-stamped, embossed, molded, and incised leather on later wooden mount (2006.71) |
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Leda and the Swan, Bacchiacca (Francesco d'Ubertino) (Italian, Florentine), Oil on wood (1982.60.11) |
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Medallion with a griffin fighting an Arimaspian, 4th century B.C., Italic; Praeneste, Bronze (10.230.1) |
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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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Minerva and the Muses, mid-16th century, Emilian (?) school, Etching and drypoint (27.78.2[99]) |
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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) |
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Nessus Abducting Deianira, modeled in 1814,
Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish),
Marble (2004.174) |
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Oedipus and the Sphinx, 1864,
Gustave Moreau (French),
Oil on canvas (21.134.1) |
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Pandora, ca. 1914,
Odilon Redon (French),
Oil on canvas (60.19.1) |
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Pendant, ca. 155075, Flemish or German (Cologne?), Boxwood and various woods for marquetry, partly stained (17.190.310) |
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Perseus Saving Andromeda, ca. 1775, Giovanni David (Italian), Etching (2001.741) |
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Perseus with the Head of Medusa, 18046, Antonio Canova (Italian), Marble (67.110.1) |
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Plaque: Hercules Overcoming the Centaur Nessus, ca. 157080, Annibale Fontana (Italian, Milanese), Rock crystal in enameled gold frame of later date (32.100.237) |
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Polyphemus and Galatea in a Landscape, last decade of 1st century B.C.; mid-Augustan, Third Style, Roman, Fresco (20.192.17)ar |
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Sarcophagus lid, 6th century B.C.,
Klazomenian,
Terracotta (21.169.1) |
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Sarcophagus, ca. 475460 B.C.; Classical, Cypriot; Said to be from the necropolis at Golgoi, Limestone (74.51.2451) |
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Scenes from the Story of the Argonauts, cassone panel, Biagio di Antonio (Italian, Florentine), Tempera on wood, gilt ornaments (09.136.1) |
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Seated River God, Nymph with an Oar, and Putto, 16961770, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian), Pen and brown ink, brush with pale (yellow) and dark brown wash, over black chalk (37.165.32) |
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Study for the Fonte Gaia, Siena, Jacopo della Quercia (Italian), Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, on vellum (49.141) |
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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]) |
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Terms: Figures of Flora and Priapus, 1616 Pietro Bernini (Italian), Originally in the gardens of the Villa Borghese, Rome, Marble |
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The Feast of Acheloüs, ca. 1615, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish); and Jan Brueghel the Elder (Flemish), Oil on wood (45.141) |
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The Great Sirens, 1947, Paul Delvaux (Belgian), Oil on Masonite (1979.356) |
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The Muses on Mount Parnassus, 154243, Antonio Fantuzzi (Italian, Bolognese, active at Fontainebleau), Etching (49.97.585) |
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The Pleiades, 1885, Elihu Vedder (American), Oil on canvas (10.64.13) |
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The Rape of Ganymede, 150515, Giovanni Battista Palumba (Master IB with the Bird) (Italian, active northern Italy and Rome), Woodcut (25.2.9) |
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The Rape of Ganymede, ca. 15001505, Giulio Campagnola (Italian, Paduan), Engraving (37.3.10) |
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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[7375]) |
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The Return of Neptune, ca. 1754, John Singleton Copley (American), Oil on canvas (59.198) |
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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) |
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Two Winged Putti, ca. 174850, François Boucher (French), Black chalk, brush and gray wash, heightened with white chalk, on beige paper (60.175.1) |
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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) |
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Untitled, 1985, Mimmo Paladino (Italian), Limestone, iron, encaustic, paint (1986.8) |
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Vase, late 18th century, John Flaxman (English); Made by Josiah Wedgewood and Sons, Etruria/Staffordshire, England, Jasperware (09.194.7) |
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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) |
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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) |
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