Works of Art (38)
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The Angel of Death and the Sculptor from the Milmore Memorial, 1889–93; this carving, 1926, Daniel Chester French (American), Marble (26.120) |
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Asiatic garland sarcophagus, Mid-Imperial, Severan period, 200–225 A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (70.1) |
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Blind Homer Led by the Genius of Poetry, 1851, Edward Sheffield Bartholomew (American), Marble (1996.74) |
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Cinerary chest with lid, Imperial, Flavian or Trajanic, ca. 90–110 A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (27.122.2a,b) |
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Cinerary urn, Julio-Claudian, first half of 1st century A.D.,
Roman; said to have been excavated from a tomb near Anagni,
Marble (2002.297, 2002.568) |
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Descent from the Cross, ca. 1550–60, School of Jean Goujon (French), Marble (29.56) |
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Disk with a herm of Dionysos in relief, Early Imperial, third quarter of 1st century A.D.,
Roman,
Marble, pigment (26.60.27) |
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Endymion sarcophagus, Mid-Imperial, Severan, early 3rd century A.D.,
Roman, Marble (47.100.4) |
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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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Fragment of a sarcophagus with a seated figure, ca. 250 A.D.,
Roman; Probably northern Asia Minor,
Marble (18.108) |
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Fragment of an inscription, Classical, ca. 425–424 B.C.,
Greek, Attic,
Marble (26.60.5) |
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Funerary altar of Cominia Tyche, Flavian or Trajanic, ca. 90–100 A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (38.27) |
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Funerary altar, 14–68; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (25.78.29) |
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Grave stele of a little girl, ca. 450–440 B.C., Greek, Parian marble (27.45) |
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Grave stele of a youth and a little girl, ca. 530 B.C.; Archaic, Greek, Attic, Parian marble (11.185a-c,f,g) |
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Grave stele with a family group, ca. 360 B.C.; Classical, Greek, Attic, Pentelic marble (11.100.2) |
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Kalyx krater with reliefs of maidens and dancing maenads, 1st century A.D.; Julio-Claudian, Roman, Marble (23.184) |
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Lid of a funerary altar, late 1st century B.C.,
Roman,
Marble (1997.271) |
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Linga with one face (Ekamukhalinga), Shahi period, 9th century, Afghanistan, Marble (1980.415) |
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Lion felling a bull, from a marble pediment, 525–500 B.C., Greek, Attic, Parian marble (42.11.35) |
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Madonna and Child with Angels, Relief, ca. 1455–60, Antonio Rossellino (Italian, Florentine), Made in Florence, Italy, Marble, gilding on halo and dress (14.40.675) |
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Marble sarcophagus with garlands and the myth of Theseus and Ariadne, ca. 130–150 A.D.,
Roman, Hadrianic or early Antonine,
Marble, Luni and Pentelic (90.12a,b) |
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Mourning Victory from the Melvin Memorial, 1906–8; this carving, 1912–15, Daniel Chester French (American), Marble (15.75) |
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Mrs. Stanford White (Bessie Springs Smith), 1884; this carving, by 1888, Augustus Saint-Gaudens (American), Marble (1976.388) |
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Nessus Abducting Deianira, modeled in 1814,
Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish),
Marble (2004.174) |
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Panel with a Griffin, 1250–1300, Byzantine; Possibly from Greece or the Balkans, Marble (2000.81) |
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Relief fragment with gladiators, Imperial, 1st–3rd century A.D.,
Roman; recorded ca. 1880 in the Vigna Aquari in Rome,
Marble (57.11.7) |
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Relief fragment, Imperial, 1st–2nd century A.D.,
Roman; found at Sardis,
Marble (26.199.63) |
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Relief of a dancing maenad, ca. 27 B.C.–14 A.D.; Augustan, Roman copy of a Greek relief attributed to Kallimachos, ca. 425–400 B.C., Pentelic marble (35.11.3) |
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Relief portrait of the emperor Lucius Verus, ca. 166–170; Antonine, Roman, Marble (13.227.1) |
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Relief with an archaistic Hermes, 1st century A.D., Roman, Marble (1991.11.8) |
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Relief with Saint Peter Martyr and Three Donors, ca. 1340, Giovanni di Balduccio (Italian, Tuscan, Bolognese, Milanese), Marble (2001.221) |
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Sarcophagus lid (kline), Mid-Imperial, Severan, 220 A.D.,
Roman, Marble (1993.11.1) |
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Sarcophagus with a Greek physician, early 300s,
Roman; Ostia, Italy, Marble (48.76.1) |
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Sarcophagus with Scenes from the Lives of Saint Peter and Christ, early 300s (with modern restoration), Roman, Marble (1991.366) |
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Sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens, Late Imperial, Gallienic, third quarter of 3rd century A.D.,
Roman; in the Villa Nero, Rome, about 1640; later, in the Giardino Torrigiani, Florence,
Pentelic marble (10.104) |
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Strigilated sarcophagus, Late Severan, 220 A.D.,
Roman,
Marble (2005.258) |
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Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons Sarcophagus, ca. 260–270,
Roman,
Marble (55.11.5) |
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Thematic Essays (15)
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