Ancient Roman Literature / Poetry

  • Essays (20)
  • Works of Art (51)
  • Perseus and the Origin of Coral
    1975.1.661
  • The Mourning of Pallas
    1996.567
  • Opera
    32.28
  • Virgil Reading the <em>Aeneid</em> to Augustus, Livia, and Octavia
    2009.423
  • Venus Giving Arms to Aeneas
    32.100.158
  • Watch
    17.190.1436
  • Ovid among the Scythians
    2008.101
  • The Challenge of the Pierides, from Ovid's Metamorphosis (Book V: 294-678)
    2007.406
  • Wilton Album, folio 10a: Priapus and Lotis
    27.78.1_26
  • The Eagle of Sestos
    32.100.378
  • Goblet
    17.190.730a,b
  • Satyrs and Nymphs
    2007.174
  • Diana and Actaeon (Diana Surprised in Her Bath)
    1975.1.162
  • Vita et Fabulae
    31.62.9
  • Apulegio volgare, diuiso in undeci libri, novamente stampato & in molti lochi aggiontoui che nella prima impressione gli manchaua, & de molte più figure adornato
    56.608.1
  • Clytie
    11.68.1
  • Apollo, Marsyas, and the Judgment of Midas
    41.1.210
  • Methamorphoseos vulgare
    22.16
  • Cupid with the Arms of Mars
    49.97.479
  • Venus and Adonis
    53.522.28
  • Zeus abducting Ganymede, horses, dogs and other figures below, set within a landscape
    25.2.9
  • Jupiter tumbling from a horse-drawn carriage at right, Ganymede in the form of an eagle carries a woman in the upper centre, below Venus in he cnetre flanked at the left by the three Graces
    49.97.328
  • Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpina
    45.78.123
  • Orpheus and Eurydice
    56.581.12
  • Hercules defeating the river god Acheolus in the form of a bull, with three women to his left holding cornucopias, from a series of six engravings of Herculean Subjects
    49.50.208
  • The Dream of Aeneas
    17.50.17.85
  • Fall of the Giants
    49.95.8
  • Apollo standing at left shooting a python with an arrow, above to the left are the muses and at right on a cloud Cupid approaching Apollo, from the 'Story of Apollo and Daphne'
    49.97.323
  • Minerva and the Muses
    27.78.2_99
  • Fall of the Giants
    24.63.1829
  • The Fall of Phaeton
    1992.376
  • The Fall of Phaeton, from the series Ovid's Metamorphoses
    49.97.662
  • Vertumnus and Pomona
    60.176.2
  • Cupid and Psyche
    05.46
  • Self-Portrait
    21.105
  • The Dream of Aeneas
    65.118
  • Study for a Triton (recto); Anatomical Studies (?) (verso)
    1973.265
  • Orpheus and Eurydice
    17.37.170
  • Omnia vincit Amor
    17.3.1853
  • Venus and Adonis
    37.162
  • The Trojan Women Setting Fire to Their Fleet
    55.119
  • Midas Washing at the Source of the Pactolus
    71.56
  • The Golden Age
    1993.333
  • Venus and Adonis
    49.7.16
  • Aglauros’s Vision of the Bridal Chamber of Herse, from the Story of Mercury and Herse
    41.190.135
  • The Dirty Bride or The Wedding of Mopsus and Nisa
    32.63
  • Lucretia
    1997.153
  • Diana and Actaeon
    1997.93
  • The Triumph of Fame
    1998.205
  • Armorial Plate (tondino): The story of King Midas
    1975.1.1019
  • Plate (piatto): The story of Aeneas
    1975.1.1131
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