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Dangerous Beauty: Medusa in Classical Art

At The Met Fifth Avenue
February 5, 2018–February 24, 2019

Exhibition Objects

61 Objects

Bronze ornament from a chariot pole

Date: 1st–2nd century CE Medium: Bronze, silver, copper Accession Number: 18.75

Terracotta stand

Signed by Ergotimos

Date: ca. 570 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 31.11.4

Terracotta pelike (jar)

Attributed to Polygnotos

Date: ca. 450–440 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 45.11.1

Perseus and the Sleeping Medusa

Alexander Runciman (British, Edinburgh, Scotland 1736–1785 Edinburgh)

Date: 1774 Medium: Etching Accession Number: 69.574.14

Part of the marble stele (grave marker) of Kalliades

Date: 550–525 BC Medium: Marble Accession Number: 55.11.4

Terracotta kylix: Siana cup (drinking cup)

Attributed to the C Painter

Date: ca. 575 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 01.8.6

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Attributed to the Diosphos Painter

Date: ca. 500 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 06.1070

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask)

Attributed to the Tithonos Painter

Date: ca. 480 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 27.122.6

Terracotta two-handled vase

Date: late 4th–early 3rd century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 06.1021.246a, b

Terracotta Hadra hydria (water jar)

Date: 3rd century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 90.9.67

Wall painting fragment with Gorgon mask

Date: ca. 14–68 CE Medium: Fresco Accession Number: 92.11.8

Bronze finial with the head of Medusa

Date: 1st century CE Medium: Bronze, silver Accession Number: 67.11.19

Mask

Date: late 18th–early 19th century Medium: Gilt bronze Accession Number: 07.225.510.255

Gold pendant in the form of a gorgoneion (Gorgon's face)

Date: ca. 450 BCE Medium: Gold Accession Number: 74.51.3397b

Carnelian Intaglio

Date: 3rd–1st century BCE Medium: Carnelian Accession Number: 48.12.4

Peridot ring stone

Date: ca. 1st century BCE–3rd century CE Medium: Peridot Accession Number: 81.6.120

Cameo glass disk with Medusa head

Date: 1st century CE Medium: Glass Accession Number: 17.194.11

Medusa

Date: ca. 1860–70 Medium: Onyx Accession Number: 40.20.52

Head of Medusa

Cameo by Benedetto Pistrucci (Italian, 1783–1855, active England)

Date: cameo 1840–50, mount ca. 1860 Medium: Red jasper mounted in gold with white enamel Accession Number: 2003.431

Brooch

Firm of Castellani

Date: before 1888 Medium: Glass micromosaic, gold Accession Number: 2007.299.1

Dress

Gianni Versace (Italian, founded 1978)

Date: fall/winter 1992–93 Medium: wool/silk blend, leather, metal Accession Number: 2004.65.1

Dress

Gianni Versace (Italian, founded 1978)

Date: spring/summer 1994, edition 2016 Medium: silk, metal, synthetic Accession Number: 2016.633

Terracotta antefix (roof tile)

Date: ca. 500 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 54.11.3

Antefix, head of Medusa

Date: 4th century BC Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 10.210.92

Antefix, head of Medusa

Date: 4th century BC Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 10.210.51

Bronze greave (shin guard)

Date: 4th century BCE Medium: Bronze Accession Number: 1991.171.45

Fragment of a terracotta relief

Date: ca. 600 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 42.11.33

Horse and rider

Date: early 3rd century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 74.51.1784

Perseus Triumphant

Domenico Marchetti (Italian, Rome ca. 1780–after 1844 Rome)

Date: 1813 Medium: Etching and engraving Accession Number: 1993.1040

Head of Medusa

Studio of Antonio Canova (Italian, Possagno 1757–1822 Venice)

Date: 1806–7 Medium: Plaster cast, with modern metal rod Accession Number: 67.110.2

Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup)

Signed by Nikosthenes

Date: ca. 530 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 14.136

Jacket

Gianni Versace (Italian, founded 1978)

Date: fall/winter 1992–93 Medium: leather, lamb fleece Accession Number: 1999.467.1

Limestone funerary stele (shaft) surmounted by two sphinxes

Date: last quarter of the 5th century BCE Medium: Limestone Accession Number: 74.51.2499

Terracotta stand

Date: ca. 520 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 1980.537

Bronze foot in the form of a sphinx

Date: ca. 600 BCE Medium: Bronze Accession Number: 2000.660

Terracotta Little Master cup

Date: ca. 565–550 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 03.24.31

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup with high handles)

Attributed to Class W: The Class W: The Persian Class of Head Vases

Date: late 5th century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 21.88.64

Limestone column capital

Date: late 4th–3rd century BCE Medium: Limestone Accession Number: 1995.95

Gold pendant in the form of a sphinx

Date: 5th–4th century BCE Medium: Gold Accession Number: 74.51.3382

Gold earring with a sphinx

Date: 4th–3rd century BCE Medium: Gold Accession Number: 1995.539.6

Terracotta lekythos (oil flask) in the form of a sphinx

Date: ca. 380–360 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 06.1021.180

Oedipus and the Sphinx, after Ingres

Claude-Ferdinand Gaillard (French, Paris 1834–1887 Paris)

Date: 1867 Medium: Engraving on heavy wove paper Accession Number: 2012.136.485

Terracotta statuette of a siren

Date: ca. 550–500 BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 2000.276

Terracotta tripod kothon (vessel for perfumed oil)

Attributed to the Group of the Boeotian Dancers

Date: mid-6th century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 60.11.10

Bronze mirror with a support in the form of a draped woman

Date: mid-5th century BCE Medium: Bronze Accession Number: 1972.118.78

Miniature terracotta squat lekythos (oil flask) with siren

Attributed to the Seireniske Painter

Date: mid-5th century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 41.162.123

Gold earring

Date: mid-4th century BCE Medium: Gold Accession Number: 08.258.49

Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Date: early 5th century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 57.12.5

Terracotta stemless kylix (drinking cup)

Attributed to the Asteas Workshop

Date: late 4th century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 1989.11.12

Sirens (Les Sirenes)

Raoul Dufy (French, Le Havre 1877–1953 Forcalquier)

Date: 1910 Medium: Woodcut Accession Number: 26.92.1

Lady Lilith

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (British, London 1828–1882 Birchington-on-Sea)

Date: 1867 Medium: Watercolor and gouache (bodycolor) Accession Number: 08.162.1

The Sin (Woman with Red Hair and Green Eyes)

Edvard Munch (Norwegian, Løten 1863–1944 Ekely)

Date: 1902 Medium: Lithograph printed in yellow, red and green Accession Number: 1984.1167

Gilt silver kylix

Date: late fifth century BCE Medium: Silver-gilt Accession Number: 2015.260.1

Pair of terracotta plaques with glass inlays

Date: late 4th century BCE Medium: Terracotta, glass Accession Number: 1998.210.1, .2

Terracotta askos (flask with a handle over the top)

Date: 3rd century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: 11.43

Silver stater

Date: 510–500 BCE Medium: Silver Accession Number: L.1999.19.58

Bronze applique of a Gorgon

Date: late 6th century BCE Medium: Bronze Accession Number: L.2013.63.2

Sphinx from a marble figural capital

Date: 1st–2nd century CE Medium: Marble Accession Number: L.2016.59

Terracotta shallow bowl with low foot

Date: late 4th century BCE Medium: Terracotta Accession Number: L.2016.60

Greave for the left leg

Date: 550–500 BC Medium: Bronze Accession Number: L.2017.18

Silver didrachm

Date: 490–480 BC Medium: Silver Accession Number: L.1999.19.56
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