Category Archives: Ancient Greece & Rome
Joseph Wright of Derby
“Lake Nemi, Sunset”
(English, 1734–1797) oil on wood panel, c.1790
Leochares of Athens
“Apollo Belvedere”
(Greek, 5th Century B.C.) marble sculpture-Roman copy of bronze original
Hellenistic-Greece c. 320 B.C.
Hagesandros, Athenedoros, and Polydoros of Rhodes
“Laocoön”
(Greek, c. 1st cent. B.C.) marble sculpture, Hellenistic-Greece, 170-150 B.C.
Apollonius of Athens
“Belvedere Torso”
(Greek, c. 1st cent. B.C.) marble sculpture, Hellenistic-Greece
Artist unknown, Pompeii
“Aphrodite Anadyomene”
(Italian artist, 1st century AD) fresco from Pompeii, Casa di Venus, c. 79 CE
copy possibly based on Apelles painting of ‘Campaspe’