A pendant light with a shade hangs down low over a dining room table at 2515 Longest Avenue in Louisville, Kentucky. The table and chairs are made of dark wood and the seats are upholstered. A sideboard sits against the back wall along with a table...
From Delphi. "Some scholars, however, on the basis of inscriptions detected on the base and (by one scholar) on the heroes' thighs, prefer to identify them as the Dioskouroi (Castor and Pollux)."; they are "associated with a regional...
Caption information: Damenbildnis mit Kappe, von vorn [Portrait of a Lady with a cap, from the front] / um 1917 [c. 1917]/ Bleistift [pencil] / u. l.: Nachlassstempel [lower left: estate stamp] / Nationalgalerie Prag [National Gallery, Prague].
Sculpture; Myths; Legends; Fictitious characters; Men; Heroes; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Fathers; Grandparents; Families; Children; Boys; Youth; Clothing & dress; Military uniforms; Uniforms; Hairstyles;...
"Figures in clay with Aeneas fleeing Troy holding his son Ascanius by the hand and in his arms his father Anchises, who clutches a reliquary of the Penates to his bosom; from Pompeii." (Caption, p. 153)
"Sometime around 530 BCE a young man named Kroisos died a hero's death in battle, and his grave at Anavysos, not far from Athens, was marked by a kouros statue. The inscribed base invites visitors to 'stay and mourn at the tomb of dead...
Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Upper class; Clothing & dress; Headdresses; Headgear; Snakes; Reptiles; Cobras; Power (Social sciences); Symbols; Gods; People associated with religion; Myths;...
Portrait bust. "Several statues portraying Antinous as Osiris share the same features. They represent the young Bithynian, who drowned in the Nile in 130 A.D., wearing a nemes, an Egyptian headdress made of starched cloth, decorated in front...
“Detail of the head from the monumental terracotta statue of Apollo, which was an acroterion crowning the roof of the Portonaccio Temple in Veii. This masterpiece of Etruscan sculpture from the end of the sixth century BC has been variously...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Myths; Legends; Supernatural beings; Fictitious characters; Goddesses; People associated with religion; Women; Clothing & dress; Hairstyles; Gestures
One of the Piraeus bronze statues; "The statue of the large Artemis reflects a different conception of the goddess, that of a serious young woman, in which her role as huntress is indicated only by the position of the fingers holding the bow...
