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Pages in category "Museums of ancient Greece in the United States" The following 33 pages are in this category, out of 33 total.
Sisyphus (1548–49) by Titian, Prado Museum, Madrid, Spain. Homer describes Sisyphus in both Book VI of the Iliad and Book XI of the Odyssey. [9] [21] Ovid, the Roman poet, makes reference to Sisyphus in the story of Orpheus and Eurydice. When Orpheus descends and confronts Hades and Persephone, he sings a song so that they will grant his wish ...
Capitoline Faun, exemplar from the Capitoline Museums, c. 130 AD (inv. 739) Ruspoli Faun, Munich Glyptothek (inv. 228). The Resting Satyr or Leaning Satyr, also known as the Satyr anapauomenos (in ancient Greek ἀναπαυόμενος, from ἀναπαύω / anapaúô, to rest) is a statue type generally attributed to the ancient Greek sculptor Praxiteles.
Arlington House, The Robert E. Lee Memorial (1802–1817), Arlington National Cemetery, Virginia, US; Monument to Sir Alexander Ball, (1810), Valletta, Malta [7] Dundalk Courthouse (1813), Dundalk, Ireland; Theseus Temple (1821) in the Volksgarten in Vienna, Austria, by Pietro di Nobile; Old Royal High School (1829), Edinburgh, Scotland
In 1991, former Dallas Museum of Art assistant curator for contemporary art and KERA radio art critic Joan Davidow was hired as the full-time director of the Arlington Museum of Art. [1] [5] Under her tenure, which lasted until September 2000, she focused the museum's curated exhibitions on Texas contemporary art.
Polykleitos: The Doryphoros, the summary of the aesthetic idealism of Classicism. The sculpture of Classicism, the period immediately preceding the Hellenistic period, was built on a powerful ethical framework that had its bases in the archaic tradition of Greek society, where the ruling aristocracy had formulated for itself the ideal of arete, a set of virtues that should be cultivated for ...
In Greek mythology, the Charites (/ ˈ k ær ɪ t iː z /; Ancient Greek: Χάριτες) [a] or Graces were three or more goddesses of charm, beauty, nature, human creativity, goodwill, and fertility. [1] Hesiod names three – Aglaea ("Shining"), Euphrosyne ("Joy"), and Thalia ("Blooming") [2] [1] – and names Aglaea as the youngest and the ...
In Greek mythology, the Hecatoncheires (Ancient Greek: Ἑκατόγχειρες, romanized: Hekatóncheires, lit. 'Hundred-Handed Ones'), also called Hundred-Handers or Centimanes [1] (/ ˈ s ɛ n t ɪ m eɪ n z /; Latin: Centimani), were three monstrous giants, of enormous size and strength, each with fifty heads and one hundred arms.