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A bronze wolf which would have decorated the lengthwise beams on a Roman ship. The wolf was made using the lost-wax technique and dates to between 37 and 41 CE. The ring had no function other than decorative, used on occasions to hang garlands. (Palazzo Massimo, Rome)

[michael-svetbird]

: • ARMENIA [said], Head, Closeup: Detail of one of the [3] figures representing "Provinces of the Roman Empire, and Trophies" exhibited in Museo Archeologico di Napoli, Part of the "Hadrianeum Reliefs", a "decorative programme of the complex known as the Hadrianeum, Rome, the temple dedicated in the Campus Martius to the deified Hadrian by Antoninus Pius". [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_of_Hadrian] Marble Rome, 145 AD. . Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli | MANN Ground Fl. | Sala 1 @museoarcheologiconapoli https://mann-napoli.it/en/home-english . MANN | Phs©MSP | 10|22 6300X4200 600 I.& II. The photographed object is the collection item of MANN and subject to copyrights. Description txt ©MANN [no commercial use | sorry for the watermarks] . 📸 Part of the "MANN.Selected" MSP Online Photo-gallery: . 👉 D-ART: https://www.deviantart.com/svetbird1234/gallery/76957935/mann-selected . 👉 FB | Album: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1329554957413078&type=3 . . #naples #napoli #mann #archaeologicalmuseum #museoarcheologico #ancientsculpture #ancientart #sculpture #romansculpture #hadrianeum #hadrian #relief #ancientrome #roman #armenia #ancientworld #antiquity #arthistory #archaeology #museology #ancient #archaeologyart #culture #heritage #artgallery #photogallery #sculpturephotography #archaeologyphotography #museumphotography #michaelsvetbird ©msp @michael_svetbird 10|22 mann @museoarcheologiconapoli (at Museo archeologico nazionale di Napoli) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpkHcS7IWwm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[theunabashedepicurean]

The post holiday blues have truly set in. Words cannot begin to describe how sad I am to be returning home after two of the most magical weeks away in Italy. It is a time I will look back on fondly with memories that I shall cherish forever. Before travelling to southern Italy, I spent my first week in Rome touring all my favourite galleries and museums. One of my most incredibles experiences was visiting the Vatican Museum, which was filled with the most incredible antiquities and art. It was surreal to see these jewels in front of me, rather than as photographs in a book. Not only did I relish Rome’s cultural treats, but I treasured its magnificent people, history, food, architecture and the Roman way of life. One of my long term goals is to move permanently to Italy, but until that dream becomes a reality, I shall be visiting this beautiful country as much as I can. ________________________________________________ #rome #italy #roma #vaticancity #vatican #vaticanmuseum #sculpture #antiquity #antiquities #art #eternalcity #museivaticani #travel #museum #romansculpture #renaissance #renaissanceart #michelangelo #raphael #bernini #gallery #interior #decoration #galleryofmaps #religiousart #artworks #historical #sistinechapel #catholicchurch #borgiaapartments (at Vatican Museums - Musei Vaticani) https://www.instagram.com/p/CfB9Kseoc1i/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[gustave300]

Made another polymer clay figure inspired by this little bronze dog found in Lydney England its a part of a Ramona-Celtic dog cult temple. I love this statue since I saw it on an episode of time team. It’s just amazing to think a little dog figure from almost 2000 years old can portray a dog so life like! #britishhistory #romansculpture #celtic #dogs #art #myart #polymerclay #artistsoninstagram #archeology #replica (at Seaford, New York) https://www.instagram.com/p/CU5vhfivm9u/?utm_medium=tumblr

[m0nsturr]

Doodle of the day! Inspired by Roman/Greek sculptures and Centaurs 🐎 #Mythology #Centaurs #greeksculpture #romansculpture #Artappreciation #Art #traditionalart #hooves #malefigure (at GTCC Jamestown campus)

[kirmizikadin]

Müze enfesti. İçimde hep garip bi' sızı ama yine de bi' gurur ha bir de tüm bu harika eserlerin emin ellerde olduğunu bilmenin iç rahatlığı vardı. Bazen "Ama... Bunlar hep bizimdi..." derken; bazen : "Sanki bizde kalsa böyle sergileyebilir miydik? Belko de 'Gâvur'un taşı' der, yere çalardık." dedim. Müzeden en içimin gittiği, eve götürüp saklamak istediğim parçayı önce paylaşıyorum! "Keşke benim olsan minik!" #knabemitfuchgans #römischekopienachhellenistischembronzeroriginal #ephesosmuseumvienna #ephesos #vienna #dieskultur #römischekopie #archaeology #sculpturelove #Romansculpture #instaart #instamuseum (at Ephesos Museum)

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Laocoön: The Suffering of a Trojan Priest & Its Afterlife

The sculpture group of Laocoön and His Sons, on display in the Vatican since its rediscovery in 1506, depicts the suffering of the Trojan prince and priest Laocoön (brother of Anchises) and his young sons Antiphantes and Thymbraeus and is one of the most famous and fascinating statues of antiquity. In his Natural History, Pliny the Elder states that the Laocoön, created by the eminent Rhodian sculptors Hagesander, Polydorus, and Athenodorus, “is a work of art to be preferred to any other painting or statuary” (36.37). Among art historians, the sculptural group has received near-universal acclaim ever since its rediscovery under questionable circumstances in 1506.

Is the statue famously shown since its discovery in the newly designed Belvedere Garden at the Vatican Palace actually the ancient sculpture mentioned by Pliny, or rather a clever Renaissance forgery? If the latter, who may have contrived this masterful deception? If the former, is it an original, or a marble copy of a Hellenistic bronze made for a Roman patron?

Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts

In the most famous version of the story, as told by Virgil (70-19 BCE) in his Aeneid, Laocoön had warned his fellow citizens against the Greeks “even if they bear gifts,” and had tried to expose the true nature of the wooden horse by striking it with a spear (the wooden horse in question, of course, being the notorious “Trojan Horse”, left by the Greek forces on the coast so as to provide access into the city to the troops hidden inside the construction). When later two serpents emerged from the sea to kill the priest and his sons, the Trojans interpreted their horrific deaths as an act of divine retribution and promptly decided to move the wooden horse into the city, believing the contraption to be an offering to Minerva (Athena).

According to Arctinus of Miletus, the earliest tradition of the tragedy (surviving only through later citations), Apollo had sent the two serpents to kill Laocoön and only one of his sons; while the later author Quintus of Smyrna maintains that the serpents killed both sons but spared the father.

Servius, another late authority (c. 400 CE), tells us how Laocoön managed to incur the wrath of Apollo by sleeping with his wife before the cult statue in the god's temple. An even later source, the Byzantine scholar Tzetzes, adds that the scene of Laocoön's death took place in the very temple of the Thymbraean Apollo – appropriately setting the punishment at the scene of the crime.

The 5th-century BCE Greek playwright Sophocles produced a tragedy on the subject, of which only a few fragments survive in later citations. Apart from the sources mentioned above, Hellenistic poets Apollodorus and Euphorion, the historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus, the Roman novelist Petronius, the Latin fables attributed to Hyginus, and a few other fragments, all provide various details of the tragic story.

Despite this appearance in ancient literature from the post-Homeric to Byzantine traditions, artistic representations of Laocoön's suffering are few and far between. Depictions appear in some Greek vase paintings (5th to 4th centuries BCE) and in two frescoes at Pompeii (c. 25-75 CE). The marble statue group of Laocoön and His Sons, therefore remains the most exceptional portrayal of only a handful of ancient works illustrating the suffering of Laocoön.

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Constantine I Colossus

The head, hand and sphere (symbol of power) from the colossal bronze statue of Constantine I, 4th century CE. The head alone is 1.77 m high. (Capitoline Museums, Rome).

Image by Mark Cartwright