Emperor Claudius as Ares, god of war (41-54 AD) |
Torso di Giovane con testa dell'Hermes di Policleto |
Roman copy of a 5th C. AD Hermes by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos |
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Hercules, Vatican Museum |
Cortile ottagonale del Belvedere, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum |
Octagonal Courtyard, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum |
Apollo Belvedere (Pythian Apollo) |
The Apollo Belvedere was found in 1489 |
The god Apollo has just loosed an arrow at his enemy, the Python of Delphi |
Marble copy of a bronze original by Leochares, 350-325 BC |
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Sarcophagus with a statue of the Personification of the Tigris River |
Personification of the Tirgis River, Museo Pio-Clementino (inv 168) |
Personification of the Tirgis River, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Figure on the sarcophagus with the Personification of the Tigris River |
Laocoön Group, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum |
A Trojan priest, Laocoön had attempted to warn against the accepting the Trojan Horse |
As punishment, Laocoön and His Sons were killed by a snake sent by the gods supporting the Greeks |
"Do not trust the Horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts." Virgil's Aeneid |
Equo ne credite, Teucri Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes |
Detail of Laocoön and the head of the serpent |
Lacoön and His Sons, attributed to the Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, ca 40 BC |
A son of Laocoön struggling against the serpent |
Laocoön and his Sons was rediscovered in 1506 near Nero's Golden House |
Statue of a dog, Roman Imperial period, Pio-Clementino (inv 897) |
Statue of a dog, Roman Imperial period, Pio-Clementino (inv 897) |
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Hermes (Belvedere Antinous) Museo Pio-Clementino |
Hadrianic copy of a bronze Hermes by Praxiteles |
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Herakles (Hercules) Pio-Clementino (inv 901) |
Herakles (Hercules) Pio-Clementino (inv 901) |
Herakles (Hercules) Pio-Clementino (inv 901) |
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Venus Felix, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Venus with her son Cupid, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Detail of Venus Felix, Museo Pio-Clementino |
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Male torso, Roman (Flavian) Pio-Clementino (inv 937) |
Male torso, Roman (Flavian) Pio-Clementino (inv 937) |
Male torso, Roman (Flavian) Pio-Clementino (inv 937) |
Male torso, Roman (Flavian) Pio-Clementino (inv 937) |
The Greek boxer Kruegas by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino |
The Greek boxer Cruegas of Epidamnos by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino |
The Greek boxer Cruegas of Epidamnos by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Creugas was killed during the games at Nemea ca 400 BC by Damozenos (Damoxenos) |
Greek boxer Damoxenos of Syracuse who killed Creugas with an illegal move, also by Antonio Canova |
Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova, 1801 |
Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Hermes Ingenui, 2nd C. Roman copy of 5th C. BC - Museo Pio-Clementino |
Athena, Roman Imperial Era, Pio-Clementino |
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Ancient replica of the Apoxyomenos of Lysippos, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Apoxyomenos discovered in 1849 in Trastevere |
Apoxyomenos - "the scraper" - showing an athlete scraping the grime from his body with a strigil |
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Female-headed winged sphinx, Vatican Museum |
Museo Chiaramonti founded by Pope Pius VII Chiaramonti and contains about 1000 Roman sculptures |
Museo Chiaramonti was organized in 1807 by Antonio Canova (and can handle an upgraded presentation) |
Roman busts in the Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican Museum |
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Portrait of Gaius or Lucius Caesar (20BC-4AD) (inv 1228) |
Hercules and Telephus, Roman copy, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1314) |
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Hermes, Roman copy - Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1) |
Dionysos with a young satyr, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1375) |
Dionysos with a young satyr, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1375) |
Museo Chiaramonti |
Ganymede wearing the Phyrgian cap, Vatican Museum |
Ganymede and Zeus - Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1376) |
Γανυμήδης - Roman Imperial Era, Museo Chiaramonti |
Statue of Ganymede with markings where his fig leaf was removed, 3rd C. AD (inv 1871) |
Ganymede with Zeus in eagle-form, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1867) |
Old woman, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1392) |
Early Hellenistic Silen (center), Roman (Trajan) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1441) |
Statue of Eros Bending His Bow, ca 330 BC copy of the bronze by Lysippus |
Statue of Eros Bending His Bow, Museo Chiaramonti (inv. 1509) |
Statue of Eros Bending His Bow, Museo Chiaramonti (inv. 1509) |
Statue of the Emperor Tiberius, 1st C. AD |
Statue of the Emperor Tiberius, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1511) |
Statue of a youth, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1512) |
Statue of a youth, Roman, 3rd C. AD |
Statue of a Young Boy, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1512) |
Statue of the Emperor Claudius (41-54AD) Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1505) |
Hermes, Roman-Hadrianic, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1576) |
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Apollo, Roman (Claudius) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1765) |
Dionysos, Roman copy - Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1763) |
Youth with the head of Caracalla, Roman, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1849) |
Dionysos (Bacchus) Roman (Claudius-Nero) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1934) |
Head of Oceanus, 2nd C. AD, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1924) |
Leading Satyr, Roman (Flavian) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1951) |
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Hellenistic male torso (Satyr pouring win) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1940) |
Torso of Herakles, Roman, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 2131) |
Main with raised arm, Roman 2nd C. AD, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 2150) |
Return to the Museo Pio-Clementino after dark |
Laocoön Group, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Laocoön Group, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Detail of one of the sons of Laocoön |
Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova |
The Greek boxer Cruegas of Epidamnos by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Apollo Belvedere, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Sala degli animale, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum |
Mithras killing a steer, Roman 2nd C. AD, Pio-Clementino (inv 437) |
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Belvedere Torso, 1st. C. BC - Vatican Museum |
Belvedere Torso, Vatican Museum |
Belvedere Torso by Apollonius 1st C. BC, Museo Pio-Clementino |
Antinoüs, the lover of Emperor Hadrian, who elevated him to the god Osirantinoos after his death |
Gilded bronze statue of Hercules, 2nd C, Sala Rotonda |
Gilded bronze statue of Hercules from the Theater of Pompey, 2nd C |
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Augustus, Roman, Museo Pio-Clementino (inv 191) |
Augustus, Roman, Sala a Croce Greca |