Game Piece with Hercules Feeding Diomedes to His Horses

    Ivory game piece showing Heracles feeding Diomedes to his horses. Made in Cologne, Germany. Metropolitan Museum of Art 16.106.

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    ca. 1150 CE
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    diameter 2 3/4 x 13/16 in. (7 x 2 cm)
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    Metropolitan Museum of Art

    Cadmus fetching water

      Attic red-figure calyx krater depicting Cadmus fetching water from a spring guarded by a snake, the son of Ares. The seated woman may represent the nymph associated with the spring. Background vegetation and the rock upon which she is seated are rendered by faintly visible incised lines

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      ca. 450 BCE
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      H. 18 in. (45.7 cm), diameter of mouth 17 5/8 in. (44.7 cm)
      Inscription
      Inscribed: "Eualkos is fair" and "Alones [misspelled] is fair"
      Location
      Metropolitan Museum of Art

      An Eruption of Vesuvius

        Dahl visited Vesuvius just before Christmas 1820 to witness its eruptions at close-hand. He immediately made an oil sketch (Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen) that served as the basis for the present work, completed four years later for Prince Christian Frederik, later King Christian VIII of Denmark. Vesuvius had attracted artists and Grand Tourists alike since the rediscovery of Pompeii in the mid-eighteenth century, offering a vision of the Sublime that served as a counterpoint to the austerity of Neoclassicism. (Metropolitan Museum of Art),

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        Title: An Eruption of Vesuvius
        Artist: Johan Christian Dahl (Norwegian, Bergen 1788–1857 Dresden)
        Date: 1824
        Medium: Oil on canvas
        Dimensions: 37 x 54 3/4 in. (94 x 139.1 cm)
        Classification: Paintings
        Credit Line: Gift of Christen Sveaas, in celebration of the Museum's 150th Anniversary, 2019
        Object Number: 2019.167.1

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        1824
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        37 x 54 3/4 in. (94 x 139.1 cm)
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        Metropolitan Museum of Art

        Bronze statuette of Mercury

          He stands with his weight resting on the right leg, with the left foot drawn back.

          Metadata from the Met website:

          Title: Bronze statuette of Mercury

          Period: Early Imperial

          Date: 1st century CE

          Culture: Roman

          Medium: Bronze

          Dimensions: Overall: 6 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. (15.7 x 6.9 x 4.8 cm)

          Classification: Bronzes

          Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1906

          Object Number: 06.1057

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          1st century AD
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          6 3/16 x 2 3/4 x 1 7/8 in. (15.7 x 6.9 x 4.8 cm)
          Location
          Metropolitan Museum of Art

          Poetry, a woman with a laurel crown

            Title: Poetry, a woman with a laurel crown

            Artist: Raphael Morghen (Italian, Naples 1758–1833 Florence)

            Artist: Intermediary draftsman Pietro Ermini (Italian, Arezzo 1774–1850 Arezzo)

            Artist: After Carlo Dolci (Italian, Florence 1616–1687 Florence)

            Printer: Luigi Bardi (Italian, active Florence, 1814–43)

            Date: 1827

            Medium: Engraving; fourth state of five

            Dimensions: Plate: 12 11/16 × 8 15/16 in. (32.3 × 22.7 cm)
            Sheet: 21 11/16 × 15 5/16 in. (55.1 × 38.9 cm)

            Classification: Prints

            Credit Line: Gift of Harry Shaw Newman, 1941

            Accession Number: 41.97.81

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            1827

            Striding Pan

              The satyr stands upright and majestically strides forward. His powerfully muscled torso closely resembles Riccio’s heroic nudes, like the beggar in the Saint Martin relief in this gallery. He is most probably Pan, the satyr deity who reigns over the material world. Designed to stand on a scholar’s desk, he carried the attributes of a flaming conch-shell lamp and an ink-filled vase, perhaps symbolizing Pan’s dominion over the elements. Such pairings of figure and function are rare in Riccio’s work, but the extraordinary balance of the topheavy figure on just two small hooves is typical of Riccio’s technical mastery.

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              1530–1539

              Sylvanus from The Rural Gods

                This engraving is from a set of six oval-shaped prints that depict Pastoral Gods. It was published by Hieronymus Cock (ca. 1510–1570) whose name is inscribed on the rock at the right. Cock began publishing in Antwerp in 1548, and his firm became the most important one outside Italy. He made a few of the plates himself, but most were commissioned from designers and engravers. The author of this composition, Frans Floris, designed many prints for Cock. Cort may also have been an apprentice within Cock’s establishment. The series of Pastoral Gods were made in Antwerp in 1565, the year Cort left for Italy. (Metropolitan Museum)

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                1565

                Two satyrs and a faun seated to right watching two child satyrs

                  Two satyrs and a faun seated to right watching two child satyrs and another satyr with an child on his shoulders dance to left, a round composition, from 'Six animal subjects' (Six sujets d'animaux). 

                  Stefano della Bella (Italian, Florence 1610–1664 Florence)

                  Etching

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                  ca. 1643–48