Classical Reliefs and Sculptures

Reliefs and sculptures featuring mythological and historical scenes, showcasing figures in dynamic poses and intricate details in stone.

Europe, Greece. Apollo on a tripod, Leto and Artemis. Found Athens 5th cent BC

Votive relief dedicated by Xenokrateia to the river-God Kephisos. Detail. 410 BC. Pentelic marble. From the Sanctuary of Echelidai at New Phaleron (Attica). National Archaeologic Museum. Athens, Greece.

Altar dedicated to the Roman Imperial cult, 1st century. Artist: Unknown

Relief from alabaster urn depicting Aegisthus and Clytemnestra being murdered

Italy, Rome, Lazio, Capitoline Museum, Palazzo dei Conservatori, marble bas-relief Marcus Aurelius, submition of the Germans, A.D. 180

Roman Art. Italy. Relief of a Roman tombstone. Church of St. Vital. Ravenna.

Marble sarcophagus with relief depicting legend of Triptolemus, detail of musician at banquet

Payava Tomb. 375-362 BC. Limestone. Man placing a wreath on a head of a young athlete. Lycia, Turkey. British Museum. London.

Italy. Pisa. Camposanto. Roman sarcophagus. Scenes of hunding. Front panel. Hunting emperor. Marble. 310-320 CE.

Roman era. Sarcophagus of a child. Marble. 3rd cent. AD. From Appian Way. Rome. Vatican Museums. Pio-Clementine Museum. Octogonal Court.

Europe, Greece. Apollo on a tripod, Leto and Artemis. Found Athens 5th cent BC

Sacrifice to the God Mars. Citizens and soldiers of the Republican Period. 100 BC. Domitius Amenobarbus. Roman relief. Italy.

Marble Relief Depicting the Death Meleager 102 A.D.

Close up of sarcophagus with myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus, Roman civilization, late 2nd century a.d.

(Detail) from the Apotheosis of Homer, 3rd-century BC, marble relief, by Archelaus of Prieneis. The Apotheosis was a common scene in classical and neo-classical art, showing the poet Homer's elevation to divine status. Homer was the subject of a number of formal hero cults in classical antiquity.

Roman civilization, relief of theatre scene from comedy 'Andria', by Publius Terentius Afer

Marble relief depicting Pluto and Persephone

Frieze of the Parthenon dated 432 BC

Family sacrifice of animals at an altar. Greek Classical relief GREECE.

Relief. Myth of god Mithras. The votive offfer of a cashier. Nesca, Aequiculum. End 2nd c.AD. Italy. Natinal Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.

Italy. Pisa. Camposanto. Roman sarcophagus. Prisoners before man armed with sword. Ca.125.

Detail of a capital sculpture in Saint George's abbey chapter house (12th century) . Saint Martin de Boscherville. France.

Stele with agreement between Athenians and Samians. Athena and Hera, 403 BC. Ancient Greek relief carving.

The Bassae Frieze comprises a series of relief marble sculptures from the Temple of Apollo Epikourios at Bassae, Greece. It was discovered in 1811 by Carl Haller and Charles Cockerell. From the style of the frieze it belongs to the High Classical period, probably carved around 400 BC.

The Pergamum Museum, Berlin. The museum is subdivided into the antiquity collection, the Middle East Museum and the museum of Islamic art. The museum is visited every year by 1,135,000 people, making it the most visited art museum in Germany.

Plutei of Trajan. Stone balustrades built by emperor Trajan. 103 AD. Relief detail. Curia Julia. Roman Forum. Rome. Italy.

Roman sarcophagus. Dionysiac ceremonial procession. Mable. 160-180 AD. Tomb on via Aurelia Antica, Rome. National Roman Museum (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.

Campania Napoli Naples S. Lorenzo Maggiore68. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Sculpture, architecture, architectural sculpture (including Roman spolia) 13-14th century Chapter house; sarcophagi, gravestones; wall painting. Fragment of mosaic; sculptural fragments in the Sala Capitolare. Post-medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, ceiling painting fresco cycle; prints depicting Venice c. 1845 (4), sculpture; life-size creche figures dressed in original Neapolitan costume Church restored in 1882, 1926, 1944; excavations under the transept undertaken between 1958-1962, and in the cloister in 1976, have revealed remains of a Roman macellum (market), street, and the paleochristian basilica of the 6th c. AD. Antiquities: Pottery: black-glazed, archaic banded, domestic wares, bucchero; architectural terracottas, statuettes, lamps, sculpture fragments Object Notes: 3 color negatives with no prints at the end. General Notes: Most objects/paintings/frescoes unidentified. Three batches

Roman Sarkophark, Apollo and Artemis kill children of Niobe, Glyptothek, Koenigsplatz, Munich, Upper Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Relief depicting Security and Harmony. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA

Roman sarcophagus. The Calydonian boart hunt. Front panel. Marble. 2nd century AD. Capitoline Museums. Rome. Italy.

SARCOFAGO DE HELLIN, PRECEDENTE DE ALBACETE. DEPOSITO: ACADEMIA DE LA HISTORIA.

The Pergamum Museum, Berlin. The museum is subdivided into the antiquity collection, the Middle East Museum and the museum of Islamic art. The museum is visited every year by 1,135,000 people, making it the most visited art museum in Germany.

Artus Quellinus (I), 1651

Sarcophagus with Dionysiac ceremonial procession on the front and on the sides. 160-180 AD. Rome. National Roman Museum. Baths of Diocletian. Rome. Italy.

Close up of sarcophagus with retinue of sea-deities, Roman civilization, 2nd century a.d.

Frieze of the Mausoleum. Dated 350 BC

Benevento, Campania, Italy: the Roman Arco di Traiano, historic monument with sculptures, at morning

(Detail) showing a sacrifice, from the Ara Pacis Augustae (Altar of Augustan Peace; commonly shortened to Ara Pacis) in Rome dedicated to Pax, the Roman goddess of Peace. The monument was commissioned by the Roman Senate on July 4, 13 BC to honour the return of Augustus to Rome

Greek civilization, pentelic marble frieze of Parthenon by Phidias, bas-relief depicting procession of people bearing amphoras, circa 445-438 BC

Roman art. Sarcophagus panel depicting the Fall of Phaeton. 2nd century AD. Marble. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Columned sarcophagus. Euthios and Pyrrhon (Asian Archon). Roman period. 3rd cent. Laodicea. Private live. Hierapolis Museum. Turkey.

Votive relief to Kephisos. From New Phaleron, c 400 BC. The relief was dedicated to the river god Kephisos by a woman called Xenokrateia. Apollo sits on his tripod at the left and other unidentified gods stand in decorous poses. Xenokrateia presents her little son to Kephisos.

Flight into Egypt, episode from Jesus' life sculpted on the marble baptismal font of the Church of San Giovanni in Fonte, Verona, Veneto, Italy, 12th century.

Italy, Tuscany, Florence, Museo dell'Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore. Detail. The puttos on the left side of the Choir dance and play a wind instrument.

Tomb relief, found in Acia Triada , Antiquities, Bas-reliefs, Tombs & sepulchral monuments. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Greek Art. Greece. Parthenon (447-438 b.C). Fragment of the North frieze XII depicting a carriage suddenly pulled by the driver who, tightening the reins (missing) uses his body to counteract the thrust of the horses. At right, an infantryman with one foot on a rock and left a marshal pointing to the car behind. British Museum. London. England. UK.

Italy. Pisa. Camposanto. Roman sarcophagus. Fragment. Scene of hunting. Imperial period.

Perseus and Andromeda. Relief. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

Italy. Rome. Ara Pacis Augustae. Altar dedicated to Pax. 13-9 BC. Processional frieze. Member of a college with priestly duties.

Roman era. Relief with cupids riding bulls from the Temple of Venus Genetrix in the Forum of Caesar, Rome. Early 2nd century AD. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.

856, frieze of the Parthenon Poseidon, Dionysis, & Demeter. A. M. Athens , Friezes Ornamental bands, Bas-reliefs, Antiquities, Gods, Goddesses, Parthenon Athens, Greece, Poseidon Greek deity, Apollo Deity, Artemis Greek deity. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Parthenon. East side. 447-432BC. Greek Classical period. Scene form a processionof sacrificial victims. Young cow and herdsmen. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.

Marble sarcophagus in Antalya museum, Turkey

Relief depicting seated Poseidon and Apollo, from Pentelic marble east frieze of Parthenon

Sarcophagus of the Muses, from the surroundings of Rome, Italy, detail with Muses: Erato, Urania, Melpomene, circa 150 B.C.

SARCOFAGO DE DIONISOS Y ARIADNA - SIGLO III/IV DC. Location: MUSEO DEL LOUVRE-ESCULTURAS. France.

Italy, Tuscany, Florence, Bronze Doors With Relief Sculptures By Lorenzo Ghiberti Florence Baptistry Piazza Del Duomo.

Detail of the Last Judgment depicted on the tympanum of the Vezelay Basilica, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Vezelay, Yonne, Burgundy, France, Europe

Roman art. Society. Slave washing feet woman, before wedding ceremony. Relief. 2nd century. National Roman Museum. Palazzo Altemps. Rome. Italy.

Sarcophagus with drunken Hercules joining Dionysus in procession. C. 200 AD. Marble. Roman artwork. Naples Archaeological Museum.

Sarcophagus Detail: Putti Playing Music Artist Unknown Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Hades receiving a soul conducted by Hermes , Antiquities, Sculpture, Gods, Hermes Greek deity, Hades Greek deity. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Detail of battle, Sarcophagus of Portonaccio, Palazzo Massimo, National Museum of Rome, Italy

Presentation of Jesus at the temple, detail from Scenes from the life of Christ, Stories from the New Testament, bas-reliefs by Lorenzo Maitani (before 1275-1330), third pillar, facade of Orvieto cathedral, Umbria, Italy, 13th-14th century.

Close-up of sculptures on a wall

Front of sarcophagus lid with banquet scene. Second half of the 2nd century AD. Docimium marble from Rome. Musei Reali. Archaelogical Museum. Turin.

Scene of the fall of Troy, sarcophagus, marble, 2nd century A. C. Palazzo Duccale, royal palace, Castle San Giorgio, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy, Mantua, Lombardy, Italy, Europe

Claudi Perret / Flagellation of Saint Eulalia, Barcelona Cathedral, 1619-1621.

Early Christian. Roman sarcophagus of Marcus Claudianus (330-335 AD) depecting scenes of the Old and New Testamet. Via della Lungara next S. Giacomo, Rome. National Museum of Rome. Massim Palace. Rome. Italy.

Ancient Greece. Reliefs on a panel depicting two different scenes: dispute between Apollo and Heracles over the possession of the prophetic Delphic tripod, and next to it, unrelated to the preceding scene, a priest and a priestess in a ritual attitude. Marble. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. Greece.

Roman Art. Italy. Ara Pacis Augustae. Processional frieze. Detail. Relief. Original North side. Dated 13th century BC. Museum of the Ara Pacis. Rome. Italy.

Europe, Italy, Campania, Naples, National Archaeological Museum

Italy. Rome. Arch of Septimius Severus. Commemorate the Parthian victories of Emperor Septimius Severus. Relief. Roman soldier leading captive barbarian (Parthian). 203 AD. Roman Forum.

Jewish Seasons sarcophagus. Two standing Victories, flanked by a figure personifying Autumn holding a clypeus with Menorah. Rome. National Roman Museum. (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.

Roman frieze showing Senators. ITALY.

Poseidon, Apollo, and Artemis. Parthenon frieze. Ca. 445 BC. Marble, (Acropolis Museum)

Detail from the Great Frieze of the Pergamon Altar, 180-159 BC. Artist: Unknown

Facing brick with representation of soldiers next to a tent camp. A facing brick with soldiers at any tents along with cartouche inv. Nr. BK-AM-77-B. Coming from the old soldiers Gasthuis in Amsterdam. Again polychromed under Schmidt degener.

Roman Art. Marble sarcophagus with the Triumph of Dionysos and the Seasons. Ca. 260-270. Late Imperial, Gallienic. Probably comes from Rome. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.

Relief dedicated to Several Deities. Piraeus, Greece. C. 420 BC. Marble. Greek workshop. NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Reliefs of water nymphs from the Fontaine des Innocents in Paris, Cast Courts, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

Relief depicting procession of priests and court, on Ara Pacis Augustae, altar built between 13 and 9 B.C.

Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. North frieze. The three Moirai, goddesses of fate, kill the Giants Agrios and Thoas with bronze clubs. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Architectural relief detail from the entrance/courtyard to the Capitolini museums, in Rome, Italy. The museums themselves are contained within 3 palazzi as per designs by Michelangelo Buonarroti in 1536, they were then built over a 400 year period.

The procession of girls continues with five female figures wearing chitons or peploi with himatia and holding philai, except for the first who carries an incense burner

Columned sarcophagus. Euthios and Pyrrhon (Asian Archon). Roman period. 3rd cent. Laodicea. Private live. Hierapolis Museum. Turkey.

Frise du Parthenon; Dimitrios Constantin (Greek, active 1858 - 1860s); 1860s; Albumen silver print

Roman art. Front panel of the sarcophagus adorned with a relief. Eros playing musicals instruments. Vatican Museums.

Distribution from Paradise, Milan Cathedral in white marble, Lombardy, Italy, Milan, Lombardy, Italy, Europe

Relief representing Marcus Aurelius sacrificing before temple of Jupiter on Capitol, 176-180 A.D.

Detail from Alexander Sarcophagus, pentelic marble, from royal necropolis of Sidon or Lebanon (325-311 BC) in the Archaeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

Front panel of roman marble sarcophagus with myth of Selene and Endymion, 3rd century, A.D., Doria Pamphilj Gallery, Rome, Italy, Europe

Close up of sarcophagus with myth of Selene and Endimyon, Roman civilization, late 2nd century a.d.

Ara Pacis (Altar of Augustan Peace), Rome, consecrated in 9 BC. Cattle being led to sacrifice. Religion Ancient Roman

Greek civilization, relief depicting three Muses, attributed to School of Praxiteles, from Mantineia, Greece

Chiaramonti Museum in The Vatican Museum, Vatican city, Rome, Italy.

Judith with the head of Holofernes, detail on the Leibnizhaus building in Hanover, Lower Saxony, Germany, Europe

Roman sarcophagus. Early Christian. 4th c. Detail. Jesus healing blind man. Vatican Museums. Vatican City State.

Relief with centaur and nymph. Marble. 1st century AD. Rome. National Roman Museum. Baths of Diocletian. Rome. Italy.

Reliefs on the facade of Saint Pierre de Chaillot catholic church, Paris, France.

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