Classical Sculptural Friezes

Sculptural friezes from classical antiquity depicting mythological scenes and figures, highlighting intricate detail and historical significance.

Cupid and Psyche. Ostia Antica sarcophagus. 1st c AD. ITALY.

Turkey, Istanbul, Archaeology Museum

Roman sarcophagus with the contest between The Muses and the Sirens. Severan period. 3rd C. AD. Detail Athenas, Zeus and Hera, preside the musical.

Nereid Monument. Sculptured tomb from Xanthos. Classical period Lycia. Turkey. Arbinas, in Persian dress, recieves emissaries. Upper podium frieze. 390-380 BC. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.

Italy, Rome, Capitoline Museum, Palazzo Nuovo, marble sarcophagus Myth of Selene and Endimione, beginning of 3nd century A.D.

Pergamum Altar in the Pergamum Museum in Berlin. It is a monumental construction built during the reign of King Eumenes 11 in the first half of the 2nd century BC on one of the terraces of the acropolis of the ancient city of Pergamum in Asia Minor. It is 35.64 meters wide and 33.4 meters deep. The front stairway is almost 20 meters wide. The base is decorated with a frieze in high relief showing the battle between the Giants and Olympian gods known as the Gigantomachy. In 1878 the German engineer Carl Human began official excavations on the acropolis of Pergamum. The excavation was undertaken in order to rescue the altar friezes and expose the foundation of the edifice. Later, other ancient structures on the acropolis were brought to light.

Relief depicting Liberty and Peace. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA.

Close up of sarcophagus with battle between Romans and Barbarians, Roman civilization, late 2nd century a.d.

Cupid and Psyche. Ostia Antica sarcophagus. 1st c AD. ITALY.

Alabaster urn with relief depicting Myth of Eteocles and Polynices

Sarcophagus of Pignatta. 5th cent. Christ on a throne with st. Peter and St. Paul. Saint Francesco. Ravenna. Italy.

Pentelic marble east frieze of Parthenon, bas-relief depicting Zeus and Hera with servants

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.

Grave stele. Thespian marble. Found in the outskirts of Thebes. Two figures, a bearded man with a staff on the right and a spinning () woman on the left, sit facing each other. Three more figures two men and a woman stand in the background. A very small female attendant is represented at far left. Characteristic attributes are the pomegranate and torch () held by the standing bearded man as well as the aryballos in the right hand of the beardless youth. End of the fifth century BC

Relief depicting Peace, Charity and the Defence of Virtue. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA

Apollo (r) and the killing of Niobe's children. 150 AD. Greek Classical relief GREECE.

Sculptural group of the four apostles. Gothic. Fragment. Work of Bartomeu Robio. Alabaster. Year, 1361-1362. Altarpiece. The Seu Vella of Lleida (Old Cathedral of Lleida). Diocesan and Comarcal Lleida Museum, Catalonia, Spain.

Detail from the Parthenon Frieze. Greek marble sculpture, made between 443-438 BC. The full frieze shows a narrative procession of men, women & horses.

Roman sarcophagus panel. Hades abducting Persephone. Third quarter of the 2nd century AD. Marble. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Sarcófago de Husillos, detalle.. Realizado en un taller de Roma e importado a Hispania, muestra escenas de la leyenda de Orestes. Mármol. S. II d. C. Altura: 57 cm. Longitud: 204 cm. Anchura: 66 cm. Museum: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO, MADRID, SPAIN.

The Parthenon frieze. East side. 447-432 BC. Greek Classical period. Central section of the east frieze. Zeus and Hera seated next to a standing man receiving the folded peplos from a young boy. British Museum, London, England.

USA, Rhode Island, Providence, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum, detail of Roman sarcophagus, 2nd century AD

Marble sarcophagus, Relief depicting Prometheus myth, Detail, Hermes and one of the Parcae or Fates, From Arles

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

Turkey, Bergama, Detail of the frieze from Pergamon altar representing the myth of Telephus, Telephus and Heracles

Relief depicting Hesperides

Relief depicting Babylonian Ruler Hammurabi next to Hebrew prophet Moses. On the Right of Moses is seen the figure of Austerity. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA.

Altar stone dedicated to Bacchus. Detail. Relief depicting Hercules. 1st century AD. Marble. From Rome (Italy). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Hellenistic art, 3rd century, Marble relief with scene of family meal from Cyzicus, Turkey, 3rd century b.c.

Roman Art. Marble sarcophagus with the contest between the Muses and the Sirens. The deities Athena, Zeus, and Hera, assembled at the far left, preside over a musical contest. 3rd century. Late Imperial period. Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. United States.

Relief depicting the figure of Lycurgus (c. 900 800 BC) the legendary lawgiver of Sparta. At the right of Lycurgus are Solon and a representation of the Light of Wisdom. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA.

Bartolomé Ordóñez, Martirio de Santa Eulalia, 1519. Trascoro Catedral de Barcelona.

Votive relief with Artemis before god, Kephisos or Cephisus, river god, and three nymphs

Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. Gigantomachy. West frieze. Detail. Doris and a giant. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Lazio Roma Grottaferrata Museo52. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects of the Etruscans and the Romans, as well as early Medieval, Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance and Baroque monuments. Images are organized by geographic region in Italy, then by province, city, site complex and monument.

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

India, Tamil Nadu, Mahabalipuram, UNESCO world heritage, the Mahishamardini Cave Temple, Seshasayi Vishnu Panel, a sculpture of sleeping Vishnu

Amazon sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman Period. Early 3rd century AD. Detail. Batlle between the Amazons and the Greeks. Relief. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Marble sarcophagus with relief representing musical competition between Apollo and satyr Marsyas, 290-300 a.d., detail, from Dogana di Chiarone, Tuscany region, Italy

HECATE and Giants. Roman relief, after school of Pergamum. Hecate, triple goddess of lower world, magic, ghosts and witchcraft. Offerings of honey, dogs and black lambs made to her at crossroads. Vatican. Photo. A. Lorenzin

Marble bas-relief depicting Triad of Eleusinian Mysteries with Persephone, Demeter and Triptolemus, from Eleusis

Relief of a wedding ceremony (dextrarum iunctio), sarcophagus of the Spounsals, 280-300 AD, Monumental Cemetery of Pisa (UNESCO World Heritage Site, 1987), Tuscany, Italy, Roman civilization, 3rd century.

Przeszo Przyszoci unknown

Grave Stele of Thrasynos. Unknown

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.

Bulls being driven to sacrifice, depicted in part of the Parthenon friezes at the Parthenon/Acropolis museum, Athens

Detail from the Ara Pacis (Altar of peace), 2nd century BC. Artist: Unknown

Libya, Az Zawiyah District, Sabratha, Roman Theatre, Reliefs dating back to 2nd Century

Large Sarcophagus with the Muses (Fragmentary Right Half); mid-3rd century; Thasian marble, crystalline white; 137 × 224 cm (53 15,16 × 88 3,16 in.)

Italy, Campania, Benevento, Arco di Traiano detail

Pio Clementino Museum of Roman Art, Vatican museum, Rome, Italy.

Roman sarcophagus. Detail relief. Boy holding rabbit and dove in his hands. Imperial era. Marble. National Roman Museum. Baths of Diocletian. Rome. Italy.

Relief with Dionysos and Horami; Unknown Roman workshop; 27 BC - 14 CE; The period of the Oktawian Augusta (-27-00-00-00-00-00), 1st century BC (-50-00-00--25-00-00);

Fragment of a frieze with relief depicting Eros carrying garlands. 120 - 130 AD. Marble. From unknown building of Rome. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Sarcophage des pleureuses , Antiquities, Sarcophagi, Mourners Sarcophagus Sidon, Lebanon. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Roman society. Sarcophagus. Marble. Central panel. Relief depicts a seated male teacher holding a scroll and reading to a female student. From Via Praenestina. 3r C. AD. Capitoline Museums. Rome. Italy.

Lower part of a marble relief with two goddesses 1st-2nd century A.D. Roman Adaptation of the Great Eleusinian Relief of ca. 450-425 B.C.The two goddesses are closely related to the figures of Demeter and Persephone on the Great Eleusinian Relief, a cast of which is displayed nearby. The altarlike incense burner between them must be an addition of the Roman copyist. This relief is said to have been found at Eleusis.. Lower part of a marble relief with two goddesses. Roman. 1st-2nd century A.D.. Marble, Pentelic. Imperial. Stone Sculpture

Detail of early Christian sarcophagus. Artist: Unknown

Roman Art. Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus or ÒStatue Base of Marcus AntoniusÓ, relief freize of a monumental statue group base. Sea thiasos for the wedding of Poseidon and Amphitrite, 2nd half of the 2nd century BC. (about 150 B.C.). Detail: Poseidon and Amphitrite in the bridal carriage, drawn by two Tritons playing music. (front panel). Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.

Sarcophagus depicting court scenes, in the centre, magistrate holding scroll

Bassrelief des Maestro Nicolo 12. Jahrhundert, Gruppe rechts von der Tür der Basilika San Zeno in Verona, Italien Bass-relief of Maestro Nicolo 12th century, group to the right of the door of the Basilica of St Zeno in Verona, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 21198431

Limestone funerary relief ca. 325-300 B.C. Greek, South Italian, Tarentine Tarentum (modern Taranto) was a wealthy Greek colony on the southeast coast of Italy, a pivotal location along the trade routes between Greece and Italy. During the fourth century B.C., ostentatious grave monuments in the form of small temple-like buildings decorated with painted sculpture filled the city cemetery. This relief must come from such a building. It represents a young warrior and a woman standing by an altar. Between them is a vase for pouring a libation on the altar. On the wall behind them hang a cuirass, a helmet, and a sword, presumably the arms of the dead warrior for whom they mourn. It has been suggested that the relief illustrates a scene from Greek tragedy.. Limestone funerary relief. Greek, South Italian, Tarentine. ca. 325-300 B.C.. Limestone. Hellenistic. Stone Sculpture

"A Youth Playing the Pipes 1884 Plaster with transparent brown patina by Thomas Eakins, American, 1844 - 1916"

'Sarcophagus Panel: the Fall of Phaeton'. Ancient Rome, 2nd century. Dimensions: l. 179 cm. Museum: State Hermitage, St. Petersburg.

ITALY. Rome. Capitoline Museums. Palazzo Nuovo. Sarcophagus with hunting scene. Roman art.

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.

Sarcophagus of the Quinta Flavia Severina. Relief with Nereid and Triton. 3rd century AD. From Rome. Capitoline Museums. Rome. Italy.

Gravestone of Sime; Attica, Greece; about 320 B.C; Marble; 132.1 × 73.7 × 17.1 cm (52 × 29 × 6 3,4 in.)

Mid-relief, Roman sarcophagus, Glyptothek, Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Saint Julien cathedral, Le Mans, France. 16th century relief in the sacristy. Christ's Passion

Banquet. Ernst Alpers (German, active Hannover, Germany about 1867)

Roman sarcophagus. Marriage ceremony. Detail Abundantia with cornucopia. relief. From Via Latina, 270-80 CE. Rome: Massimo Museum.

Early Christian. Roman sarcophagus. Jesus' triumphal entry into Jerusalem. 4th c.

Upper Part of a Tabernacle for the Holy Sacrament. Isaia da Pisa; Italian, active 1428-64. Date: 1450-1475. Dimensions: 88.3 × 116.8 cm (34 3/4 × 46 in.). Marble. Origin: Rome. Museum: The Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, USA.

At the right of the east frieze the north part of the procession comes to an end with two marshals, the first receiving two women and the second receiving another two and clad in pepios, himation and sandals without holding anything. The girl holds an omphalos phiale while the girl beside her turns towards the next girl so as to help her carry an incense burner. This must have been the time when many of the heads of the figures were cut off.

Pergamon Altar detail, early 2nd century. Artist: Unknown.

The Meeting of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, by Ghiberti Lorenzo, 1425 - 1452, 15th Century, casting bronze, chased and gilded. Italy: Tuscany: Florence: Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore Museum. Detail. Panel gold decoration women men group onlookers/bystanders guards horses

Croatia, Salona, Solin, Manastirine, Detail of sarcophagus depicting the myth of Phaedra and Hippolytus

Hercules with birds of Lake Stymphalos and dead Diomedes, from Sarcophagus of Labours of Hercules

fragmento de sarcofago de la basilica, museo,Mezquita-catedral de Córdoba, Andalucia, Spain.

Saint Roch catholic church, Paris, France. Relief depicting Judas Iscariot shaking holding Jesuss hand, plaster by Louis-Pierre Deseine (1805).

France, Aude, abbey Saint Hilaire, details of of the sarcophagus of Saint Sermin (by the Master of Cabestany, 12th century)

Portonaccio sarcophagus. 180 AD. Batlle between Romans and Germanics in Marcomannics Wars. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy.

The Man of Sorrows. Dated: early 16th century. Dimensions: overall: 29.5 x 25.4 cm (11 5/8 x 10 in.). Medium: marble. Museum: National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Author: Milanese 16th Century.

Italy, Tuscany, Pisa, Piazza dei Miracoli, Pisa Cathedral, marble pulpit, detail

Roman era. Sarcophagus of Metilia Acte. From Pianebella, near Ostia. C. 161-170 CE. Wife of Gaius Junius Euhodus. Priestess of the Magna Mater from Ostia. The relief depicts scenes of myth of Alcestis. Detail of Hades and Proserpina. Vatican Museums.

The Damned paraded to Hell, detail from Scenes of the Last Judgment, Stories of the Apocalypse, bas-reliefs by Lorenzo Maitani (before 1275-1330) and aid, fourth pillar, facade of Orvieto cathedral, Umbria, Italy, 13th-14th century.

Italy, Rome, Part of a stone relief from Piazza della Consolazione

Martyrdom of Santa, 19th century, Sculptural relief, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Relief on the Arco di Costantino, Arch of Constantine, Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Lviv (Lviv, Ukraine). Tenement house at ul. Czackiego 4 - Biairian decoration of the facade; Jaworski, Józef Ko Ciecza- (Fl. Ca 1911-Ca 1929); 1912 (negative); 1912-OK. 1922 (print) (1913-00-00-1927-00-00);

Relief of Barbarian. Tunic and thick beard. Campus Martius. Rome. 98-117 AD. Rome. National Roman Museum. Palace Massimo. Rome. Italy.

*ESTELA FUNERARIA DE EGESO-ATRIBUIDA A KALLIMACHOS-S V A JC. Author: KALLIMACHOS ATRIBUID. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-ESCULTURA. ATHENS. GREECE.

Sarcophagus relief depicting naval battle scene

Marcus Claudianus sarcophagus, Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, National Museum of Rome, Italy

Terracotta plaque. Culture: Roman. Dimensions: Overall: 17 3/4 x 19 7/16 x 1 3/4 in. (45.1 x 49.4 x 4.4 cm). Date: 27 B.C.-A.D. 68.Relief with a satyr and a maenad. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.

Brauweiler near Pulheim, St Nicholas Abbey Church, choir, portal on the south side with sculpture of Mathilde, detail of drapery

MARIA DE MOLINA. REINA DE CASTILLA . ESPOSA DE SANCHO IV.. DETALLE DEL SEPULCRO EN EL MONASTERIO DE HUELGAS DE VALLADOLID.

Lazio Roma Velletri Museo Civico di Velletri05. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Marble tondo of the depositon, early christian sarcophagus. Antiquities: Roman;statue of Athena, male and female sculpture fragments- heads, torsos, marble cinerary urn; cippi with inscriptions inscriptions, altars, sarcofagi, sarcofagus with scenes of the feats of Herakles. Etruscan; votive objects, heads, legs feet, eyes, uterus, intestine , animals; bronze objects Architectural sculpture and fragments; relief of procession pottery fragments, lamps; brickstamps. Object Notes: The Museo Civico is housed in the Palazzo Comunale. There are two Hutzel photo campaign notes, one undated and the other November 9, 1985. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s until his death. The result of this project, referred to by Hutzel as Foto Arte Minore, is thorough documentation of art historical development in Italy up to the 18th century, including objects

Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC. Marble and limestone. Gigantomachy. South frieze. The Titan Phoebe with a torch fighting against a winged giant. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

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