Ancient Sculptural Reliefs

Reliefs and carvings from different ancient civilizations, depicting historical figures and scenes, showcasing artistry from Roman and other cultures.

Turkey, Aegean, Selcuk, Ephesus museum, carved figures on a Sarcophagus

Statue detail within colonnade wall, Millennium Monument, Heroes Square, Budapest, Hungary

Detail of the Colonne Vendome victory column at Place Vendome, Paris, France, Europe

Façade Decoration with a Bust of Hugo de Groot (1583-1645), Frans Blanchard, c. 1742 Door crown of oak wood with a medallion portrait by Hugo de Groot. Below inscription 'Hugo Grotius'. The portrait is engraved by W.J. Delff, to Mierevelt. The door crown is depicted on a painting by J. Ouwater, the lottery office in the Kalverstraat, 1779 and on two watercolors with the same image, also by J. Ouwater. Northern Netherlands (possibly) oak (wood). softwood Door crown of oak wood with a medallion portrait by Hugo de Groot. Below inscription 'Hugo Grotius'. The portrait is engraved by W.J. Delff, to Mierevelt. The door crown is depicted on a painting by J. Ouwater, the lottery office in the Kalverstraat, 1779 and on two watercolors with the same image, also by J. Ouwater. Northern Netherlands (possibly) oak (wood). softwood

Pillow seller. Augustus reign (1st c.BF- 1st c.). Roman art. Early Empire. Relief. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. Galleria degli Uffizi (Uffizi Gallery).

DAVID REY HEBREO . 1015 - 975 AC DETALLE EN LA FACHADA PLATERIAS DE LA CATEDRAL DE SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA, OBRA DEL MAESTRO MATEO.

Aimé-Jules Dalou (1838-1902). "Alphand monument". Terracotta, between 1891 and 1896. Museum of Fine Arts of the city of Paris, Petit Palais. Commemorative, detail, French ingeniteer, monument, terracotta, view face

Decorative relief carved in marble with Dionysius and Silenus. First half of II century a.C. Museum of Fine Arts. Budapest. Hungary.

Anefo photo collection. Bronze door for the St. Laurenskerk in Rotterdam its doors for the St. Laurenstoren. November 14, 1968. Rotterdam, South Holland

R-MEDALLON DE MARFIL PAREJA. Location: PRIVATE COLLECTION. MADRID. SPAIN.

Coimbra, Portugal. University of Coimbra, carved reliefs.

"L'Agriculture et les Arts", Sculpture by Eugène Louis Lequesne, Decoration of the Louvre, Paris. Édouard Baldus (French, born Germany, 1813 - 1889)

Relief portraying acceptance of Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus as co-emperors, detail from Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus monument in ancient Ephesus, Turkey

Madonna with the Child, by Andrea Gurdi lunette over the portal of Cathedral in Pisa, Italy. Unesco World Heritage Site

DET - NUEVA PUERTA DE BRONCE ESCULPIDO DE LA CATEDRAL - 1999. Author: LUIS SANGUINO de pascual (1934-). Location: CATEDRAL DE LA ALMUDENA. MADRID. SPAIN. SUQUIA CARDENAL. ANTONIO MARIA ROUCO VARELA. JUAN CARLOS I DE BORBON (1938-). JUAN CARLOS I DE ESPAÑA (1938-). SOFIA DE GRECIA (1938-). SOFIA REINA DE ESPAÑA (1938-).

Sarcophagus with a Greek physician. Marble. Roman era. From Ostia (port of Rome),Italy. Carved. Early 300s. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Ny. Usa.

Saint Bridget of Sweden Receiving the Rule of Her Order. Artist: Agostino d'Antonio di Duccio (Italian, 1418-after 1481). Culture: Italian, Perugia. Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 16 3/4 × 25 1/8 × 2 3/4 in., 57 lb. (42.5 × 63.8 × 7 cm, 25.9 kg). Date: 1459.When this relief was exhibited in Paris in 1878, the German scholar Wilhelm von Bode attributed it to Agostino di Duccio.1 His identification was accepted by all major scholars; the subject, on the other hand, puzzled many.2 Eugène Piot referred to it as a scene from the life of Saint Catherine, and he was followed by Émile Bertaux, who connected it with the Mystical Marriage of Saint Catherine, but with considerable hesitation.3 Others, such as Enrico Brunelli, who doubted the relief's authenticity, recognized in it the Virgin Taking Leave of Her Son before the Passion.4 Bode called it The Return of Christ from the Temple, and his interpretation was followed into the 1960s, when John Shearman identified the subject as Christ Retu

Lazio Roma Rome S. Paolo29. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture fragments, tomb sculpture fragments, sculptural fragments, inscribed tomb markers, sculpture, fresco painting, mosaics Specific Location: Basilica Antiquities: Architectural sculpture fragments, tomb sculpture fragments, sculpture fragments General Notes: the "tomb markers" need to be sorted and catalogued 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.

Roman Sculptor; Andrea Calamech (Calamecca) / 'Apotheosis of Claudius'. Ca. 1560. White marble. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Diptych showing episodes depicting the Coronation of the Virgin, the Washing of the Feet, the Crucifixion and the Ascension, ca. 1370. Flemish (). Ivory. Calouste Gulbenkian Museum. Lisbon, Portugal.

ESTELA FUNERARIA - LUTATIA LUPATA - RELIEVE DE TAÑEDORA DE LAUD - 1ER TERCIO SIGLO II DC - ARTE ROMANO. Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ARTE ROMANO. MERIDA. Badajoz. SPAIN.

Garland sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman period, 3rd century CE. Decorated with floral garlands and deities. The open-mouthed mask indicates that the sarcophagus is from Asia Minor. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Gilded copper plaque depicting the resurrection of the dead. Dated 13th Century

Roman sarcophagus, Sarcofago romano, Antiquity, Camposanto Monumentale monumental cemetery, Miracles Square, Piazza dei Miracoli also Campo dei Miracoli, Piazza del Duomo, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Europe

Sculpture of Hariti and Panchika. Dated 100 AD

Saints Acisclus and Victoria () early 17th century Spanish. Saints Acisclus and Victoria (). Spanish. early 17th century. Bronze, natural patina. Medals and Plaquettes

Roman inscription dedicated to a philanthropist (Theaterstiftung) and relief depicting the goddess Victoria, 253 AD, sandstone plate, cm 95x110x17, Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Roman civilization, 3rd century AD.

Palmyra was an ancient city in Syria. It was an important city in central Syria, located in an oasis 215 km northeast of Damascus and 180 km southwest of the Euphrates at Deir ez-Zor. It had long been a vital caravan city for travellers crossing the Syrian desert and was known as the Bride of the Desert. The earliest documented reference to the city by its Semitic name Tadmor, Tadmur or Tudmur (which means 'the town that repels' in Amorite and 'the indomitable town' in Aramaic) is recorded in Babylonian tablets found in Mari.

Nilo, Vaticano , Antiquities, Sculpture, Gods. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Sculptures symbolizing "cum viribus unitis", joining forces, inner Burgtor castle gate of the Hofburg Imperial Palace, Vienna, Vienna State, Austria, Europe

Garland sarcophagus. Marble. Tel Mevorah. Roman period, 3rd century CE. Decorated with floral garlands and deities. The open-mouthed mask indicates that the sarcophagus is from Asia Minor. Rockefeller Archaeological Museum. Jerusalem. Israel.

Italy. Pisa. CampoSanto. Roman sarcophagus. Lion devouring a horse with male figure in a tunic and cloak and strigilatd ornament.

Roman art. Turkey. Ionic capital. Characterized by the use of volutes. Pergamon Museum. (Photo by: PHAS/UIG)

Funerary stele of Sosias and Kephisodoros. Detail of two soldiers. 410 BC. Pentelic marble. Found at Athens, Greece. Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Pre-Romanesque choir screen, The Meeting of Christ with Martha and Mary, workshop from Aquileia, 10th-11th century, Palazzo Patriarcale, Dioezesan Museum with the Tiepolo Galleries, 16th century, Udine, most important historical city in Friuli, Italy, Udine, Friuli, Italy, Europe

Fang Xuanling Pedestal, 647. China, Tang dynasty (618-907). Marble; overall: 66 cm (26 in.).

Family group. Busts of a bearded man, a woman and four children. First half of the 3rd century AD. From Prosotsani, Drama region, Greece. National Archaeological Museum. Sofia. Bulgaria.

Grave of Johannes Leeb, 1790-1863, sculptor, Alter Suedfriedhof, old cemetery in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Exterior decoration of Le Mans Cathedral, Le Mans, France, 15th century (1849).Artist: H Moulin

Burial stele from the 1st century, Museo Archeologico Concordiese with finds from the Roman period, medieval old town, Portogruaro, Veneto, Friuli, Italy, Portogruaro, Veneto, Italy, Europe

Relief with a parturition scene. Marble. 400 BCE 300 CE. 25 × 34 × 6.3 cm. Inv. No. A129245. Private collection. Ostia. Museum: London Science Museum, LONDRES, UK.

Funerary monument of the Novelii, Augustan age, Milan, Lombardy, Italy, Roman civilization.

The Standard of Ur, War 2400 B.C. The main panels are known as War and Peace. War shows one of the earliest representations of a Sumerian army

Alexander Sarcophagus. 4th century BC. Long side depicting Alexander and the Macedonians hunting lions with Abdalonymus and the Persians. Pentelic marble. From the Royal Necropolis of Sidon. Archaeological Museum. Istanbul. Turkey.

Arqueta, siglo XV. Fundación Juan March.

Tomba dei Festoni, portrait reliefs

Relief depicting goldsmith at work (aurifex brattiarius), detail

Łacińska inskrypcja nagrobna. unknown, author

Taffrail, inland barge, National Maritime Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Inscribed funerary relief of Aurelius Hermia and his wife Aurelia Philematium. 80 BC. From a tomb in the Via Nomentana, Rome. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.

SILLERIA DE S BENITO-CRISTO ANTE PILATOS. Location: MUSEO NACIONAL DE ESCULTURA-COLECCION. Valladolid. SPANIEN. JESUS. PONCIO PILATO-PILATOS-PONTIUS PILATUS.

Nile , Antiquities, Sculpture, Gods. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Lichfield, Cathedral, Tomb of The Sleeping Children

Bas-relief of God Mercurius from Augsburg, Roman excavations, Cambodunum Archaeological Park, Kempten, Allgaeu, Swabia, Bavaria, Germany, Europe

Josef and his brothers Paradiest door Florence Paradiest door of Lorenzo Ghiberti 1425 at the Baptistery next to the cathedral in Florence

Turkey. Istanbul. Archaeological museum. Interior.

L.della Robbia / Grammar / Relief / 1437

Archbishop Theodorus' sarcophagus. 5th century. Reused for Archbishop Theodorus. Sant'Apollinare in Classe. Ravenna.

Relief depicting interior of workshop

Tomb Altar of Caltilius and Caltilia; Roman Empire; 100 - 125; Marble; 128 × 80 × 63.5 cm (50 3,8 × 31 1,2 × 25 in.)

Venus as Shepherdess; about 1840 Marble Thomas Crawford American; about 1813-1857

Germany. Munich. Glyptothek. Room of the Roman Portraits. Inside.

Venice, St Mark's Square (Piazza San Marco), St Mark's Basilica (Basilica di San Marco), south façade, group of tetrarchs, porphyry statues of the late Roman ruler Diocletian and his co-rulers Maximian, Constantius I and Galerius, c. 300

Medieval misericord from Beauvais, 15th cent. Churning. dairy. FRANCE.

Lazio Roma Rome S. Paolo86. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture fragments, tomb sculpture fragments, sculptural fragments, inscribed tomb markers, sculpture, fresco painting, mosaics Specific Location: Basilica Antiquities: Architectural sculpture fragments, tomb sculpture fragments, sculpture fragments General Notes: the "tomb markers" need to be sorted and catalogued 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.

Stone plaque dedicated to emperor Nero (Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus) (37-68 AD) honouring his person and lists his titles: Pontifex Maximus, Tribune, Consul, Emperor and Father of the Homeland. 61-62 AD. Marble. From the Forum of Augusta Emerita (Merida, Badajoz province, Extremadura, Spain). National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.

Silver Plaquette from France of La SainteFamille. Artist: Jules Lefebvre, French, 1834-1912

Stone carving, three happy card players and a patron in a tavern, Koblenz, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, Europe

A Roman family. Roman period.

Bronze figures at the base of the monument to Frederick the Great Unter den Linden, Berlin, Germany, Europe

Lazio Roma Rome S. Paolo31. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture fragments, tomb sculpture fragments, sculptural fragments, inscribed tomb markers, sculpture, fresco painting, mosaics Specific Location: Basilica Antiquities: Architectural sculpture fragments, tomb sculpture fragments, sculpture fragments General Notes: the "tomb markers" need to be sorted and catalogued 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.

Croatia, Central Dalmatia, SOLIN / SALONA. Ruins of the Roman city of SALONA (1st century BC) Manastrine details: early burial place for Christian martyrs

Poetess Sappho, 1852. Marble statue by James Pradier (1790-1852). Detail of lyre. Orsay Museum. Paris. France. Author: JAN VAN DER HEYDEN.

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