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.

Italy. Pisa. CampoSanto. Roman sarcophagus. Bust of the deceased and scene of marine thiasos. 3rd cent. CE. Marble.

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.

Great Eleusinian relief , Bas-reliefs, Antiquities, Goddesses, Gods, Triptolemus Greek mythology, Demeter Greek deity, Persephone Greek deity. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

The Newly-weds, stone column with reliefs

Archäologisches Museum, Neapel, Italien Sarkophag Copyright: xZoonar.com/IgnacyxxPilchx 22763253

Marble sarcophagus. Sarcophagi from the excavations of the city of Perge Antalya, Turkey - May 20, 2019: Marble sarcophagus. Sarcophagi from the excavations of the city of Perge. Scenes and symbols carved in the bas-relief on the walls of the sarcophagus. Museum of antiquity of Antalya. Copyright: xZoonar.com/LeonidxEremeychukx 14022722

Relieve procedente de La Seu Vella de Lleida, alabastro, siglo XIV. Museu de Lleida.

Elektrozavodskaya, Moscow Metro station on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. Built as part of the third stage of the Moscow Metro and opened on 15 May 1944 during World War II, the station is one of the iconic symbols of the Soviet era transport system. The station's legacy was that it serves as a bridge between the pre-war Art Deco-influenced Stalinist architecture

Roman art. Sarcophagus showing the dead reclining on a couch. Archaeological Museum. Tadmor. Syria.

Roman sarcophagus. Roman. Early Christian. Scenes from the New Testament. Vatican Museums.

Sepulchre of Cardinal Cisneros. Alcala de Henares, San Ildefonso church. Author: BARTOLOME ORDOÑEZ (1480-1520). Location: IGLESIA DE SAN ILDEFONSO. Alcalá de Henares. MADRID. SPAIN. CARDENAL CISNEROS (1436-1517). FRANCISCO JIMÉNEZ DE CISNEROS (1436-1517).

Duomo Inside: Bas Relief. Cremona. Italy

Etruscan civilization Terracotta polychrome cinerary urn depicting duel between Eteocles and Polynices

Marble relief depicting nude pyrrhic dancers performing war dance

Marble statue representing Tiber River, Copy on smaller scale of statue (Rome, Vatican Museums) which was in its turn copy of Hellenistic (Alexandrine) original of 4th-1st century b.C.

Sarcophagus, Serai, Syria. Angle view. 1898, Syria

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

Fresco on old palace, orta, Italy

Classic and RomanticArt. Artist: John Singer Sargent, American, born Italy, 1856-1925, LL.D. 1916

Model for the Tomb of Géricault after 1840 Antoine Etex The bronze tomb of the Romantic painter Théodore Géricault (1791-1824) is in the Père Lachaise cemetery, in Paris. On top, Géricault reclines in the manner of an Etruscan funerary effigy. The front bears a relief after his immortal Raft of the Medusa.. Model for the Tomb of Géricault 231030

Urania, musa de la astronomia, Italia, siglo I dC, marmol, coleccion His de la Salle.

Marble relief depicting trophy with prisoners

Roman sarcophagus dedicated to M. Aurelius Romanus. On the right. Portrait of the deceased between 2 philosophers. Rome. Italy. National Roman Museum.Rome. Italy.

Victoria tauromaca, siglo II despues de Cristo, marmol, Forum de Trajano, basilica Ulpia, Roma, coleccion Borghese.

Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, medieval relief on the facade of Basilica of San Zeno in Verona, Italy Adam and Eve eat the fruit of the forbidden tree, medieval relief on the facade of Basilica of San Zeno in Verona, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 21071257

Grave Naiskos of Demainete with an Attendant Holding a Partridge. Unknown

Saint Stephen's Cathedral in Bourges, Tympanum of central doorway, Old City of Bourges, The Way of St. James, Chemins de Saint Jacques, Via Lemovicensis, Bourges, Dept. Cher, Région Centre, France, Europe

Brühl, Augustusburg Palace/ Staircase, putti under the right undercroft

Hellenistic workshop / 'Dance in honour of Dionysus'. 50 a.C. - 30 a.C.. White marble. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España. Author: TALLER HELENÍSTICO.

Roman sarcophagus. About 140 AD. Mythological scene. Orestes and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.

Roman sarcophagus with the legend of Selene and Endymion, 230-235 AD. Artist: Unknown

RELIEVE DEL MONUMENTO HONORARIO DE MARCO AURELIO: SACRIFICIO A JUPITER CAPITOLINO - MARMOL - 176/180 DC. Location: MUSEO CAPITOLINO. Rome. ITALIA. Jupiter. MARCO AURELIO EMPERADOR.

Jonah and the Whale by Lorenzetto, stone, 1520, (1490-1541), Italy, Rome, Santa Maria del Popolo

Victoria tauromaca, siglo II despues de Cristo, marmol, Forum de Trajano, basilica Ulpia, Roma, coleccion Borghese.

717 stele from Athens N. Mus. , Stelae, Sculpture, Antiquities. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Roman Art. Relief of sarcophagus. Child and tutor writing on wax tablet with a Styli. Vatican Museum. City of the Vatican.

Interior, Cathedral of Santa Maria Assunta, Pisa, Tuscany, Italy, Europe, Detailed stone reliefs depicting a historical religious scene in artistic execution, Europe

Roman altar, from the imperial period, in marble, with a relief that represents the scene of Cleobis and Biton pulling the chariot of their mother Cydipe. Rome. National Roman Museum (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.

Reliefs, new sacristy, 16th century, Convent of Christ, year 1162, Tomar, Santarem district, Portugal, Europe.

Iran, Persepolis, Apadana Staircase, Carving, King'S New Year'S Reception: Elamites

LA DANZA - BAJORRELIEVE PARA LA OPERA DE PARIS - 1867/69 - ROMANTICISMO FRANCES. Author: JEAN BAPTISTE CARPEAUX (1827-1875). Location: MUSEE D'ORSAY. France.

Inspiring the Warriors. Ernst Alpers (German, active Hannover, Germany about 1867)

Marble relief depicting musical challenge between Apollo and Marsia, from Mantinea

Lazio Roma Grottaferrata Museo50. 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.

Sculpture of Hariti and Panchika. Dated 100 AD

Olive harvest. Fragment of bas relief. Late 3rd century - early 4th century A.D. Roman art. Late Empire. Relief on marble. SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. Cordoba. Archaeological Museum of Cordoba. Proc: SPAIN. ANDALUSIA. CORDOBA. Cordoba.

Betrayal of Christ among figures of Prophets, scene from Life of Christ, detail from panel on the pulpit in Pisa Cathedral, 1302-1310, by Giovanni Pisano (ca 1240-before 1320), marble, Cathedral of St Mary of the Assumption, Cathedral Square or Square of Miracles (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1987), Pisa, Tuscany. Italy, 14th century.

Parthenon. South Metope 1. Lapith and Centaur. Marble. Master builder, Phidias. 5th century BC. Acropolis of Athens. Acropolis Museum. Athens. Greece.

Victoria and Albert museum, London, U.K. Plaster cast of the Schreyer-Landauer monument funerary memorial by Adam Kraft (about 1460-1509). Christ's crucifixion and entombment (detail)

Nanni di Bancos Predella, Plaque Opera Workshop, Florence, Tuscany, Italy

Cast of the Trajan's Column, detail: Roman merchant ship, Roman civilization

Figures with a woman and child who are portrayed in the middle; Details of reliefs on the north facade. .

Sarcophagus with the Labors of Hercules in the Terme Museum, National Museum of Rome, Lazio, Italy, Europe

Relief on the facade of Milan Cathedral, Duomo di Milano, construction begin 1386, completion 1858, Milan, Milano, Lombardy, Italy, Europe, PublicGround, Europe

Right side of the bronze pulpit with the stories of the Redeemer, work by Donatello in the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy Right side of the bronze pulpit with the stories of the Redeemer, work by Donatello in the Basilica di San Lorenzo in Florence, Italy Copyright: xZoonar.com/ZvonimirxAtletix 20831240

CASA DE CULTURA ESCULTURA. Location: EXTERIOR. Valencia. SPAIN.

Column of Trajan. 110. ITALY. Rome. Forum of Trajan. Roman legionaries with a battering ram. Roman art. Early Empire. Relief on rock.

Marble relief depicting scene of funeral banquet with Ceres, Neptune, Arion the horse, and Genius

Roman funerary altar. Detail of camilli bearing parera , a cock and incense during ritual of wedding. 40-50 CE. Rome. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.

Old restored farmhouse at Parabiago, Milan, Lombardy, Italy, in March

TRAJANO. MARCOS ULPIANO. EMPERADOR ROMANO. ITALICA 53 - 117. DETALLE DE LA COLUMNA DE TRAJANO. ESCENA XCIX (49) " LOS SACRIFICIOS DEL EMPERADOR EN EL DANUBIO ". MUSEO ITALICA. SEVILLA.

Metrope of the Parthenon , Friezes Entablature components, Archaeological sites, Bas-reliefs, Greek temples, Parthenon Athens, Greece. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Relief depicting a nude malefigure, 4th-5th century A.D., Limestone, 20 1/4 × 18 1/8 in. (51.5 × 46cm), Egyptian, Coptic, Sculpture

Lazio Roma Grottaferrata Museo45. 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.

Archäologisches Museum, Neapel, Italien Farnese Stier aus Caracalla Thermen, Rom Copyright: xZoonar.com/IgnacyxxPilchx 22763240

Retablo de Sales del Siglo XIV, Huesca. Museum: Museo Episcopal de Huesca. Author: B. TUTXO.

Parthenon. South frieze. 447-432BC. Greek Classical period. Scene sacrifice. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.

Lazio Roma Rome S. Paolo83. 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.

Parthenon. North Frieze. Horseman. Stone number N XLIV, Figures, N 122, N 123. 5th century BC. Pentelic marble. Acropolis of Athens, Greece. British Museum. London, United Kingdom.

Ancient Greece. Funerary stele of a young woman. A bondwoman is depicted fetching her mistress a filled huge basket (kalathos) of wool. From the north cemetery of Piraeus in Thivon Street, c. 380 BC. Detail. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. Greece.

Stone relief, west side of the cathedral in Orvieto, Umbria, Italy, Europe

The Deposition, 1178, marble bas-relief by Benedetto Antelami (ca 1150-1230), Cathedral of Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy.

Scribes. 16th-14th c. BC. 18th dinasty. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. Relief on rock. ITALY. TUSCANY. Florence. National Museum of Archaeology.

Emilia-Romagna Modena Nonantola Abbazia di Nonantola04. 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.

Roman depiction of Mithras killing the bull, 3rd century. Artist: Unknown

Roman relief of a Shop Selling Knives, c2nd century. Artist: Unknown.

Tomb of Saint Eulalia. Lupo di Francesco, 14th century. Cathedral of the Holy Cross and Saint Eulalia, Barcelona. Museum: Catedral de Santa Eulalia, Barcelona.

Venus and Adonis. Venus discovers the body of her beloved Adonis, who has been fatally injured during a wild boar hunt. Bossuit masterfully rendered the goddess of loves dismay as she hastens to his side. During the final years of his life, the Flemish ivory carver Van Bossuit worked almost exclusively for Petronella de la Court, wife of an Amsterdam merchant and herself a beer brewer. This relief comes from her cabinet of art.

Female bust with tunic, marble, 1st century, Peñaranda de Duero, Roman Hispania, Valladolid Museum - Provincial Museum of Antiquities, Autonomous Community of Castile and Leon, Spain.

Tombstone of Centurio Marcus Caelius. Detail. Erworben 1980. Marcus Caelius fell at the age of 53 together with his two freed slaves during the battle of Varus in 9 CE. His brother had this tombstone erected for him. Cast of the stele. German Historical Museum. Berlin. Germany. (Original in the Rhenish State Museum, Bonn).

Roman relief, south wall of the pilgrimage church of Maria Saal, Carinthia, Austria, Europe

Alabaster urn with lid, Etruscan civilization, 2nd century b.c.

Roman sarcophagus decorated in relief with a spiral columned portico, Corinthian capitals and mythological figures, 250 ca., Monumental Cemetery of Pisa (UNESCO World Heritage List, 1987), Tuscany, Italy. Roman civilization, 3rd century.

Right bronze door at the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore. Two angels.

Relief with Amazonomachy. Amazon -female warrior- in combat. Athens, Greece, 2nd century AD. NY Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen.

Relieve romano del llamado sarcófago de Badminton, que representa el triunfo de Dionisio y las cuatro estaciones. Mármol, c. 260-270. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

Roman funerary altar depicting public scribes assinting magistrates. 25-50 CE. National Roman Museum (Baths of Diocletian). Rome. Italy.

Statue of Pan, parian marble, found in Sparta, Peloponnese. The goat-footed god wears an animal pelt, from which protrude only his hairy legs and his left hand, holding the pan-pipe. The expression on the face, with its bestial features, softened by his broad smile. Copy made in the 1st century AD of an original of the 4th century BC.

Relief depicting scene of childbirth, from tomb of Scribonia Attica at Necropolis of Sacred Island, Rome

Sculptures of the wise virgins in the cloister of St.Paulus Cathedral, Muenster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, Europe

Stone cinerary urn of M. Pilius Eucarpus and his wife Pilia Philtata. Dated 1st Century AD

Rest on the Flight into Egypt, c. 1700-1710. Giuseppe Mazza (Italian, 1653-1741). Terracotta; overall: 32.1 x 40 x 10 cm (12 5/8 x 15 3/4 x 3 15/16 in.).

Lazio Roma Rome Episcopal Complex (S. Giovanni in Laterano, Baptistery, Cathedral, Cloister)91. Hutzel, Max 1960-1990 Exterior views of 5th c. baptistery, restored in the 17th c. Interior views of baptismal urn (16th c.), carved walls, ceiling and wall painting; of mosaics and bronze doors in Cappella del Battista; of altar and mosaics in Cappella di S. Venanzio; of mosaic and statue in Cappella di S. Giovanni Evangelista. Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculpture, sculptural fragments, fresco painting, painting, coffering, tiling, stucco. Views 756-886 are of the cathedral. Medieval: Architecture, architectural sculpture, sculptural fragments, architectural fragments, tombstones, mosaics, sculpture, fresco painting, sculptural relief. Object Notes: Hutzel includes guidebook in German on the site. prints matched to negs General Notes: Views 756 thru 886 are of the Baptistery. German-born photographer and scholar Max Hutzel (1911-1988) photographed in Italy from the early 1960s u

Kline funerary monument, on which the deceased is lying, wearing a toga and holding a bust of a dead woman. Marble. 1st century AD. Rome, formerly in Palazzo Rondanini.

Relief depicting the Protection of Innocence, the muse of Wisdom. To the right, seated representations show the Majesty of Law and the Power of Government. US Supreme Court, Washington DC. USA.

3-D recreation of the Olympian gods of the Parthenon frieze. By sculptors from the Tsukuba University, and Tokyo University of the Arts.

Early Classical. Late Archaic. Guardian Sphinxes. Limestone. 470BC-450BC. Lycian. Xanthos, building H. Turkey. British Museum. London. England. United Kingdom.

Greek art. Funerary stele Apollodotos and Metrodotos. 2nd century BC. From Smyrna (now Izmir, Turkey). Father saying goodby to his son. Louvre Museum. Paris. France.

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