Reliefs of Ancient Civilizations

Intricate marble carvings and reliefs from ancient Greece and Rome, showcasing historical narratives, figures, and decorative elements.

Greek relief of a family sacrificing. Artist: Unknown

Greek Art. Classic Period. Funerary stele for Ktesilaos and Theano, Ca. 370 B.C. A mature man looks sorrowfully at a woman who sits on a chair. Relief. Marble. It comes from Athens. National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece.

Italy. Pisa. Campo Santo. Roman sarcophagus decorated with mythological figures, The Muses. c. 250. 3rd century. Tuscany.

Budapest, Wohnhaus Kazinczy utca 51, Gyula Fodor. 1907 // Budapest, Apartment House Kazinczy utca 51, Gyula Fodor. 1907 *** Budapest, Apartment House Kazinczy utca 51, Gyula Fodor 1907 Budapest, Apartment House Kazinczy utca 51, Gyula Fodor 1907

Juan Antonio Padua / 'The Consejo de Indias'. 1753 - 1759. Marble. Museum: Museo del Prado, Madrid, España.

Diana, After a Model for a High Relief in the Amsterdam Town Hall (now Royal Palace) at Dam Square, Artus Quellinus (I) (workshop of), c. 1651 - c. 1664 Amsterdam terracotta (clay material) Amsterdam terracotta (clay material)

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 without holding anything. The girl holds an imphalos phiale while the girl beside her turns toward 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.

Lazio Roma Velletri Museo Civico di Velletri10. 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

Epitafium eques singularis Augusti dekorowane płaskorzeźbą ze sceną polowania. unknown, author

Delphes - Grèce. Musée. Fronton du Trésor de Cnide - dispute du trépied delphique , Greek temples, Antiquities, Sculpture, Pediments, Cnidian Lesche Delphi. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

Imperial Roman era. Basin of sculpture of a river god Arno. Sarcophagus. 170-180 AD. Decorated with scenes of battles between Greeks and Amazons. Relief. Vatican Museums.

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

ARCO DE TITO- DESFILE TRIUNFAL CELEBRADO EN ROMA CON MOTIVO DE LA CONQUISTA DE JERUSALEN POR TITO E. Location: ARCO DE TITO. Rome. ITALIA. TITO FLAVIO.

Detail from the Nereid Monument, a sculptured tomb from Xanthos in classical period Lycia. Dated 4th Century BC

Etruscan civilization, alabaster urn, relief depicting funeral procession of magistrate

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.

Jesse tree and messianic prophecies, Stories of Genesis, bas-reliefs by Lorenzo Maitani (before 1275-1330), second pillar, facade of Orvieto cathedral, Umbria, Italy, 14th century.

Romanesque doorway sculptures by the Croatian architect Master Radovan, Saint Lawrence Cathedral, Trogir, Croatia, Europe

Two men on galloping horses. The second is wearing a panther skin over his cloak, components of Thracian dress that were adopted by the Athenian cavalry. Note the differences between the manes of the two horses, unruly on the right horse and carefully combed on the left.

Carvings of soldiers in the Apadana Stairway of Persepolis, Shiraz, Iran

The apobates has descended from the chariot and is standing on a rock. The chariot has reached its destination and the charioteer leans back as he pulls hard on the reigns. He is wearing the charioteer's long chiton with bands tied crosswise to facilitate movement. A marshal turns back to signal the end of the race.

Pergamon Altar. Built by order of Eumenes II Soter. 164-156 BC by artists of the school of Pergamon. Marble and limestone. East frieze. Gigantomachy. Zeus fights by hurling lightning bolts, rain and massed clouds not only against two young Giants but also against their leader, Porphyrion (right). Pergamon Museum. Berlin. Germany.

Front of a frieze sarcophagus. Resurretion of the son of the widow of Nain. Unknown. 300-330 AD. Roman sarcophagus. Early Christian. Vatican Museums.

Relief depicting a Greek pursuing an Amazon. Marble. It is part of a pair of duplicate relief slabs, Roman copies made in an ancient Attic workshop in the mid-2nd century AD, depicting scenes from the shield of Athena on the Athena Parthenos statue by Phidias in the Parthenon. Found in the port of Piraeus, it was intended to decorate a building in Rome. Archaeological Museum of Piraeus. Greece.

Saint-Martin-de-Boscherville, Abbaye Saint-Georges de Boscherville, chapter house, capital at the entrance (copies)

Italy. Pisa. Campo Santo Tuscany region. Stone sarcophagus. Relief of a roma solider with a prisioner. Roman imperial era.

lobo, claustro del Monasterio de San Juan de los Reyes, Toledo, Castilla-La Mancha, Spain.

APOLLODORUS OF DAMASCUS (60-129). Column of Trajan. 110. ITALY. Rome. Forum of Trajan. First Dacian War. I Campaign. Roman legionnaires defending a fort. Roman art. Early Empire. Relief on marble.

Archaeological Museum of Rhodes - Artefacts Archaeological Museum of Rhodes - Artefact

Celtic civilization, Italy, 2nd century b.C. Detail of a terracotta frieze depicting a soldier on the run. From a votive temple at Civitalba, Sassoferrato (Ancona province).

Roman relief depicting Three Nymphs. 1st century AD. Marble. Dedicated to the Nymphs on the Island of Ischia by Pholia. Detail. The State Hermitage Museum. Saint Petersburg. Russia.

Sarcophagus of mourning women. 4th century BC. Pentelic marble. From Royal Necropolis of Sidon. Chamber I. Archaeological Museum. Museum of Ancient Orient. Istanbul. Turkey.

Wise Man (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi) ca. 1175-1200 Spanish The Virgin with Christ seated on her lap is flanked, on the left, by two magi, and, on the right, by a seated Joseph; the third magus is missing. The group, which may have originally been made for the main portal, was, at a later date, set into a side wall of the church at Cerezo de Riotirón. the rhythmic pleats, hook folds, and blocky masses of the figures are characteristic of Castillian sculpture in the late 12th century.See also 30.77.6, .8, .9.. Wise Man (from a group with the Adoration of the Magi) 471051

Funerary stele of two Hoplites, Chairedemos and Lykeas, one is naked and other is wearing chlamys, both are armed with spear and shield, from Salamis, Greece

Athens - sculptural fragment, Parthenon frieze. Dimitrios Constantin (Greek, active 1858 - 1860s)

Detail of the Abbey-Church of St-Pierre-at-Mossaic. Artist: Unknown

Column sculpture on Doges' Palace Venice Italy

Amazon and a warrior fighting, depicted in part of the Parthenon friezes at the Parthenon/Acropolis museum, Athens

Church of Santa Maria la Real. 13th century. Main façade. Tympanum and archivolts. Live of Saint Mary and Jesus. Gothic stye.

Byzantine warriors. Byzantine ivory box. 10th cent. TURKEY.

Small plate with Peter and Paul, by Unknown artist, 5th Century, ivory. Italy: Campania: Napoli: Castellamare di Stabia. Whole artwork. Small plate ivory apostles St Peter St Paul embrace/hug

Italy. Pisa. CampoSanto. Roman sarcophagus. Abduction of Persephone. On the left, Demeter driving a carriage. Imperial era.

Mucius Scaevola before LarsPorsenna. Artist: Unknown

Europe, England, London. British Museum, The Greek Gallery. Original Athenian artifacts from the Parthenon. THIS IMAGE RESTRICTED - Not available to U.S. land tour travel operators.

Marble sarcophagus with marble group on lid representing deceased couple and relief depicting battle between Greeks and Amazons, detail of Amazon on horse with her hair being pulled, from Thessaloniki

Ancient stone sarcophagus from Tyros depicting the story of Achilleus, Achillus, Tyre, Sour, National Museum, Beirut, Beyrouth, Lebanon, Middle East, West Asia, Asia

Archaic metope of Apollo and Artemis, 6th century. Artist: Unknown

Roman sarcophagus. Early Christian. Erotes harvesting wheat and grapes. Symbolic vine. 4th century. Marble. Vatican Museums. Vatican city State.

Statue of battle scene in the EPHESUS MUSEUM - TURKEY

Iran, Nasq-e-Rostam, Near Persepolis

Romanesque Art. Monastery of Santa Maria de Ripoll. Founded by the Count Wilfred the Hairy in 879 or 880. Historic-artistic monument since 1931. Sculptural portic. Detail. Ripoll. Catalonia. Spain.

Roman Art. Italy. Portonaccio sarcophagus. Dated in the 2nd century. Tomb of a Roman general who participated in the German campaigns against Germanic barbarians with the Emperor Marcus Aurelius, the years 172-175. From Villa delle Pietralata. Portonaccio. Palazzo Massimo. National Roman Museum. Rome.

Basilica of the National Vow (Spanish: Basílica del Voto Nacional), Roman Catholic church located in the historic center of Quito, Ecuador. Door relief detail.

ARQUETA DE VEROLI - AGAMENON PRESENCIA EL SACRIFICIO DE IFIGENIA - MARFIL - SIGLO X - ARQUETA PROCEDENTE DE ESTAMBUL. Location: VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM. LONDON. ENGLAND.

Hermes agoraios and a Charity. Relief from the Passage of the Theores, Thasos, c.470 BC . Marble. Detail Hermes.

antigua portada del Hospital de San Juan de Acre en el cementerio municipal, estilo románico, Navarrete, La Rioja, Spain.

MEDALLON-RELIEVE DE SANTIAGO MATAMOROS-S XVI-RENACIMIENTO ESPAÑOL. Author: BARTOLOME ORDOÑEZ (1480-1520). Location: CATEDRAL-CAPILLA REAL-INTERIOR. GRANADA. SPAIN. Apóstol Santiago el Mayor. APOSTOL SANTIAGO EN CLAVIJO. APOSTOL SANTIAGO-SANTIAGO MATAMOROS.

Delphes - Grèce. Musée. Frise Nord du Trésor de Cnide - Gigantomachie , Greek temples, Antiquities, Sculpture, Friezes Entablature components, Cnidian Lesche Delphi. Nicholas Catsimpoolas Collection

PILA BAUTISMAL ROMANICA. Location: CATEDRAL-MUSEO DIOCESANO. PALENCIA. SPANIEN.

Pierre-Joseph Michel (1737-after 1759). "The rocking". Bas-relief in terracotta, around 1770. Paris, Cognacq-Jay museum. Angel, balance, bas-relief, rocking, fauna, play, playing, terracotta

Hearthstone, from Antwerp Belgium, with narrow frame, with the history of Susanna, hearthstone fireplace part ceramic brick, fired Hearth of the Antwerp type with narrow list depicting the Susanna sentenced to death who meets Daniel (Daniel 13: 45v) on the right boy carries basket of stones to building history warm old testament bible religion Susanna Daniel

Heracles marble sarcophagus, Perge, 2nd c. Archaeological Museum, Antalya, Turkey, Antalya, Turkey, Asia

Asia, Iran, Naqsh-e Rustam. Detail of Artaxerxes I tomb.

Sol invectus, moon and Jupiter Dolichenus. 2nd century AD. National Roman Museum. The Baths of Diocletian. Rome. Italy.

Marble group portraying Poseidon, Demeter and Artemis, from Agora of Smyrna, Zeus Altar (Turkey)

Wall carving of Saint George and the Dragon. Piran. Slovenia

The Martyrdom of Saint Emerentiana' by Ercole Ferrata (1610-1686) Italian sculptor of the Roman Baroque. Dated 17th Century

Detail of the Ara Pacis, 1st century BC. Artist: Unknown

Relief in Marble, 'Le Jugement de Salomon'. Circa 1516-1529 By Italian sculptor Giovanni Maria Mosca. One of his earliest documented works. Completed during his time in Padua as a commission for Giovanni d'Antonio Minello.

Lazio Roma Rome S. Paolo99. 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.

Greek relief of a sacrifice to Demeter, 4th century BC. Artist: Unknown

Marble relief depicting Julius Caesar invading Britain by John Deare (1759-1798) a British neo-classical sculptor. Dated 18th Century

Delphi, Phocis. Greece. North frieze of the Treasury of the Siphnians. Lion, Apollo ad Artemis. 530-480 BC. Delphi Archaeological museum. Greece.

Attica, Oropos, Temple of Amphiaraos, Votive marble relief depicting Amphiaraus healing Archinus' shoulder

Canada, Saskatchewan, Saskatoon: Ukrainian Museum of Canada Ukrainian Bas Relief of Museum Doors

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

Greek Art. Greece. Parthenon (447-438 b.C). Fragment of the North frieze XXIV depicting a marshal behind a carriage. British Museum. London. England. UK.

Turkey, Istanbul, relief in the base of the Tuthmosis III Obelisk,

Early Christian sarcophagus with relief found in the cemetery under St Maximin's Church, Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. Roman civilization, 4th century AD.

FACHADA OCCIDENTAL - PEDESTAL CON TROFEOS DE GUERRA - S XVI. Author: OREA JUAN DE. Location: PALACIO DE CARLOS V. GRANADA. SPAIN.

Border (France); block-printed on handmade paper; 54 x 24.5 cm (21 1/4 x 9 5/8 in.)

Roman civilization, Dacian family, relief from metope from Tropaeum Traiani monument from Adamclisi, Romania

Greek civilization, bas-relief depicting mourning Athena standing in front of stele

Marcus Aurelius (121-180 d.C). Stoic philosopher and Roman emperor Antonine Dynasty (161-192). Headless statue, probably of the emperor Marcus Aurelius. Erected in the eastern naiscos nymphaeum. Detail. Archaeological Museum of Olympia. Greece.

Relief of the myth of god Mithras. Illustrating the slaying of the bull inside a grotto. Rome, Tore Cervara. End 2nd c. AD-stard 3rd c.AD. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.

Cinerary altar of government secretaries. From Rome. 1st C. Q. Fulvius and his brother Quintus Fulvius Priscus, who served as scribae librarii (public secretaries or clerks) of the curule aediles. Upper relief shows the brother at work handling tablets. Rome. Terme Diocleziano, Diocletian Baths. Rome. Italy.

Monumental tomb. Sarcophagus. Roman period. Cladius Era. 1st century. Hierapolis Archaeology Museum. Turkey. Detail.

Capital of the cloister of the Monastery of San Cugat del Vallés, XII-XIII century, San Cugat del Vallés, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain.

RELIEVE - HERMES TIRANDO DEL CARRO DONDE VAN ECHELOS Y BASILE. Location: MUSEO ARQUEOLOGICO-ESCULTURA. ATHENS. GREECE.

Rome, Italy, August 22, 2008: Sarcophagus with imago clipeata

SIENA cathedral Romanesque bas reIIef from the Ponte allo Spino Church Alinari

Pyramus and Thisbe ca. 1775-80 Gebhard Boos. Pyramus and Thisbe. Gebhard Boos (German, Aix-la-Chapelle (Aachen) 1730/31-1814 Haguenau). German, Aachen. ca. 1775-80. Alabaster. Sculpture

Relief depicting a nude malefigure

Notre Dame Cathedral. South facade. Saint-Etienne's gate tympanum sculptures depicting Saint-Etienne's life Paris . France.

Capitel. Catedral de Santa Tecla de Tarragona.

Cylinder Seal with worshippers honouring altar of god as he sails past in a boat. Sumerian. c. 2300 BC. MESOPOTAMIA.

Palmyra. Funerary relief depicting a matron with smaller figure of a child. Palmyra, Syria. 84 AD. British Museum. London. UK.

Panel of Hierapolis Theatre scene(Turkey). Dionysos who joins in the vintage festival is accompanied by Nymphs, Satyrs, Eros and kentauri (horse-men) and pan. Roman era. End of 2nd century A.D. Hierapolis Museum. Turkey.

(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.

Victoria tauromaca Victoria tauromaca, 2nd century after Christ, marble, Forum of Trajan, basilica Ulpia, Rome, Borghese collection Copyright: xZoonar.com/Tolox 23019363

RELIEVE EN LA FACHADA SUR. Author: OREA JUAN DE. Location: PALACIO DE CARLOS V. GRANADA. SPAIN.

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