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Bust of Alcibiades, Vatican Museums.

Tags: Alcibiades, Art and antiquities, Busts, Sculptures, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Vatican Museum

Drawing of Roman copy of Kresilas's bust of Pericles, Vatican Museum.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Pericles, Sculptures, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Vatican Museum

Busts of Miltiades and Themistocles.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Busts, Central Greece, Greece, Miltiades, Sculptures, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations, Themistocles

The grave stele of Aristion, discovered in Velanideza, Attica and kept at the Archaelogical Museum of Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Funerary steles, Greece, Reliefs, Sculptures, Soldiers, Stele of Aristion

Race in ancient Sparta.

Tags: Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Children, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Gymnasiums, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Laconia, Peloponnese, Sculptures, Sparta, Sports

Parthenon and the gold and ivory statue of goddess Athena (imaginary reconstruction).

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Parthenon, Sculptures

Winged statuette, probably of Eros, discovered at the excavations near the monastery of Saint John the Theologian at ancient Aptera, under the author's supervision. The author took the statuette with him to Britain.

Tags: Aptera (Palaiokastro), Art and antiquities, Chania, Crete, Excavations, Greece, Monasteries, Monastery of Saint John the Theologian (Aptera), Sculptures

The fountain of Bebo at Kornaros square, Heraklion, Crete. The fountain was built between 1552 and 1554 by captain Gianmatteo Bebo. It bears a Venetian coat of arms. At the centre, statue of the Roman era.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Bebo Fountain (Heraklion), Coats of arms – Emblems, Crete, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Heraklion, Irrigation systems, Sculptures, Social sphere and everyday life, Venetian architecture, Venetian monuments

Statue of Conradin, Duke of Swabia and King of Sicily (1252-1268) at the church of Santa Maria del Carmine, Naples. The statue was made by Bertel Thorvaldsen and erected by Maximilian of Bavaria in 1847.

Tags: Bertel Thorvaldsen, Church of Santa Maria del Carmine (Naples), Conradin, History, Italy, Kings, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Portraits, Sculptors, Sculptures, Southern Italy

The tomb of Agnès and Clemence, descendants of Robert of Anjou at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Kings, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy, Women

Tomb of princess Maria of Durazzo, granddaughter of Robert of Anjou, at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Kings, Maria of Durazzo, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy, Women

Tomb of Queen Joanna I (1328-1382), granddaughter of Robert of Anjou, at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Joanna I of Anjou, Kings, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy, Women

Tomb of Maria of Calabria, granddaughter of Robert of Anjou, at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples. Tomb of Louis of Anjou, great-grandson of Robert of Anjou, at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Kings, Louis of Durazzo, Maria of Calabria, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy

Tomb of Charles III, son of Robert of Anjou at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Charles II of Anjou, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Italy, Kings, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Religious practices, Sculptures, Southern Italy

The tomb of Robert of Anjou or Robert the Wise, King of Naples (1277 – 1343) at the church of Santa Chiara, Naples. The tomb is the work of eminent Florentine artists Paccio and Giovanni Bertini.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Church of Santa Chiara (Naples), Churches, Funerary monuments, Giovanni Bertini, Italy, Kings, Medieval architecture, Medieval monuments, Naples / Napoli / anc. Neapolis, Pacio Bertini, Religious practices, Robert of Anjou (Robert the Wise), Sculptors, Sculptures, Southern Italy

Funerary stele of Aristion. Statue of Aeschines the Orator.

Tags: Aeschines, Art and antiquities, Attica, Funerary steles, Greece, Reliefs, Sculptures, Stele of Aristion

Statue of Aphrodite of Milos (Louvre Museum).Statue of Nike by Paeonius (Museum of ancient Olympia).

Tags: Aegean islands, Ancient Olympia, Aphrodite of Milos, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Nike by Paeonius, Peloponnese, Samothrace, Sculptures

The Otricoli Zeus (Vatican Museum).

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Italy, Otricoli, Sculptures, Zeus of Otricoli

Reconstruction of the interior of the temple of Zeus, Olympia.

Tags: Ancient Olympia, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Elis, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Metopes, Peloponnese, Sculptures, Temple of Zeus (Olympia)

The Vatican Apoxyomenos, Roman copy of the Apoxyomenos of Lysippus.

Tags: Apoxyomenos of Lysippus, Art and antiquities, Greece, Sculptures

Offering to a goddess in the inner court of a house or temple (imaginary reconstruction).

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Ancient temples, Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Costume - Hats and headwear, Fountains / Springs, Greece, Houses, Human types, Interiors, Italy, Religious ceremonies, Religious practices, Sculptures, Social sphere and everyday life, Women

Terra-cotta figurine, Tanagra.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Greece, Sculptures, Tanagra, Tanagra figurines

Head-dresses from Tanagra figurines.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Beauty care, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Hairstyles, Sculptures, Tanagra figurines

Ancient Greek methods of dressing the hair. (From Tanagra figurines).

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Beauty care, Greece, Hairstyles, Jewellery, Sculptures, Tanagra figurines

Tanagra figurine.

Tags: Ancient pottery / Vase painting, Art and antiquities, Greece, Sculptures, Tanagra figurines

Funeral stele from Cerameicus, Athens.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Greece, Kerameikos, Reliefs, Religious practices, Sculptures

An attic tomb relief.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Attica, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Funerary steles, Greece, Reliefs, Religious practices, Sculptures

Demosthenes.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Demosthenes, Greece, Sculptures

The prostasis of the Caryatids at the Erechteum.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Erechtheion, Greece, Karyatids, Sculptures

A Caryatid from the Erechtheum.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Erechtheion, Greece, Karyatids, Sculptures

Reconstruction of the interior of the Parthenon with the statue of Athena.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient gods / deities, Art and antiquities, Athena, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Costume - Hats and headwear, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Parthenon, Religious practices, Sculptures

Sophocles.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Sculptures

Pericles.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Greece, Inscriptions, Pericles, Sculptures, State and military institutions - Diplomatic relations

Homer.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Greece, Homer, Sculptures

The Lion's Terrace, Delos.

Tags: Aegean islands, Art and antiquities, Cyclades, Delos, Greece, Monumental avenue of the Lions (Delos), Sculptures

View of Miaoulis square at Hermoupolis. On the left, the town hall.

Tags: Aegean islands, Andreas Miaoulis, Architecture and built environment, Cyclades, Ermoupolis (Syros), Greece, Greek War of Independence, Miaoulis square (Syros), Sculptures, Syros, Town halls, Views

Frontispiece. Dance scene before the altar of goddess Artemis.

Tags: Costume - Hats and headwear, Cultural activities, Dance, Dancers, Frontispieces, Greece, Human types, Imaginary representations - Reconstructions, Music, Musical instruments, Musicians, Religious practices, Sacrifices, Sculptures, Shoes and footwear, Women

The “man and dog” Stele of Alxenoror, or Stele of Orchomenos, today housed in the Archaeological Museum of Athens.

Tags: Alxenor Stele / Stele of Orchomenos, Art and antiquities, Boeotia, Central Greece, Funerary steles, Greece, Orchomenos, Reliefs, Sculptures

Pagodas at the kingdom of Tonkin (Vietnam). In the foreground, gymnosophists and priests in ceremonial dress doing their prayers.

Tags: Ancient temples, Animals, Costume - Hats and headwear, Gymnosophists, Human types, Kingdom of Tonkin, Priests, Religious practices, Sculptures, Social sphere and everyday life, Tonkin, Vietnam

View of the walls of Konya. An ancient statue and decorative features from diverse historical periods had been incorporated into the walls, in accordance with a practice distinctive of Seljuk architecture.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Asia Minor, Human types, Konya / Iconium, Reliefs, Sculptures, Seljuk architecture, Seljuk monuments, Turkey, Views, Walls, Walls of Konya

1, 3: Votive offerings, possibly from Kerameikos cemetery: Urn with relief, funerary stele. 2. Statue of Nike.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Cemeteries, Central Greece, Funerary monuments, Greece, Kerameikos, Reliefs, Sculptures, Urns, Votive offerings / Ex-voto

Antiquities from Athens: 1. Ionic column capital from the inner peristyle of the Propylaea of the Acropolis. 2. Drawings of the entablature, side view and section of a column capital from the inner peristyle of the Acropolis Propylaea. Plan of Ionic column, drawings of the pedestal. 3. Inscriptions on a metope found in the ancient Agora of Athens.

Tags: Acropolis of Athens, Ancient agorae, Art and antiquities, Athens, Attica, Central Greece, Columns / Pillars, Greece, Inscriptions, Ionic order, Propylaea of the Acropolis, Reliefs, Sculptures

Vatican Nile.

Tags: Allegories, Art and antiquities, Italy, Roman antiquities, Rome, Sculptures, Vatican Nile (statue)

Arch from the archaeological site of Philippoi and details of the monument. Golden Gate in Thessaloniki and details of the monument. From: Héctor d'Espouy, Fragments d’architecture antique..., Paris, 1897-1925.

Tags: Architecture and built environment, Art and antiquities, Golden Gate – Gate of Axios (Thessaloniki), Greece, Héctor d'Espouy, Macedonia, Philippoi, Sculptures, Thessaloniki

View of Epidaurus.

Tags: Animals, Architecture and built environment, Argolis, Boats and ships, Corinthian gulf, Dogs, Epidaurus, Goats, Greece, Gulfs and bays, Houses, Human types, Peloponnese, Professions, Sculptures, Shepherds

Statue from Memphis, Egypt.

Tags: Art and antiquities, Egypt, Egyptian monuments, Human types, Memphis, Natural environment, Pharaonic monuments, Sculptures

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