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This panel depicts a miracle of Saint Anthony: the conversion of a heretic when he realised that a hungry mule refrained from eating a basket of barley with a consecrated Host on it. Sculpture is used [+]
The earliest documentary reference to this painting appears in the 1772 inventory of the Palace of the Buen Retiro, in which the setting is attributed to Viviano Codazzi (1603/4-1672) and the figures [+]
The composition appears to be copied from an Antique frieze, as the limbs of some of the figures are abruptly terminated, as if to show the breaks in a piece of ancient sculpture, for example the righ [+]
This sculpture depicts one of Zeus’s nine daughters, considered in Greek mythology to protect and inspire the arts and sciences, including poetry, music, comedy, tragedy, dance and history. This Muse [+]
An ivory Christ with copper arms that were probably added at a later date. The cross consists of various pieces of rock crystal joined by metal rods covered with painted parchment. The clasps are of e [+]
The present head, to which the bust was added in the eighteenth century, probably belonged to one of the statues of captured Dacians (from Dacia, the region to the West of the Black Sea) in Trajan’s F [+]
Numerous portraits of Constantine of this type were produced to mark his victory over Maxentius at the Battle of the Milvian Bridge in 312 A. D. Coins of the period depict him as invictus (unconquerab [+]
This portrait of Hadrian (117-138 AD) does not follow a specific classical model, freely interpreting elements such as the curls of his hair and his expression. It may have belonged to Queen Christina [+]
This marble statue and other seven more (E000068, E000041, E000040, E000062, E000061, E000038, E000037) were unearthed in about 1500 in Hadrian´s Villa at Tivoli, where the decorated the stage of the [+]
This poorly preserved Roman copy of a Greek original from around 290 b.c.e. belongs to a rather irregular group of five Roman copies of a scupture baselessly identified with Lycurgus of Sparta. It pre [+]
The late Hellenistic relief of The Apotheosis of Homer in the British Museum in London includes a muse almost identical to this one at the entrance to a grotto, attentively listening to the lyre music [+]
This marble statue and other seven more (E000068, E000041, E000040, E000061, E000038, E000069, E000037) were unearthed in about 1500 in Hadrian´s Villa at Tivoli, where the decorated the stage of the [+]
This figure was restored in the seventeenth century or later to take the form of a young orator holding a scroll in his right hand. He wears an ornate toga with a horizontal contabulatio across the ch [+]
This baboon was acquired by the Marquis of El Carpio in Rome, from an unidentified source. A drawing in the Carpio album indicates that missing parts were added. He sits with his legs flexed and his t [+]
This statue and its pair (E00414) were found in the area of the Egyptian sanctuaries at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli, near Rome. Cardinal Camillo Massimo (1620-1677), their first owner following their re [+]
A copy of the famous Hellenistic bronze —there is a Roman copy in the Capitolino Museum in Rome— representing a nude boy pulling a thorn out of his foot. The soft modeling, orderly arrangement of his [+]
In her left hand Melpomene, Muse of Tragedy, holds one of the masks worn by actors in the ancient world as their principal attribute. Both the type of clothing, a mantle and tunic, and the pose are ha [+]
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