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Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk

Gods and Heroes: the Influence of the Classical World on Art in the 17th & 18th centuries


Cycladic Figure c 2500 BC

Minoan Bull Leaper c 1500 BC

Sophia Schliemann wearing “Helen’s Jewellery”


Paris and Helen krater c 700 BC

Roman copy of Hellenistic bust of Homer


Heracles from the Parthenon

Small bronze statue of Alexander the Great c 100 BC


Judgement of Paris from Etruria c 550 BC

Arrival of Aeneas in Italy


Augustus of Prima Porta c 25 AD (discovered 1863)

Tiberius sword hilt showing Augustus as Jupiter

Blacas Cameo showing Augustus with aegis breastplate

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Romulus and Remus on the Franks Casket c 700 AD

Siege of Jerusalem from the Franks Casket


Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry c 1410 – tapestry of Trojan War

Mantegna Triumph of Caesar Mantua c 1490


The Parthenon Athens

Artist’s Impression of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus showing surviving sculpture


The Colosseum Rome

The Pantheon Rome


Hera and Zeus on the Parthenon Frieze in the British Museum


Hermes, Dionysus, Demeter and Ares on the Parthenon Frieze

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Athena and Hephaestus on the Parthenon Frieze in the British Museum

Poseidon, Apollo and Aphrodite on the Parthenon Frieze in Athens


Lely Venus – a Crouching Aphrodite

Apollo Roman copy of Hellenistic original


Bellerophon and the Chimera

Perseus beheading Medusa


Theseus and the Minotaur

Jason and the Golden Fleece


The Labours of Heracles – Nemean Lion, Apples of the Hesperides and Erymanthian Boar


Achilles and Penthesilea Odysseus and the Sirens

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Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk Marcus Aurelius

The Regisole


Horse Tamers – Castor and Pollux


Castor and Pollux Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk

The Spinario in bronze (Rome) and marble (British Museum)


Apollo Belvedere – Vatican & Sir John Soane Museum


Capitoline Aphrodite – Venus de Medici

Crouching Aphrodite – Lely Venus

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Capitoline Aphrodite in Rome and Paris


Aphrodite – Venus of Arles

Aphrodite of Menophantos


Aphrodite in the Hermitage

Aphrodite – Venus Felix (Vatican)


Aphrodite – Townley Venuses (British Museum)


Aphrodite – Callipygian Venus


Laocoön – today and former reconstruction

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Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk Idolino, Doryphoros and Hermes


Farnese Heracles and Hermes


Farnese Bull and Nike


Farnese Atlas and Diadumenos


Artemis – Diana of Versailles

Meneleus and Patroclus


Hermes or Cincinnatus (Louvre and Copenhagen)

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Borghese Gladiator and Apolino Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk

Dionysus and a satyr


The Dying Gaul

Paetus and Arria (Ludovisi collection)


Ludovisi Papirius Castor and Pollux


Ludovisi Ares Hermes Dr William Sterling

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Barberini Faun

Portland Vase, formerly Barberini Vase

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Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk Satyr and Hermes from Pompeii


Drunken Satyr and Athletes from Pompeii


Dancing Maidens from Pompeii


Antinous Tyrannicides


Furietti Old and Young Centaurs Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk

Hygeia

Leaning Satyr (Rome)

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Leaning Satyrs from Munich and St Petersburg

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