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Marble bust of the emperor Hadrian wearing military dress

This portrait bust was found at the Villa Adriana, the Roman…
Silver piastra of Pope Clement X

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries the popes used t…
Bronze statue of a young woman

This half life-sized bronze figure is said to have been foun…
Capodimonte porcelain ewer and basin, made by Giuseppe Gricci

The factory was founded by King Charles III of Naples (1716-…
The Muse Casket

This unusual casket from the Esquiline treasure was probably…
The Projecta Casket

This casket is one of the most important and magnificent exa…
Pottery oil lamp

This mould-made lamp belongs to a type known as a volute-lam…
Anthony van Dyck, Self-portrait, an etching

This famous self-portrait captures the immediacy of an autog…
John Robert Cozens, Lake Nemi, a watercolour

This lake in the Alban Hills, south of Rome, is formed by th…
Michelangelo, Elevation of the lower storey of the Julius tomb and Pieces of the lower storey of the Julius tomb, pen an

Michelangelo (1475-1564) was commissioned to create a monume…
Raphael, Study for the Phrygian Sibyl, a drawing

Raphael began this study with an underdrawing using a stylus…
Marble pilaster capitals from the Pantheon in Rome

These marble capitals come from the interior of the Pantheon…
List of Marbles discovered by Gavin Hamilton in the ruins near Rome since 1769

During the eighteenth century, visitors on the Grand Tour ma…
The Townley Discobolos, a drawing by an unknown artist

The Discobolos ('discus-thrower'), is a marble copy of a los…
Three gold coins

In the thirteenth century, for the first time in hundreds of…
Ribbed loutrophoros, attributed to the Painter of the Louvre Bottle

Gnathia ware is named after the Apulian town of Gnathia (Egn…
Parmigianino, The Entombment, an etching

Before moving to Rome in 1524, the young Parmigianino (1503/…
Maiolica plate with the arms of Pietro Bembo

The development in Italy by around 1500 of istoriato ('story…
Letter to Charles Townley from Thomas Jenkins concerning the Discobolos

Thomas Jenkins (1722-98) was born in Rome. He studied painti…
Brass sestertii of Hadrian showing Personifications of Africa and Spain

Hadrian spent many years travelling extensively throughout h…
Brass sestertius of Hadrian

All Roman emperors found it vital to stay popular with the s…
Bronze as of Antoninus Pius, showing Britannia

Britannia, the personification of Britain, first appears on …
Gold aureus of emperor Caligula

This coin was made in Rome in the first century AD, but was …
Gold aureus showing Trajan's Column

The monumental column of the emperor Trajan (AD 98-117) is o…
Gold aureus with a facing portrait of Postumus

The use of the portrait is the most persistent and usually t…
Gold saluto of Charles I of Anjou, king of Naples and Sicily

The French prince, Charles of Anjou took power in the kingdo…
A 'Queen's Vase'

This vase is one of a group of oinochoai (jugs used for pour…
Brown glass jug

The jug is decorated with embedded white blobs. Most vessels…
Green glass bowl

During the reign of the first Roman Emperor, Augustus (27 BC…
Head from a marble statue of Vespasian

This naturalistic portrait of the emperor Vespasian (reigned…
Marble sarcophagus with a Bacchic scene

The size of this sarcophagus indicates that it was probably …
Portrait of the Greek philosopher Antisthenes

Antisthenes (about 450-370 BC) came to be regarded as the fo…
Pottery lamp in the form of a ship

This ornate, mould-made lamp could accommodate up to twenty …
Brass candlestick inlaid with silver and gold

Small candlesticks of this type were made in some quantity i…
Engraved sheet brass tray, inlaid with silver

This silver-inlaid brass tray may have been exported to Euro…
Carved agate bowl

This beautiful oval bowl may have been made in the Miseroni …
Three tin-glazed earthenware chocolate cups

One of these chocolate cups can definitely be traced to the …
Albrecht Dürer, Virgin and Child with a monkey, an engraving

The poses of the Virgin and Child reflect the classicism and…
Gentile Bellini, A Turkish Woman, a drawing

The Venetian government sent Gentile Bellini (about 1435-150…
Hans Burgkmair, Lovers Surprised by Death, a woodcut

The image of Death became widespread in late medieval Christ…
Hendrik Goudt, Aurora, an engraving

The signed print is a remarkably close transcription of Elsh…
Marble statue of the emperor Hadrian, in Greek dress

The Roman emperor Hadrian is shown here in the himation (a G…
Brass sestertius with the omen of the great sow

The Romans traditionally dated the foundation of their city …
Gold aureus consecration coin of Septimius Severus

Septimius Severus (reigned AD 193-211) was coincidentally th…
Chalkidian black-figured column-krater, attributed to the Inscription Painter

The front of this column- krater has a scene showing a four-…
Faience flask

This is one of a pair of vessels found in the Isis tomb of t…
Marble sarcophagus showing the Twelve Labours of Hercules

The front of this sarcophagus shows Hercules performing five…
Military horse trapping inscribed with the name of Pliny the Elder

Cnaeus Plinius Secundus, or Pliny the Elder (AD 23/4-79), th…
Jacques Callot, Battle Scene, an etching

Callot's etchings of The Miseries and Sufferings of War are…
Michelangelo Buonarroti, Christ on the Cross,a drawing

This beautiful black chalk drawing shows the crucified and l…
Bronze coin of Augustus and Agrippa, with pig's trotter appendage

This coin was produced at the town of Colonia Nemausus, anci…
Gold aureus of emperor Claudius

For the ancient Romans, Britain was on the edge of the known…
Gold pendant with designs copied from a Kushan coin and a Roman coin

Although, at first sight, this pendant appears to be a singl…
Roman coins reused as weights in an Anglo-Saxon balance

Gold and silver coins have an intrinsic value because they a…
Silver radiate coins with Roman Legionary badges: Pegasus and Capricorn

The organization of the Roman army had much in common with m…
Black-figured amphora

The Stymphalian birds were so numerous that they were destro…
Black-figured amphora (wine-jar) signed by Exekias as potter and attributed to him as painter

Penthesilea brought her Amazon warriors to help the Trojans …
Black-figured lip cup, attributed to the Phrynos Painter

This black-figured lip cup shows the birth of the goddess At…
Black-figured neck-amphora, signed by the potter Andokides; attributed to the painter Psiax

Andokides was one of the most successful potters of late six…
Black-figured plate, attributed to the painter Psiax

The archer on this plate wears a flapped and pointed cap, pa…
Black-figured water-jar (hydria) with a scene at a fountain-house

Fountain-house scenes like this one show vases of this shape…
Black-glaze mug, showing Perseus beheading the Gorgon Medusa

The hero Perseus rashly promised to acquire the head of Medu…
Calyx-krater (wine bowl)

The vase shows a kithara -player mounting a platform, watche…
Lekythos showing Odysseus escaping from Polyphemos' cave

On his journey home from Troy, Odysseus found himself trappe…
Marble portrait of Julius Caesar

The head has been burnt and is badly damaged, with the prope…
Mosaic glass plate

This large polychrome plate of mosaic glass heralds the star…
Painted terracotta cinerary urn with a man on the lid

The young man depicted on the lid of this urn wears a white …
Red-figured cup, attributed to the Brygos Painter

Scenes of symposia were naturally a popular subject for the …

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