IX. Hellenistic Art
The Greek Globalized World
after Alexander the Great
DU1701 Periods of Art History I: from Prehistory to Trajan
Adrien Palladino, M.A., Ph.D.
After Lysippos, Portrait of Alexander the
Great (356-323 BCE), c. 330 BCE
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Alexander the Great on horseback, bronze, 1st century BCE
H: 49 cm; W: 47 cm; D: 29 cm
National Archaeological Museum of Naples, inv. 4996.
The Medici Riccardi Horse Head, c. 350 BCE
bronze and gold, 81 × 95 × 40 cm
National Archaeological Museum of Florence
Detail from the ‘Alexander Sarcophagus’
c. 312 BCE Pentelic marble
İstanbul Archaeological Museum
The ‘Alexander Sarcophagus’, c. 312 BCE, Pentelic marble and
polychromy, found in Sidon, 195 x 318 x 167 cm
İstanbul Archaeological Museum
Portrait of a Hellenistic ruler, marble, Roman copy after a
lost sculpture, probably of the 2nd century BCE
British Museum, London
Statue of a prince or dynast without crown, maybe Attalus II of
Pergamon, bronze, 3rd–2nd centuries BCE, H: 2,20 m
Museo nazionale romano di Palazzo Massimo, Rome
Statuette of a veiled
and masked dancer,
3rd–2nd century BCE,
20.5 × 8.9 × 11.4 cm
Metropolitan Museum,
New York
The Dying Galatian, Roman copy of a lost sculpture, marble,
original in bronze, from c. 230–220 BCE
Musei Capitolini, Rome
Ludovisi Gaul, Roman
copy of a lost bronze,
original from c. 230–220
BCE, H: 2,11 m
Palazzo Altemps, Rome
The silenus Marsyas hanging from a pine
tree, condemned to flaying, marble, H: 2,56
m, 2nd century Roman copy from a bronze
original, Pergamon (?), c. 200 BCE (?)
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Barberini Faun, c. 220 BCE, Roman copy, H: 2.15m
Glyptothek, Munich
Bronze statue of Eros sleeping, 3rd–2nd century BCE
41.9 × 35.6 × 85.2 cm, 124.7 kg
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Glykon, from the original by Lysippos,
Farnese Hercules, Roman copy c. 216 CE,
original 4th century BCE, H: 3,17 m
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
The Three Graces Aglaia (Beauty), Euphrosyne
(Mirth), and Thalia (Abundance), 2nd century
CE, original after the second or first centuries
BCE, 123 x 100 cm
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Raphael, The Three Graces
oil on panel, 17.1 cm × 17.1 cm, 1504–1505
Musée Condé, Chantilly
Farnese Bull, punishment of Dirce, early third
century CE, after an original from the 2nd century
BCE, marble, from the Baths of Caracalla
Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples
Nike (or Victory) of Samothrace, Lartos
and Parian marbles, c. 190 BCE, H: 3.28m
Musée du Louvre, Paris
Proposed Reconstruction by Karl Lehmann
Pergamon altar, reconstruction of the western façade, with frieze panels of the
Gigantomachy and original architectural elements, Pergamon, ca. 170 BCE
Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Antikensammlung
Hagesandros, Athenedoros,
and Polydoros, Laocoon and
His Sons, Marble, Roman
copy after an original from
ca. 200 BCE, found in the
Baths of Trajan, Rome, 1506
Musei Vaticani