Description | English: Title-page vignette with bust of Marcus Tullius Cicero (“Tully”) |
Date | 1751 |
Source | The Scribleriad (https://archive.org/details/b30418690/page/n7/mode/2up) |
Author | H. Grovelot, artist; G Mosley, engraver |
Category Archives: Classical
Amphion Building Thebes
Description | English: Amphion moves stones to build Thebes by the sound of his lyre (which looks like a viola) |
Date | 1655 |
Source | Tableaux du temple des Muses (https://archive.org/details/tableauxdutemple00maro_0/page/n453/mode/2up) |
Author | Abraham van Diepenbeeck |
Agave with the Head of Pentheus
Description | English: Agave with the head of Pentheus. In her right she grasps by the hair the head of her son, in her left a thyrsus capped with leaves and trimmed with floating ribbands. Her head is violently thrown back, and the lower part of the drapery is tossed about as she dances for joy. The woodcut is enlarged, by one-third, from a ‘paste’ in the gem-cabinet of the British Museum. |
Date | 1880 (from an ancient gem) |
Source | Bacchae of Euripides (https://archive.org/details/bacchaeofeuripid00euriuoft/page/72/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
The Tiber
Description | English: “Image of the Tiber River in marble, the work of an excellent artist, in the Vatican garden of the Popes in Rome.” Latina: Tiberis Fluvii simulacrum è marmore excellentis artificis opus, in Vaticano Pontificum viridario Romae. |
Date | 1585 |
Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
Laocoon
Description | English: “Statue of Laocoon, made from marble with wondrous art, in the Pontifical garden, Rome, not as described by Virgil or Pliny but after the description of the Greek Poets.” Latina: Laocoontis signum e marmore mira arte factum in Pontificio viridario, Romae non quale à Virgilio, ac Plinio, sed cuiusmodi à Gracis Poetis describitur. |
Date | 1585 |
Source | Antiqvarvm statvarvm vrbis Romae primvs et secvndvs liber (https://archive.org/details/antiqvarvmstatva121cava/page/n29/mode/2up) |
Author | Giovanni Battista de’Cavalieri |
Phidias at Work on the Parthenon, by L. Alma-Tadema
Description | English: Phidias at Work on the Parthenon, by L. Alma-Tadema, engraved by J. D. Cooper |
Date | 1886 |
Source | Sir L. Alma-Tadema (https://archive.org/details/sirlalmatademaro00zimm/page/2/mode/2up) |
Author | Lawrence Alma-Tadema, painter; James Davis Cooper, engraver |
The Sibyl, by F. S. Church
Description | English: The Sibyl, engraved by Francis Scott King from the painting by Frederick Stuart Church |
Date | 1887 |
Source | Engravings on Wood (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125015065655/page/n63/mode/2up) |
Author | Frederick Stuart Church, painter; Francis Scott King, engraver |
Memento Mori from Pompeii
Description | English: Memento Mori mosaic from Pompeii, as illustrated in an 1887 book |
Date | 1st C. B.C. (printed 1887) |
Source | Arte Pompeiana monumenti scelti (https://archive.org/details/gri_33125008704492/page/n201/mode/2up) |
Author | Anonymous |
The Colosseum in 1598
Aristotle Plays Horsie
By Hans Burgmair. From A Treatise on Wood Engraving, 1839.