A collection of artifacts from across Europe, spanning its diverse histories and cultures. This category reflects the continent’s role as a cradle of art, innovation, and conflict through the ages.
This Roman marble captures a moment of violent motion: portraying a satyr and nymph, where she twists away from him in resistance. The bodies are tightly interlocked, creating a composition full of tension, movement, and unease.
This marble gable figure once formed part of the sculptural decoration of the Hieron in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace.
A fragmentary draped marble statue that preserves the torso of a standing female figure, wrapped in deeply carved layers of drapery. Although the head, arms, lower legs, and feet are missing, the surviving body still gives a strong impression of elegance and dignity.
A marble torso from Delos that preserves only part of a female figure, yet still conveys much of the statue’s original impact. The soft modeling of the abdomen, hips, and thighs gives the body a natural, sensuous presence..
A marble grave statue that turns the quiet pose of a female servant into the whole meaning of the work. Made in Attica, Greece, around 330–320 BC.
Behold an Attic funerary statue that turns a simple gesture into the whole emotional center of the work. Dated to about 360 BCE, it shows a young mourning girl with her head resting on her hand.
This marble figure of Hygeia, daughter of Asclepius, survives in a fragmentary but still remarkably clear form. Though the head and arms are lost, the statue retains the quiet authority expected of a healing goddess.
This marble statue of Cybele presents the goddess as an enthroned and highly formal divine presence. Seated frontally, wrapped in heavy drapery, and crowned with a tall turreted headdress..
This marble head belonged to a sphinx that crowned the roof of the Temple of Aphaia on Aegina, probably at one of the temple’s corners, and is usually dated to about 500–490 BCE.