Venus
Apollo and Artemis slaying the children of Niobe. At the top of this decorative marble roundel, Apollo and Artemis are shooting Niobe's children with deadly arows to avenge their mother, the goddess Leto. Niobe had insulted Leto by claiming to be a superior mother.
Diadoumenos, statue of an athlete tying a victor's ribbon around his head.
Roman, 1st century AD, version of a Greek original of about 440BC from Italy.
Known as the Farnese Diadoumenos, this work is a marble copy of a bronze original, sometimes attributed to the Greek sculptor Pheidias.
Greek warrior
Marble statue of Apollo holding a kithara.
Molossian Hound.
Molossian hounds were related to the modern mastiff and were famously fierce. They were often used as guard dogs by herdsmen and for household security in cities. Aristophanes, the fifth-century comic dramatist, speaks of the hazards of trying to get past a doorway guarded by a Molossian dog, while the infamous Athenian statesman and general Alcibiades is said to have kept one with a docked tail.
This dog once wore a collar. Its gaping jaws show powerful teeth, but the relaxed pose and upward gaze give it an obedient air. Five other versions of this sculpture, all found near Rome, are thought to be Roman copies of a lost Greek bronze original, probably of the 2nd century BC. This version is sometimes known as the 'Jennings Dog,' because it was once owned by Henry Constantine Jennings (1731-1819), who brought it in Rome in the 1750s.
Bronze statuette of a huntsman, probably representing Alexander the Great.
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