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  Worldvisitguide > Places > Metropolitan Museum... > Etruscan and Roman Antiquities > Art from Southern Italy... > Lunette with Nereid...
Lunette with Nereid riding Triton
Artist : Anonyme


Date : approx. between 100 and 125

Material : Marble
Acquisition : Purchase (1993)
Dynastie des Antonins
Item 101 on 102
Etruscan and Roman Antiquities
Sculpture (Relief)

Vitrine : V08

Area related
Empire romain


Description   

The relief must have been one of a series that decorated a public building or perhaps a grand funerary monument. The iconography derives from a passage in Iliad that describes the Nereid Thetis, mother of the hero Achilles, or other Nereids carrying newly forged armor to her son.
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Kunst der Gründerzeit
Tritons and Naiads from the Villa Albers in Berlin-Steglitz
Tritonen und Najaden aus der Eingangshalle der Villa Albers in Berlin-Steglitz
Thème mythologique
Max Klinger
Dimensions : 99 cm x 195 cm
from 1884 to 1885

Ephesus Museum :
Hall of hillside houses
Triton
Statuette
Anonyme

Louvre Museum :
Galerie Campana III
Hydrie à figures noires
Hydrie
Figures noires
Peintre du Louvre F 51
near 540 B.C.

Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Art from Southern Italy and Sicily
Figure of swimming Triton
Fragment de skyphoi
Dynastie Julio-Claudienne
Anonyme
near 50 B.C.

Place de la Concorde :
La Fontaine des Fleuves
Tritons
Statue
Fontaines et bassins
Jean-Jacques Elshoecht (Carle Elshoecht), Louis-Parfait Merlieux et Antonin-Marie Moine
from 1835 to 1840
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