Cortile del Belvere -- and beyond -- Ancient Graeco-Roman Statuary in the Vatican Collection

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Emperor Claudius as Ares, god of war (41-54 AD)	Torso di Giovane con testa dell'Hermes di Policleto	Roman copy of a 5th C. AD Hermes by the Greek sculptor Polykleitos	RomeOct08 332.jpg
RomeOct08 333.jpg	RomeOct08 681.jpg	Hercules, Vatican Museum	Cortile ottagonale del Belvedere, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum
Octagonal Courtyard, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum	Apollo Belvedere (Pythian Apollo)	The Apollo Belvedere was found in 1489	The god Apollo has just loosed an arrow at his enemy, the Python of Delphi
Marble copy of a bronze original by Leochares, 350-325 BC	RomeOct08 458.jpg	RomeOct08 461.jpg	RomeOct08 463.jpg
RomeOct08 465.jpg	Sarcophagus with a statue of the Personification of the Tigris River	Personification of the Tirgis River, Museo Pio-Clementino (inv 168)	Personification of the Tirgis River, Museo Pio-Clementino
Figure on the sarcophagus with the Personification of the Tigris River	Laocoön Group, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum	A Trojan priest, Laocoön had attempted to warn against the accepting the Trojan Horse	As punishment, Laocoön and His Sons were killed by a snake sent by the gods supporting the Greeks
"Do not trust the Horse, Trojans Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts." Virgil's Aeneid	Equo ne credite, Teucri Quidquid id est, timeo Danaos et dona ferentes	Detail of Laocoön and the head of the serpent	Lacoön and His Sons, attributed to the Rhodian sculptors Agesander, Athenodoros, and Polydorus, ca 40 BC
A son of Laocoön struggling against the serpent	Laocoön and his Sons was rediscovered in 1506 near Nero's Golden House	Statue of a dog, Roman Imperial period, Pio-Clementino (inv 897)	Statue of a dog, Roman Imperial period, Pio-Clementino (inv 897)
RomeOct08 490.jpg	RomeOct08 492.jpg	Hermes (Belvedere Antinous) Museo Pio-Clementino	Hadrianic copy of a bronze Hermes by Praxiteles
RomeOct08 497.jpg	RomeOct08 499.jpg	Herakles (Hercules) Pio-Clementino (inv 901)	Herakles (Hercules) Pio-Clementino (inv 901)
Herakles (Hercules) Pio-Clementino (inv 901)	RomeOct08 503.jpg	RomeOct08 505.jpg	RomeOct08 506.jpg
RomeOct08 508.jpg	RomeOct08 509.jpg	Venus Felix, Museo Pio-Clementino	Venus with her son Cupid, Museo Pio-Clementino
Detail of Venus Felix, Museo Pio-Clementino	RomeOct08 513.jpg	Male torso, Roman (Flavian) Pio-Clementino (inv 937)	Male torso, Roman (Flavian) Pio-Clementino (inv 937)
Male torso, Roman (Flavian) Pio-Clementino (inv 937)	Male torso, Roman (Flavian) Pio-Clementino (inv 937)	The Greek boxer Kruegas by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino	The Greek boxer Cruegas of Epidamnos by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino
The Greek boxer Cruegas of Epidamnos by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino	Creugas was killed during the games at Nemea ca 400 BC by Damozenos (Damoxenos)	Greek boxer Damoxenos of Syracuse who killed Creugas with an illegal move, also by Antonio Canova	Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova, 1801
Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino	Hermes Ingenui, 2nd C. Roman copy of 5th C. BC - Museo Pio-Clementino	Athena, Roman Imperial Era, Pio-Clementino	RomeOct08 534.jpg
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RomeOct08 546.jpg	Ancient replica of the Apoxyomenos of Lysippos, Museo Pio-Clementino	Apoxyomenos discovered in 1849 in Trastevere	Apoxyomenos - "the scraper" - showing an athlete scraping the grime from his body with a strigil
RomeOct08 552.jpg	Female-headed winged sphinx, Vatican Museum	Museo Chiaramonti founded by Pope Pius VII Chiaramonti and contains about 1000 Roman sculptures	Museo Chiaramonti was organized in 1807 by Antonio Canova (and can handle an upgraded presentation)
Roman busts in the Museo Chiaramonti, Vatican Museum	RomeOct08 556.jpg	RomeOct08 557.jpg	Portrait of Gaius or Lucius Caesar (20BC-4AD) (inv 1228)
Hercules and Telephus, Roman copy, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1314)	RomeOct08 563.jpg	Hermes, Roman copy - Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1)	Dionysos with a young satyr, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1375)
Dionysos with a young satyr, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1375)	Museo Chiaramonti	Ganymede wearing the Phyrgian cap, Vatican Museum	Ganymede and Zeus - Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1376)
Γανυμήδης - Roman Imperial Era, Museo Chiaramonti	Statue of Ganymede with markings where his fig leaf was removed, 3rd C. AD (inv 1871)	Ganymede with Zeus in eagle-form, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1867)	Old woman, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1392)
Early Hellenistic Silen (center), Roman (Trajan) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1441)	Statue of Eros Bending His Bow, ca 330 BC copy of the bronze by Lysippus	Statue of Eros Bending His Bow, Museo Chiaramonti (inv. 1509)	Statue of Eros Bending His Bow, Museo Chiaramonti (inv. 1509)
Statue of the Emperor Tiberius, 1st C. AD	Statue of the Emperor Tiberius, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1511)	Statue of a youth, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1512)	Statue of a youth, Roman, 3rd C. AD
Statue of a Young Boy, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1512)	Statue of the Emperor Claudius (41-54AD) Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1505)	Hermes, Roman-Hadrianic, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1576)	RomeOct08 595.jpg
RomeOct08 598.jpg	Apollo, Roman (Claudius) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1765)	Dionysos, Roman copy - Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1763)	Youth with the head of Caracalla, Roman, Museo Chiaramonte (inv 1849)
Dionysos (Bacchus) Roman (Claudius-Nero) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1934)	Head of Oceanus, 2nd C. AD, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1924)	Leading Satyr, Roman (Flavian) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1951)	RomeOct08 611.jpg
Hellenistic male torso (Satyr pouring win) Museo Chiaramonti (inv 1940)	Torso of Herakles, Roman, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 2131)	Main with raised arm, Roman 2nd C. AD, Museo Chiaramonti (inv 2150)	Return to the Museo Pio-Clementino after dark
Laocoön Group, Museo Pio-Clementino	Laocoön Group, Museo Pio-Clementino	Detail of one of the sons of Laocoön	Perseus with the Head of Medusa by Antonio Canova
The Greek boxer Cruegas of Epidamnos by Antonio Canova, Museo Pio-Clementino	Apollo Belvedere, Museo Pio-Clementino	Sala degli animale, Museo Pio-Clementino, Vatican Museum	Mithras killing a steer, Roman 2nd C. AD, Pio-Clementino (inv 437)
RomeOct08 642.jpg	Belvedere Torso, 1st. C. BC - Vatican Museum	Belvedere Torso, Vatican Museum	Belvedere Torso by Apollonius 1st C. BC, Museo Pio-Clementino
Antinoüs, the lover of Emperor Hadrian, who elevated him to the god Osirantinoos after his death	Gilded bronze statue of Hercules, 2nd C, Sala Rotonda	Gilded bronze statue of Hercules from the Theater of Pompey, 2nd C	RomeOct08 667.jpg
RomeOct08 671.jpg	RomeOct08 673.jpg	Augusto, Roman, Museo Pio-Clementino (inv 191)	Augusto, Romano, Sala a Croce Greca