Sunday, October 6, 2019

Ancient Roman Marble Reposing in Vienna

Ancient Rome
Gable Fragment from Library of Celsus in Ephesus
AD 113-117
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Sarcophagus Fragment - Dionysiac Scene
AD 150-200
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Sphinx from Roman Egypt
AD 150-200
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

from Hellas: Chorus

Oh, write no more the tale of Troy,
     If earth Death's scroll must be!
Nor mix with Laian rage the joy
     Which dawns upon the free:
Although a subtler Sphinx renew
Riddles of death Thebes never knew.

Another Athens shall arise,
     And to remoter time
Bequeath, like sunset to the skies,
     The splendour of its prime;
And leave, if nought so bright may live,
All earth can take or Heaven can give.

Saturn and Love their long repose
     Shall burst, more bright and good
Than all who fell, than One who rose,
     Than many unsubdued:
Not gold, not blood, their altar dowers,
But votive tears and symbol flowers.

Oh cease! must hate and death return?
     Cease! must men kill and die?
Cease! drain not to its dregs the urn
     Of bitter prophecy.
The world is weary of the past,
Oh might it die or rest at last!

– Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821)

Ancient Rome
Discobolus 
2nd century AD
marble statuette
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Child with Duck
2nd century AD
marble statue
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Dionysus / Bacchus
2nd century AD
marble statue
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Portrait Bust of a Matron
AD 50-75
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Head of a Youth
AD 120-130
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Torso of Eros
2nd century AD
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Aphrodite
1st century BC
marble statue
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Head of Discobolus
2nd century AD
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Torso of Doryphoros
2nd century AD
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Torso of Youth
1st century AD
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna

Ancient Rome
Sarcophagus - Lion Hunt
AD 270-290
marble
Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna