A Couple from Pompeii
A new and very large full-figure funerary portrait relief has been excavated in Pompeii, in the necropolis just outside the
A Greek couple in Rome: Agathemerus and Myrtale
The Ashmolean museum in Oxford houses an extraordinary marble funerary portrait relief, depicting a Greek couple from around 100 CE. The
Gods and Myths in Cartari’s 16th Century Imagini
Despite its title, Vincenzo Cartari’s (1502? -1570s?) Images of the Gods (Le imagini degli dei delli antichi, Venice, 1556) was initially published without