Art Egypt & Greece & Rome
The Role of Music in Ancient Art
Musical Traditions in Ancient Civilizations, Art Reflecting the Sounds of the Past
Travel back in time to discover how Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome celebrated music through their art. These timeless works reveal the cultural significance of music in early civilizations.
Arte Antica. Corno potorio, bronzo, tomba Jàszberény Cseròhalom, Ungheria, fine III secolo, Janos Muzem, Szolnok.
Arte Egitto.
Arte Egitto. Arpa curva. 1981-1975 a.C., 37 cm, wood, paint, gesso, linen fabric, Thebes - Twelfth dynasty Egyptian, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Arte Egitto. Bassorilievo della tomba Pa-atem-em-heb. fine XVIII dinastia.
210. Arte Egitto. Decoration from the Room of the Harps, east tomb, Byban el Molouk, Thebes, from Descriptions of Egypt by Edmonde Francois Jomard, published 1809-22. peg
Arte Egitto. Dancers with instruments. 1353-1336 BCE, Hermopolis, 24 x 37 x 3.5 cm, limestone, paint, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Arte Egitto. Dancing Pan, 350-500 a. C. Egypt, Coptic period, limestone with traces of red polychromy, MET New York
210. Arte Egitto. Two musicians, from the tomb of Rekhmire, New Kingdom (wall painting) Egyptian 18th dynasty.
Arte Egitto. Egyptian lute players. Fresco found in Thebes, from the tomb of Nebamun, a nobleman in the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt (c. 1350 BC).
210. Arte Egitto. English School without date, chromolithograph.
Arte Egitto. Hapiu-s female musicians. 380-343 a.C, limestone, 27,3 cm, Cleveland Art Museum
Arte Egitto. Limestone servant statue from old kingdom tomb of courtier Nykauinpu depicting musicians. Dynasty 5, Giza Egypt
Arte Egitto. Yuny and his wife Renenutet holding a cymbal. 1294-1279 a.C., 54 x 73 cm , limestone, paint, Matropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Arte Egizia. Suonatrice d-arpa angolare. terracotta, XIX dinastia, Museo del Cairo
210. Arte Egitto. Interpretation of a fresco from the royal tomb in Thebes depicting harp players, from Manners and Customs of the Ancient Egyptians, 1837, John Gardner Wilkinson 1837, colour lithograph.
Arte Etrusca. Cippo in calcare, musici in rilievo. 490-470 a.C. origine Chiusi, Toscana, 52x34x36 cm, British Museum, Londra
Arte Etrusca. Flautista disteso su triclivio. 400-375 a.C. bronzo, 5 cm, Cleveland Art Museum
Arte Etrusca. Fragment of a krater. Attribuito a Adolphseck Painter (active ca. 385-ca. 375 b.C.) 380-370 b.C., 8 x 15 cm ceramic, red figure ,origin Apulia (Italia), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Arte Etrusca. Painted plaque ca. 470 b.C., 110 x 52 cm, terracotta; painted school-Etrusco, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Arte Etrusca. Suonatore di lira disteso. 400-375 a.C., bronzo, Cleveland Art Museum.
Arte Etrusca. Suonatrice di aulòs, particolare del cratere a volute del Pittore delle Carnee., V sec. a. C.
Arte Grecia. Anonimo (Cypro) Suonatore di lira. 575–550 a.C., 45.7 x 23 cm, limestone, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Arte Grecia. Black-figured trumpeter, plate attributed to the painter Psiax, ca 500 a.C. British Museum, London
Arte Grecia. Cartere-decorato.-copia-del-XIX-sec-autore-svizzero-ignoto,-6,4x9,6-cm,-Cleveland-Museum-
Arte Grecia. Cratere con una giovane donna che suona il timpano. origine Apulia, Italia, 375-350 a.C. Museo Antichita? Torino
Arte Grecia. Cratere, scena musicale. 470-460 a.C., terracotta, 42x41, Cleveland Art Museum
Arte Grecia. Curti Painter (active ca. 450-420 b.C.) Dionysos with satyr and maenad; death of Orpheus , 30 x 25.2 cm dia., red-figure terracotta, origin Attica, Harvard Art Museum, Boston-side A
Arte Grecia. Curti Painter (active ca. 450-420 b.C.) Dionysos with satyr and maenad; death of Orpheus, 30 x 25.2 cm dia., red-figure terracotta, origin Attica, Harvard Art Museum, Boston- side B
Arte Grecia. Donna con timpano. 1050-700 a.C. terracotta, origine Cipro, Museo Antichità Torino
Arte Grecia. Double - flute-player and draped young man. From the cabinet of sir William Hamilton, England
Arte Grecia. Eros suona l-arpa e serve una donna. 330 ca a.C, 28x12 cm, terracotta smaltata, Cleveland Art Museum
Arte Grecia. Exekias (active 540-520 b.C.) Vessel, Apollo playing a kithara. ca. 530-520 b.C., 40 x 28.3 dia. cm, black-figure terracotta, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Arte Grecia. Leagros Group (active ca. 525-500 b.C.) Hermes, Apollo playing a kithara, Dionysos and woman. vessel, 31.8 cm, figure terracotta, MET New York.
Arte Grecia. Marathon painter (active ca. 500-480 a.C.) Maenads dancing and playing a crotala before image of Dionysos. 500 - 475 a.C. terracotta, 14,6 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Arte Grecia. Figuration of a zither player, detail from the so-called 'Boston throne' (doubtful authenticity) marble, 470-460 b.C. , 96 cm, Fine Arts Museum, Boston, Pierce Foundation
Arte Grecia. Musicisti
Arte Grecia. Pelike (Storage Jar) Art Institute of Chicago
Arte Grecia. Plate by the Painter Psiax. ca 520 B. C. fried clay, diameter 21,5 cm.
Arte Grecia. Terpsichore and Melousa (amphora) Peleus Painter (active 450-420 BCE) ca. 440 BCE, 58.4 cm, painted red figure pottery. British Museum, London.
Arte Grecia. Terracotta amphora Berlin Painter (attributed), ca. 490 a.C., 41.5 cm, terracotta, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Arte Grecia. Terracotta figure, lyre playing female votary. origin Cyprus, Cantor Arts Center - Stanford University, California.
Arte Grecia. Unknown, Player of aulos in Bacchic scene. vessel 6th cntr before. Christ., 26.4 cm, black-figure terracotta, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Arte Grecia. Unknown. Greek Attic musical contest, with double aulos. ca. 500 b.C., 26.7 cm, black-figure terracotta, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. side A
Arte Grecia. Unknown. Greek Attic musical contest, with double aulos. ca. 500 b.C., 26.7 cm, black-figure terracotta, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York. side B
Arte Grecia. Woman or godness with a tambourine. 620.600 b.C., 23x6,5 cm, terracotta, Kr^ti (Ella?s), British Museum, London
Arte Medio Oriente. Suonatore di strumento a corda, da Susa nel sud Iran, 1500 a.C.
Arte Romana. Amykos Painter (attivo 430- 400 a.C, Lucania) Ithyphallic Silenus playing an aulos and a dancing maenad. vaso dipinto rosso e nero, Museo delle Antichità, Torino
Arte Romana. Cinque figure femminili che danzano. 1° sec d.C. marmo, 99x67 cm, Museo delle Antichita? ,Torino
Arte Romana. Altar of the Lari Augusti. 2 century AD, Lunense marble, From Rome via Arenula (1888), Museo Centrale Montemartini
Arte Romana. Frammenti di sarcofago cristiano, IV secolo, Museo Archeologico Milano
Arte Romana. L'organo nell'antichità. mosaico, I° sec. a.C.
230. Arte Romana. Small female statues of dancers. terracotta, III rd Century B.C, Taranto, National Museum of Antiquities. a
230. Arte Romana. Small female statues of dancers. terracotta, III rd Century B.C, Taranto, National Museum of Antiquities. b
230. Arte Romana. Small teracotta statue of a dancer. early II Century B.C. Taranto, National Museum of Antiquities. b
230. Arte Romana. Small teracotta statue of a dancer. early II Century B.C. Taranto, National Museum of Antiquities. a
230. Art Roman.
Arte Romana. Lucerna romana, in terracotta, a forma di organo
Arte Romana. Menade danzante. copia età di Augusto (27 a.C - 14 d. C) modello attr. a Callimaco, bassorilievo on marmo ritrovato a Roma, Musei Capitolini, Roma
230. Arte Roma. Ephebe playing the lyra. Marble relief of the socalled Boston Throne, 470-450 B.C., Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Arte Romana. Relief with Apollo and Marsyas. Pentelic marble. Hadianic age, from the via del mare, near the church of St. Nicola in Carcere (1938). Museo Centrale Montemartini
Arte Romana. Menadi danzanti. 1° sec d.C, 166x90 cm, marmo, Museo delle Antichita?, Torino
Arte Romana. Mosaic fragment with a bust of Erato. late 2nd-early 3rd century d.C. 70 x 89 cm, mosaic, origin Gerasa, Yale University Art Gallery.
230. Arte Romana. Orfeo. Roma, Catacombe di Marcellino e Pietro, affresco early IV rd century
230. Arte Romana. Painted slabs of the Tomba del Tuffatore, with a banquet scene, 480-470 B.C., National Museum of Paestum, Salerno, Italy.
Arte Romana. Orfeo con la lyra fra gli animali. 1° sec d.C. frammneto di pavimento, origine Sardegna. 258x164 cm, Museo delle Antichita? Torino
Arte Romana. Orfeo incanta gli animali col suono della lyra. IV sec. d.C. rilievo tardoromani, Athen, Byzantine & Christian Museum
230. Arte Romana. Funeral monument of a teenager girl with a lute. Merida, Spain, fl. 2nd Century
Arte Romana. Giovane con flauto. Marmo, !° sec d.C. da originale greco del IV sec a.C., Campidoglio, Roma
Arte Romana. Orpheus enchants the animals with the sound of the lyra. 194 A.D. mosaic, Dallas, Museum of Art.
Arte Romana. Apollo citaredo. Da un originale greco (II sec. a.C.) attribuito a Timarchides.Musei Capitolini di Roma
Arte Romana. Panathenaic amphora with two ephebes and a young girl holding tympanon. 350 a.C., origine Apulia (Italia), Museo Antichita? Torino
Arte Romana. Piastrella - Scena musicale. 1-25 d.C. 47x61 cm, terracotta, Cleveland Art Museum.
Arte Romana. Rilievo bacchico di un sarcofago. 1° sec d.C. marmo lunense, Museo Archeoligico Nazionale, Napoli
240. Arte Romana. Suonatore di aulos. bassorilievo in marmo, particolare sarcofago. Musei Capitolini, Roma
Arte Romana. Sarcofago con scena di banchetto. 2-3° sec, marmo, Museo delle Antichita? di Torino
Arte Romana. Zeus, Hera, Athena, Aphrodite and Apollo. 25 a.C. -14 d.C. 70 x 130 x 5.5 cm, marble, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Usa.
Arte Greca. Amphora of Nola. Musician (Anacreon?)with double flute and lyrewalking to right. (detail) Collection of Greek antiquities from the cabinet of sir William Hamilton,British Museum, London.--
Arte Greca. Apulianpelike. Museo Civico del Castello Ursino, Catania.
Arte Greca. Attic pelike. Eros following Kephalus. Vase, British Museum, London.
Arte Greca. Pittoredi Berlino, Artemis e Apollo. Idria attica,490 a. C ca, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Wien.
Arte Greca. Satyr with double flute, and two maenads dancing. Unidentified vase.
220. Arte Grecia. Attic pelike Double-flute player and athlete with jumping weights. London, British Museum
Arte Romana. Photos restaurato come Apollo citaredo. Da un originale greco di Skopas, IV a.C. Musei Capitolini di Roma.
Arte Romana. Sarcophagus with Apollo and Marsia. Half of the second century AD, Proconnesian marble, From the via della Garbatella (1936) Museo Centrale Montemartini
Strumenti musicali. Scuola Interculturale di Musica, Venezia 1979