Nota bene:  These are images that we have seen in class but are not available to study in the HC image database.  These do NOT represent all (or even most) of the images that you need to know for the class.

Bronze Age Aegean

• Flying Fish fresco, Phylakopi, Melos
• Knossos, Detail of the Grandstand fresco (an overview is available in the database)
• Akrotiri, House of the Ladies:
• reconstruction of Room 1
• lady (south wall)
• Akrotiri,West House, reconstruction of Room 5
• Akrotiri, Building Beta, Room 1: boxing boys and antelopes in situ; boxing boys ; antelopes
• Akrotiri, Xeste 3, Room 3, reconstruction showing the locations of frescoes on the north and east walls
• Tiryns, Boar Hunt Fresco:
• dogs and boar
• chariot with wome n

 

Etruscan Tomb Painting

Tarquinia, Tomb of the Bulls:

overview of rear wall

overview of Achilles and Troilus

"apotropaic Scenes"

Tarquinia, Tomb of the Augurs:

overview

details of side walls: overview of right wall ; detail of wrestlers

Phersu ; reconstruction drawing of another Phersu with man fighting dog

Tarquinia, Tomb of the Lionesses:

detail of a pair of dancers

side wall: male figure on a kline with an egg in his hand

Tarquinia, Tomb of Hunting and Fishing:

• Overview of rear wall in second chamber
• detail of fishing and man with slingshot ( alt )
• detail of fisher
• diver

Tarquinia,Tomb of the Baron:

• overview of rear wall ( alt small )
• front wall, overview ; detail

Tarquinia,Tomb of the Leopards:

• overview of rear and right lateral walls
• details: banqueter ; banqueters
• detail of flute player

Tarquinia,Tomb of Orcus I and II:

• "Velia Velcha" from Orcus I; detail
• Hades from Orcus II

Vulci, François Tomb:

• Vel Saties
• Execution of Trojan Prisoners
• Vanth

Archaic and Early Classical Greek Painting

• Thermon, Temple of Apollo:
• recontsruction of the entablature
• metopes
• one of the four Pitsa Plaques
• Paestum, Tomb of the Diver: detail of the lid

Pebble Mosaics

• Eretria, House of the Mosaics:
• detail of andron mosaic (Arimaspians vs. griffins)
• antechamber mosaic: sphinxes and panthers

Macedonian Painting

• Vergina, Tomb II, hunting frieze, detail of horseman

Hellenistic Mosaics

• Overview of an "Unswept room" ("asarotos oikos") mosaic:  this mosaic is actually from Rome, 2nd century CE, signed by Heraklitos).  Details are available in the Holy Cross image database.
• Mosaic of Lykourgos and Ambrosia from Delos c.130-88 BC
• Creeping cat mosaic from the House of the Faun, Pompeii
• Mosaic with Nilotic Scene (alt) from the House of the Faun, Pompeii
• Mosaic by Dioskourides of Samos from the so-called House of Cicero, Pompeii (detail)

• Pompeii, House of the Tragic Poet, 'cave canem' mosaic
• Square of the corporations (Piazzale delle Corporazioni), Ostia:  overview of the complex; overview of walkway; mosaic in the office of the shippers of Sullechthum (a town in  N. Africa); mosaic for shippers from Sabratha (also in N. Africa); amphora

Garden Paintings

• Pompeii, House of the Orchard, AD 40-50: Black Bedroom, overview, detail;overview of Bedroom 8; detail of Bedroom 12
• Pompeii, House of Venus Marina (Why is it called the House of Venus Marina?), detail of Mars statue in a garden, garden

• Rome, "House of Livia",shortly after 30 BC, panel painting of Io and Argus; detail;
• House of the Priest Amandus, c.40-50 AD Daedalus and Icarus;
• Odysseus and the Sirens, context unknown, 50-75 AD
• Early Third Style, Pompeii, House of Jason, first quarter of 1st century AD: Jason and Pelias; Pan and Nymphs

Painting of Medea from the House of the Dioscuri, ca.50-79 AD; (alt);Perseus and Andromeda from the same room

Portraits 

• Pompeii, portrait of a woman with pen and tablets, 3rd quarter of 1st century AD
• Pompeii VII 2, 6, portrait of a man and wife (really!), 3rd quarter of 1st century AD

Garden paintings

• Pompeii, House of the Orchard, black bedroom (Other images from the House of the Orchard are available in the image database.)

Wall and Vault Mosaics

• Sperlonga: entrance to the cave; Ulysses (Odysseus) and Polyphemus group, reconstruction;
• Herculaneum:  House of Neptune and Amphitrite, panel of Neptune and Amphitrite (Other images of the House of Neptune and Amphitrite are available in the image database.)
  
• Rome, Santa Costanza,337-351 AD, overview of building; plan and section; interior view; detail of vault mosaic: vintaging putti (erotes); branches, birds and fruit

Iberian Mosaics

• Floor mosaic from Room B of the villa at Marbella (southern coastal Spain); location of Marbella; plan of the Marbella villa
• Geometric mosaic from Italica, 2nd century AD
• Itálica, House of the Planetarium, mid 2nd century AD, mosaic with busts of planetary deities
• Itálica, geometric mosaic with bust of Dionysus, 2nd century AD

Images shown in Student Presentations

• Paintings from Avaris
• The Naval Fresco From Thera
• The Hagia Triada Sarcophagus: one side; another side
• Minoan Frescoes from outside the Knossos Palace: Knossos, House of the Frescoes, Caravanserai; Ayia Triada
  
• The Alexander Mosaic
• The Villa of the Mysteries
  
• Piazza Armerina Mosaics: plan of the villa; mosaics: detail, detail, detail, detail
• Ravenna: the Orthodox Baptistry, overview of dome; detail
• Mosaics of Roman Britain:  Fishbourne: Cupid on Dolphin mosaic; (detail)