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Editorial The Tenth King of Hell.
Editorial Hercules Gets Cerberus from the Underworld (Charon, the Ferryman of the Styx). Dating: 1645 - 1650. Measurements: h 101 cm ? w 164 cm.
Editorial Idols of Calmucz Zungores Erlik-Han, Religion and Mythology: Idol of Herlick-Han, the devil, the god of the Kalmyk Underworld, Signed: Car?me de F?camp (del.), C. Baquoy (sculp.), Copperplate engraving, no. XVII, after p. 306 (vol. 1), F?camp, Car?me d...
Editorial attributed to Workshop of the Underworld Painter, Greek, Oinochoe, 330/320 BC, earthenware, 11 3/4 x 6 7/8 in. diam.
Editorial Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld.
Editorial A temple ruin with Pythagoras Emerging from the Underworld.
Editorial Psyche gives Venus the jug, Psyche presents to Venus, the goddess of love, a jug she brought into the underworld at Proserpina, Psyche with Venus, Lambertus Suavius (mentioned on object), Southern Netherlands, 1520 - 1567, paper, engraving, h 253 mm ? ...
Editorial Christ's Descent into Limbo, from the Soest Altarpiece, Christ, whose head is missing, stands slightly diagonally to the left on the back of a huddled, crawling monster with its mouth open, with its thick tongue hanging. He holds up the right hand (in ...
Editorial Hercules Gets Cerberus from the Underworld (Charon, the Ferryman of the Styx). Dating: 1645 - 1650. Measurements: h 101 cm ? w 164 cm.
Editorial Aeneas and the Sibyl of Cumae, Aeneas visits, accompanied by his friend Achates, the Sibyl of Cumae to ask her once more the face of to see his father. In the background, seven bulls and sheep are sacrificed on behalf of the Sibille so that she can sta...
Editorial Orpheus plays for Pluto and Proserpina (in box with 43 drawings), non-aggressive, friendly or neutral activities and relationships of Orpheus, Pluto and Proserpina as king and queen of the underworld, Louis Fabritius Dubourg, 1703 - 1775, paper, ink, p...
Editorial Plate 26: Psyche enters the underworld giving an offering to Cerberus, with two elderly women at left, from the Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius.
Editorial Psyche Leaves for the Underworld. Master of the Die (Italian, active c. 1530-1560); after Michiel Coxcie I (Flemish, 1499-1592); in turn, inspired by Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). Date: 1530-1541. Dimensions: 200 x 235 mm (plat...
Editorial Odin in the Underworld. Henry Fuseli; Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825. Date: 1770-1772. Dimensions: 586 ? 444 mm. Brush and gray wash and graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink and red chalk, on cream laid paper. Origin: England.
Editorial Terracotta pomegranate, Classical, 5th?4th century B.C., Greek, Terracotta, Diam.: 3 5/16 in. (8.4 cm), Terracottas, Throughout Greek art and the Greek world, the pomegranate has been associated with funerary beliefs and ritual. The mythological expres...
Editorial Fragment of a limestone relief with standing figure, Late Classical or Hellenistic, 4th?3rd century B.C., Greek, South Italian, Tarentine, Limestone, Overall: 10 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 3 3/8in. (26.7 x 16.5 x 8.6cm), Stone Sculpture, A figure, possibly Orpheus,...
Editorial Fragment of a Vase Depicting Arsinoe II, Ptolemaic Period, Ptolemaic Dynasty, 275?270 B.C.or a bit later, From Egypt, Alexandria region; Probably from Alexandria, Faience, H. 3.8 cm (1 1/2 in.); W. 2 cm (13/16 in.); D. 3 cm (1 3/16 in.), Ptolemaic oino...
Editorial Relief panel showing two baboons offering the wedjat eye to the sun god Khepri, who holds the Underworld sign, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 400?200 BC, From Egypt, Limestone, H. 30.9 cm (12 3/16 in.); W. 39.3 cm (15 1/2 in.); D. 6 cm (2 3/8 in.), In t...
Editorial Marble pillar with snake and wreath, Imperial, 1st?2nd century A.D., Roman, Marble, Pentelic ?, h. 14 5/8 in (37.2 cm), Stone Sculpture, This pillar may be either votive or sepulchral. The snake is both an attribute of the healing god Asklepios, sugges...
Editorial Yakshas Relief, Licchavi period, 8th?9th century, Nepal, Kathmandu Valley, possibly Deopatan, Stone, H. 10 5/8 in. (27 cm); W. 20 1/2 in. (52 cm), Sculpture, Two bearded yakshas crouch in a rocky landscape, marking the threshold between the revealed wo...
Editorial Apulian Red-Figure Volute Krater Fragment, Underworld Painter (Greek (Apulian), active about 340 - 310 B.C.), Apulia, South Italy, about 340 - 330 B.C., Terracotta, 14.6 ? 13.5 cm (5 3/4 ? 5 5/16 in.).
Editorial Apulian Red-Figure Volute Krater Fragment, Underworld Painter (Greek (Apulian), active about 340 - 310 B.C.), Apulia, South Italy, about 340 - 330 B.C., Terracotta, 19.2 ? 21.3 cm (7 9/16 ? 8 3/8 in.).
Editorial Apulian Red-Figure Calyx Krater Fragment, Near Underworld Painter (Greek (Apulian), active about 340 - 310 B.C.), Apulia, South Italy, about 340 - 330 B.C., Terracotta, 9.4 ? 13.3 cm (3 11/16 ? 5 1/4 in.).
Editorial Apulian Red-Figure Calyx Krater Fragment, Underworld Painter (Greek (Apulian), active about 340 - 310 B.C.), Apulia, South Italy, about 330 B.C., Terracotta, 8.6 ? 21.4 cm (3 3/8 ? 8 7/16 in.).
Editorial Odin in the Underworld. Henry Fuseli; Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825. Date: 1770-1772. Dimensions: 586 ? 444 mm. Brush and gray wash and graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink and red chalk, on cream laid paper. Origin: England.
Editorial Psyche Leaves for the Underworld. Master of the Die (Italian, active c. 1530-1560); after Michiel Coxcie I (Flemish, 1499-1592); in turn, inspired by Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). Date: 1530-1541. Dimensions: 200 x 235 mm (plat...
Editorial INFERNO.
Editorial Ceres pleading with Jove for the Return of Prosperpina: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book V.
Editorial The hellmouth, set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'.
Editorial Rape of Persephone.
Editorial Vessel, Seated Deities.
Editorial The Tenth King of Hell.
Editorial Kingdom of Pluto; a view of the underworld with Pluto and Proserpina enthroned at center, surrounded by demons; set design from 'Il Pomo D'Oro'.
Editorial Plate 26: Psyche enters the underworld giving an offering to Cerberus, with two elderly women at left, from the Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius.
Editorial Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpina.
Editorial Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right.
Editorial Terracotta fragment of a votive relief.
Editorial Stygia, Print, Stygian refers to the River Styx of the underworld Hades in Greek mythology.
Editorial Orpheus and Eurydice.
Editorial Jade plaque of a Maya king, Teotihuacan, Mexico, Classic period, 600-900 CE. The scene on this plaque, carved in the " Nebaj style", shows a Maya lord seated on a throne with a smaller figure at his feet. The lord wears earplugs, a large pect...
Editorial Orpheus in the Underworld, around 1610-15 Wood, 27 x 35 cm Inv. 973.
Editorial Mosaic mask, a funerary gift from tomb 160, Tikal, El Peten, Guatemala. It was laid over the face of the dead dignitary to adorn him during his voyage through the Underworld. Jadeite, diopsite, shells, conch-shells, mother of pearl (6th). Height 34.5 c...
Editorial Orpheus playing the lyre before Hades. Red-figured " Underworld crater" (2nd-3rd CE) .
Editorial SERAPIS. Hellenistic God born from the union of Osiris and Apis. Lord of the underworld, medicine and fertility. His cult was of great importance in Rome. HEAD OF SERAPIS. Mitreo (2nd century AD). National Museum of Roman Art. Merida Province of Badajo...
Editorial Door to Hades (underworld), 3rd CE Funeral stele 124 x 127 cm Inv. I 1554.
Editorial Orpheus playing the lyre before Hades in the underworld Monumental southern Italian Greek vase (330 BCE) from Canossa in Apulia, Italy.
Editorial The river Acheron next to the Necromanteion of Ephyra, one of the entries to the Underworld. Charon ferried the dead here across to the Underworld.
Editorial Osiris, god of the Underworld. Bronze figurine from Ashkelon.
Editorial Meanwhile, all is peaceful with the exiles in their abode on the Citrakū?a mountain. Rāma points out its beauties to Sītā – the many varieties of lovely trees and birds, the rocks coloured by gems and minerals, and the Mandākinī river which r...
Editorial Osiris, god of the Underworld. Bronze figurine from Ashkelon.
Editorial Orph?e ramenant Eurydice des enfers Orpheus Leading Eurydice from the Underworld. Date/Period: 1861. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 112.3 cm (44.2 in); Width: 137.1 cm (53.9 in).
Editorial Aeneas and the Sibyl in the Underworld.
Editorial Orpheus and Euridice in the Underworld. Canvas,78 x 78 cm Inv.485.
Editorial INFERNO.
Editorial Book of the Dead for the Singer of Amun, Nany.
Editorial Carvel Vessel with an Underworld Diety (God L), 600-900. Mexico, Yucat?n Peninsula, Maya (Chochol?) style. Earthenware, slip, pigment; overall: 14.7 x 16.1 cm (5 13/16 x 6 5/16 in.).
Editorial Medal Presented to Lo?e Fuller by the French Government: Orpheus at the Entrance to the Underworld (obverse). Marie Alexandre Lucien Coudray (French, 1864-1932). Bronze; diameter: 7 cm (2 3/4 in.).
Editorial Yama and the Underworld.
Editorial Father, Ulysses, Is Dead, Searches for Him in the Underworld, from The Adventures of Telemachus, Book 18. Bartolomeo Pinelli; Italian, 1781-1835. Date: 1808. Dimensions: 480 x 590 mm (sight); 556 x 667 mm (overall). Pen and black ink, with brush and br...
Editorial Psyche Leaves for the Underworld. Master of the Die (Italian, active c. 1530-1560); after Michiel Coxcie I (Flemish, 1499-1592); in turn, inspired by Raffaello Sanzio, called Raphael (Italian, 1483-1520). Date: 1530-1541. Dimensions: 200 x 235 mm (plat...
Editorial Odin in the Underworld. Henry Fuseli; Swiss, active in England, 1741-1825. Date: 1770-1772. Dimensions: 586 ? 444 mm. Brush and gray wash and graphite, with touches of pen and brown ink and red chalk, on cream laid paper. Origin: England.
Editorial Book of the Dead for the Singer of Amun, Nany.
Editorial Ceres pleading with Jove for the Return of Prosperpina: Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book V.
Editorial Rape of Persephone.
Editorial Plate 26: Psyche enters the underworld giving an offering to Cerberus, with two elderly women at left, from the Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius.
Editorial Stela of the Steward Mentuwoser.
Editorial Elderly Man Flanked by Egyptian Gods.
Editorial Orpheus and Eurydice.
Editorial Icon with the Crucifixion.
Editorial The rape of Proserpine by the god of the underworld. Copperplate engraving by W. Walker after an illustration by J. M. Moreau from The Copper Plate Magazine or Monthly Treasure, G. Kearsley, London, 1778.
Editorial Terracotta calyx-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).
Editorial Terracotta lekythos (oil flask).
Editorial Amorini Celebrate the Rape of Proserpina.
Editorial Rape of Persephone with Pluto on horseback at right.
Editorial Terracotta fragment of a votive relief.
Editorial Pluto and Cerberus.
Editorial Deity Face Pendant.
Editorial Fragment of a Vase Depicting Berenike II.
Editorial Terracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water).
Editorial RESHEF.
Editorial OSIRIS.
Editorial Relief depicting rituals and sacred emblems.
Editorial Chalcedony scaraboid in silver ring.
Editorial OSIRIS.
Editorial Fragment of a limestone relief with enthroned couple.
Editorial OSIRIS.
Editorial Silver votive plaque.
Editorial OSIRIS.
Editorial Pendant: hippocamp.
Editorial Fragment of a limestone relief with two standing figures.
Editorial OSIRIS.
Editorial Telemachus Requests Permission from Pluto to Seek His Father in the Underworld. Dated: 1809. Dimensions: sheet: 41.5 ? 57.8 cm (16 5/16 ? 22 3/4 in.). Medium: pen and brown ink with brown and gray wash over graphite on heavy laid paper.
Editorial Hercules Gets Cerberus from the Underworld (Charon, the Ferryman of the Styx). Dating: 1645 - 1650. Measurements: h 101 cm ? w 164 cm.
Editorial Plate 26: Psyche enters the underworld giving an offering to Cerberus, with two elderly women at left, from the Story of Cupid and Psyche as told by Apuleius.
Editorial Orpheus in the Underworld.
Editorial The Fiery Underworld.
Editorial Orpheus in the Underworld.
Editorial The An?stasis (the descent of Christ to the underworld), detail of the frescoes of the vault of the presbytery (wall of the epistle), of the church of Santa Eulalia, XV century, Valdeolea, Cantabria, Spain.
Editorial Aeneas in the Underworld.
Editorial Christ in the Underworld.