The Vatican Museums exhibit a plethora of Greek and Roman sculptures. The antiquities collection of the Vatican had a great influence and provided inspiration to Italian Renaissance artists, among them Michelangelo who was a keen student of the ancient sculptures.
Greek & Roman Sculptures
Belvedere Torso. 1st c. BCE copy of an earlier Greek original from the early 2nd c. BCE.Statue of Laocoön at the Vatican Museum, Italy. 1st century CE Roman copy after a Greek original, Apollo Belvedere. Mid-2nd c. CE. Perhaps a copy of a Greek bronze from mid-4th c. BCE.Apoxyomenos statue. Roman marble copy of Greek bronze by Lysippus, c. 330 BCEStatues of Diana and Diskobolus.Colonna Venus. Variant of the statue type of the Knidian Aphrodite, a work of Praxiteles (364-361 BC).Marble male torso fragment.Hermes (known Las las Belvedere Antinous). Early 2nd c. CD Roman copy of a an original Greek bronze by Praxiteles. Venus Felix. Marble. 180–200 CE. Roman copy of a Greek original.Statue fragment at the Vatican MuseumStatue of Artemis of Ephesus. Probably late 4th c. BCE.The Discobolus (Δισκοβόλος = the disk thrower) statue. Roman copy of a Greek bronze original from around 460–450 BCE.Statue of Barberini Hera at the Vatican. 2nd c. CE. Roman copy of a Greek originalBoy fighting with a goose. Roman copy after a Greek bronze original from ca. 300 BCE.Statue of Dionysus SardanapalusStatue of Antinoos. 2nd c. CE.Guilded bronze statue of Hercules of the Forum Boarium. Apollo Citharoedus with the head of Dionysos. Roman copy of a Greek original from late 5th or early 4th c. BCE.Molossian Hound sculpture
Sculpture highlights from the Vatican museums, Italy.
Portraits of Greek historical figures
Herm with the head of the Greek philosopher, Socrates.Herm with Homer’s portrait as the head. Roman. Possibly a copy of a mid-5th c. Greek original. Homer is the author of Iliad and the Odyssey, two epic poems that kicked off a literary revolution in Iron Age Ancient Greece.Bust of Perikles. Bust of Perikles. Bust of the ancient Greek philosopher Zenon.
Several busts and herms of popular persons from antiquity are sprinkled thought the exhibition halls. Among them a Herm with the head of Socrates, Homer, Pericles, and Zenon.
The Vatican court yard with the Fontana della Pigna.Vatican Museum interior view.The Vatican. View with sculpture by modernist artist, Pomodoro.River god (Arno).
