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Glass and bronze flask, Roman Syria, 1st-2nd century AD

from The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

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Eros playing the panpipes. Hellenistic period / Place of discovery : Episcopi / Molded clay, terracotta; vent hole on back; white glaze partly missing, 10.2 cm. .

Winged Eros, seated on a rock, legs crossed, wearing a short chiton and a large crown. He is holding a panpipes (syrinx), which he is about to play. According to the style, this casting is from a Greek prototype, but the workmanship indicates that it was made in a local workshop.

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Skeleton of a Scythian queen and her jewelry, found in the Chertomlyk barrow, near Nikopol, Katerynoslavsk Governorate (today Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine)

Headdress and ornaments of the clothes of the priestess Dimitra / Demeter, found in the tomb.

Vasily A. Prokhorov, 1881

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Incantation by John Dixon, after John Hamilton Mortimer

British, 1773

mezzotint on laid paper

National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

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Sextus Pompeius Consulting Erichtho before the Battle of Pharsalus by John Hamilton Mortimer 

British, 18th century

oil on canvas

private collection

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Detail from Athéna by François-Louis Schmied, with Laurent Monnier and the  Baudin enamel workshop 

French, c. 1931

enameled and gilt metal, comprising thirteen panels

private collection x

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C’est Moi Qui Suis Ulysse (Odyssée) by François-Louis Schmied, created to illustrate an edition of Homer’s Odyssey

French, c. 1925

watercolor and pencil on paper

private collection x

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Illustration by François-Louis Schmied for an edition of Aeschylus’ Prométhée Enchaîné (translated by Paul Mazon)

French, 1941

private collection x 

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Illustrations by Henri Matisse for Henri de Montherlant’s Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les crétois) [Pasiphaé, Song of Minos (The Cretans)]. Published in 1944 by Martin Fabiani. National Gallery of Australia: 17a, 18b, 24a, 25a. 

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Illustrations by Henri Matisse for Henri de Montherlant’s Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les crétois) [Pasiphaé, Song of Minos (The Cretans)]. Published in 1944 by Martin Fabiani. National Gallery of Australia: 7a, 15a, 19a, 28a.

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Illustrations by Henri Matisse for Henri de Montherlant’s Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les crétois) [Pasiphaé, Song of Minos (The Cretans)]. Published in 1944 by Martin Fabiani. National Gallery of Australia: 3a, 12b, 14b, 23b, 30a. 

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Illustrations by Henri Matisse from the additional suite of twelve linocuts for Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les crétois). Published in 1944 by Martin Fabiani. National Gallery of Australia: V, VIII, X, XI, XII. 

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Wrapper, title page, and colophon of Henri de Montherlant’s Pasiphaé, Chant de Minos (Les crétois) [Pasiphaé, Song of Minos (The Cretans)]. Illustrations by Henri Matisse. Published in 1944 by Martin Fabiani. National Gallery of Australia.

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Series of three illustrations of Ithaque (Ithaca) by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.

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Series of six illustrations of  Polyphème (Polyphemus) by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.

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Series of four illustrations of Circé (Circe) by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.

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Series of six illustrations of Ulysse et Nausicaa (Ulysses and Nausicaa) by Henri Matisse, for James Joyce’s Ulysses. Published in 1935 by the Limited Editions Club. National Gallery of Australia.