Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Mummy Mask of a Woman (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: ca. 130 Culture: Egyptian Category: Sculpture Medium: Plaster, glass, pigment Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 5 3/4 × 6 1/2 × 7 3/4 in. (14.61 × 16.51 × 19.69 cm) Object Number: 2014.187 This beautiful, evocative face is not a true portrait but cast from a mold and individualized with glass eyes and pigment (which even highlights her eyebrows, eyelashes, and nostrils!). The head was originally attached to a mummy board placed over the deceased, an Egyptian tradition dating to the First Intermediate Period (ca. 2000 BC), but the hairstyle dates this example to the reign of Emperor Hadrian (117–138), when Egyptian-grown grain fed the Roman Empire. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12999910

Young Woman in Chiton and Mantle (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: ca. 150 B.C. Culture: Greek Category: Sculpture Medium: marble Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 26 × 11 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (66.04 × 29.21 × 13.34 cm) Object Number: 64.50 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12952135

Young Woman in Chiton and Mantle (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: ca. 150 B.C. Culture: Greek Category: Sculpture Medium: marble Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 26 × 11 1/2 × 5 1/4 in. (66.04 × 29.21 × 13.34 cm) Object Number: 64.50 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12952135

Bucchero Beaker (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 7th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Containers-Vessels Ceramics Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 8 1/2 × 9 in. (21.59 × 22.86 cm) Object Number: 79.16 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15591922

Bucchero Beaker (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 7th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Containers-Vessels Ceramics Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 8 1/2 × 9 in. (21.59 × 22.86 cm) Object Number: 79.16 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15591922

Mirror (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 5th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Metalwork Medium: copper alloy Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 8 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (20.96 × 14.92 cm) Object Number: 78.146 One side of this mirror was polished to create a highly reflective surface while the other was incised with a winged female figure. Though the figure is clothed, the engraver has also shown the outline of her body, including an ornament encircling her thigh. This mirror originally was inserted into a handle made separately, perhaps of wood or bone. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8108227

Mirror (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 5th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Metalwork Medium: copper alloy Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 8 1/4 × 5 7/8 in. (20.96 × 14.92 cm) Object Number: 78.146 One side of this mirror was polished to create a highly reflective surface while the other was incised with a winged female figure. Though the figure is clothed, the engraver has also shown the outline of her body, including an ornament encircling her thigh. This mirror originally was inserted into a handle made separately, perhaps of wood or bone. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8108227

Antefix(?) (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: late 6th - early 5th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Sculpture Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (with base): 14 × 8 1/2 × 3 in. (35.56 × 21.59 × 7.62 cm) Overall (without base): 10 3/4 × 8 1/2 × 3 in. (27.31 × 21.59 × 7.62 cm) Object Number: 80.17 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-55122306

Antefix(?) (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: late 6th - early 5th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Sculpture Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (with base): 14 × 8 1/2 × 3 in. (35.56 × 21.59 × 7.62 cm) Overall (without base): 10 3/4 × 8 1/2 × 3 in. (27.31 × 21.59 × 7.62 cm) Object Number: 80.17 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-55122306

Kore (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 5th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Sculpture Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (with base): 7 1/2 × 17 × 5 in. (19.05 × 43.18 × 12.7 cm) Overall (without base): 7 1/2 × 14 × 5 in. (19.05 × 35.56 × 12.7 cm) Object Number: 80.18 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-55122305

Kore (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 5th century BC Culture: Etruscan Category: Sculpture Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (with base): 7 1/2 × 17 × 5 in. (19.05 × 43.18 × 12.7 cm) Overall (without base): 7 1/2 × 14 × 5 in. (19.05 × 35.56 × 12.7 cm) Object Number: 80.18 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-55122305

Statuette of Molossian Hound (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 2nd-3rd Century Culture: Roman Category: Sculpture Medium: Bronze Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 1 3/4 × 6 3/8 × 3 in. (4.45 × 16.19 × 7.62 cm) Mount: 3/4 × 7 3/16 × 4 in. (1.91 × 18.26 × 10.16 cm) Object Number: 2016.18 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-62237103

Statuette of Molossian Hound (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 2nd-3rd Century Culture: Roman Category: Sculpture Medium: Bronze Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 1 3/4 × 6 3/8 × 3 in. (4.45 × 16.19 × 7.62 cm) Mount: 3/4 × 7 3/16 × 4 in. (1.91 × 18.26 × 10.16 cm) Object Number: 2016.18 Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-62237103

Campana Relief Plaque of a Lion Hunt (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 1st century BC Culture: Roman (South Italian) Category: Sculpture Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Geography: South Italy Dimensions: Overall: 16 × 16 1/4 × 1 in. (40.64 × 41.28 × 2.54 cm) Object Number: 60.7 The theme of rescuing a hunter in desperate straits originates in the court art of Alexander the Great. Reliefs such as this were mold-made and served as decorative architectural panels. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12981081

Campana Relief Plaque of a Lion Hunt (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 1st century BC Culture: Roman (South Italian) Category: Sculpture Medium: terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Geography: South Italy Dimensions: Overall: 16 × 16 1/4 × 1 in. (40.64 × 41.28 × 2.54 cm) Object Number: 60.7 The theme of rescuing a hunter in desperate straits originates in the court art of Alexander the Great. Reliefs such as this were mold-made and served as decorative architectural panels. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-12981081

Relief Plaque (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 4th century BC Culture: Greek Category: Sculpture Medium: copper alloy Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 5 × 3 3/4 in. (12.7 × 9.53 cm) Object Number: 57.18.2 This masterful relief is perhaps from the shoulder guard of a cuirass or the cheek piece of a helmet. It shows a satyr kneeling in a landscape (indicated by a tree) with a dramatically foreshortened right leg and left hand. A satyr typically has a snub nose, wears a panther skin, and bears a thyrsus (a staff surmounted by a pinecone). Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8056243

Relief Plaque (Primary Title) Unknown (Artist) Date: 4th century BC Culture: Greek Category: Sculpture Medium: copper alloy Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 5 × 3 3/4 in. (12.7 × 9.53 cm) Object Number: 57.18.2 This masterful relief is perhaps from the shoulder guard of a cuirass or the cheek piece of a helmet. It shows a satyr kneeling in a landscape (indicated by a tree) with a dramatically foreshortened right leg and left hand. A satyr typically has a snub nose, wears a panther skin, and bears a thyrsus (a staff surmounted by a pinecone). Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-8056243

Neapolitan Fisher Boy (Primary Title) Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux, French, 1827 - 1875 (Artist) Date: 1873 Culture: French Category: Sculpture Medium: bronze Collection: European Art Dimensions: Overall (statue): 35 1/4 × 16 × 19 1/4 in. (89.54 × 40.64 × 48.9 cm) Overall (stand): 41 × 16 × 19 in. (104.14 × 40.64 × 48.26 cm) Object Number: 60.17 Contemporary Italian subjects were extremely popular in 19th-century Europe, as they offered an opportunity for cultural fantasies concerning urbanism and modernity. In the wake of the Industrial Revolution, France and other countries experienced cultural shifts in which their urban populations grew while their rural populations decreased. With these shifts emerged a growing fascination with “primitive” and rustic cultures, untainted by the concerns of modern life. As the French in particular grew to define themselves as an industrial society, they needed to create a cultural foil or contrast to their modernity. Italian subjects such as that seen in Carpeaux’s Neapolitan Fisher Boy were embraced for this reason. Case in bronze, Carpeaux’s youthful male figure is nude, placing him in a state of nature. As he kneels on one knee, he holds a shell up to his left ear, carefully balancing himself as he listens. He seems unaware of his nudity and captivated by the sensory and sensual experience of listening to the shell. Carpeaux studied at the French Academy in Rome in the 1850s and ‘60s, and claimed to have based this figure on a youth he observed in Naples. Because it captures a spontaneous and dynamic moment of human activity, the post of the youth is typical of Carpeaux’s work because it captures a spontaneous and dynamic moment of human activity. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/7898249-174292293