Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Torso of a Female Figure (Primary Title) attributed to, Goulandris Master, Greek (Artist) Date: 2600-2400 BC Culture: Cycladic Category: Sculpture Medium: marble Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 7 1/4 × 5 × 2 in. (18.42 × 12.7 × 5.08 cm) Object Number: 85.1511 The work of the Goulandris Master (named for a museum in Athens, Greece) features long, lyre-shaped heads; sloping shoulders; rounded backs; small, widely spaced breasts; and a line across the abdomen to form the top of the pubic triangle. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15697900

Torso of a Female Figure (Primary Title) attributed to, Goulandris Master, Greek (Artist) Date: 2600-2400 BC Culture: Cycladic Category: Sculpture Medium: marble Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall: 7 1/4 × 5 × 2 in. (18.42 × 12.7 × 5.08 cm) Object Number: 85.1511 The work of the Goulandris Master (named for a museum in Athens, Greece) features long, lyre-shaped heads; sloping shoulders; rounded backs; small, widely spaced breasts; and a line across the abdomen to form the top of the pubic triangle. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15697900

Red-figure Squat Lekythos (Storage Vessel) (Primary Title) attributed to, Felton Painter (Artist) Date: second quarter of the 4th century BC Culture: Greek, South Italian (Apulian) Category: Containers-Vessels Ceramics Medium: glazed terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (diameter at body): 12 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (31.75 × 16.51 cm) Object Number: 91.24 “Eros, who is the most beautiful of the deathless gods, loosens the limbs and overpowers reason and good counsel in the hearts of all gods and men.” – Hesiod, Theogony In this idyllic scene, Eros, the mischievous god of desire, flies toward a woman seated amid plants in a garden. A youth and young woman holding a parasol attend the woman. While the goddess Aphrodite presided over female beauty, Eros, her son according to most sources, was associated with both male and female beauty. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15411469

Red-figure Squat Lekythos (Storage Vessel) (Primary Title) attributed to, Felton Painter (Artist) Date: second quarter of the 4th century BC Culture: Greek, South Italian (Apulian) Category: Containers-Vessels Ceramics Medium: glazed terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (diameter at body): 12 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (31.75 × 16.51 cm) Object Number: 91.24 “Eros, who is the most beautiful of the deathless gods, loosens the limbs and overpowers reason and good counsel in the hearts of all gods and men.” – Hesiod, Theogony In this idyllic scene, Eros, the mischievous god of desire, flies toward a woman seated amid plants in a garden. A youth and young woman holding a parasol attend the woman. While the goddess Aphrodite presided over female beauty, Eros, her son according to most sources, was associated with both male and female beauty. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15411469

Red-figure Squat Lekythos (Storage Vessel) (Primary Title) attributed to, Felton Painter (Artist) Date: second quarter of the 4th century BC Culture: Greek, South Italian (Apulian) Category: Containers-Vessels Ceramics Medium: glazed terracotta Collection: Ancient Art Dimensions: Overall (diameter at body): 12 1/2 × 6 1/2 in. (31.75 × 16.51 cm) Object Number: 91.24 “Eros, who is the most beautiful of the deathless gods, loosens the limbs and overpowers reason and good counsel in the hearts of all gods and men.” – Hesiod, Theogony In this idyllic scene, Eros, the mischievous god of desire, flies toward a woman seated amid plants in a garden. A youth and young woman holding a parasol attend the woman. While the goddess Aphrodite presided over female beauty, Eros, her son according to most sources, was associated with both male and female beauty. Text from: www.vmfa.museum/piction/6027262-15411469