EditorialLeander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, gray wash and red chalk with scraping out; verso: graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Height...
EditorialArtist: Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish, 15771640, Hero and?Leander, ca.?1604, Oil on canvas, 95.9 ? 128 cm, 31.75 kg (37 3/4 ? 50 3/8 in., 70 lb.), This painting illustrates the ancient Greek legend of Leander, who swam the Hellespont for midnight meetings...
EditorialLeander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, gray wash and red chalk with scraping out; verso: graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Height...
EditorialThe king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Xerxes I (519-465 BC), in 483 BC (Second Persian invasion of Greece) built The Xerxes Canal, navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula, northern Greece. The rough sea broke it apart. Fru...
EditorialHonorary decree for the proxenoi (consul) of Abydos. The Athenians honor the proxenoi of Abydos, a city on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. On the relief, Athena with an eagle on her lap, a symbol of Abydos, converses with a representative of the p...
EditorialHelle reaching for her brother Phrixus on his flying golden ram trying after falling off into Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). Dolphins caper alongside. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano...
EditorialThe king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Xerxes I (519-465 BC), in 483 BC (Second Persian invasion of Greece) built The Xerxes Canal, navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula, northern Greece. The rough sea broke it apart. Fru...
EditorialHonorary decree for the proxenoi (consul) of Abydos. The Athenians honor the proxenoi of Abydos, a city on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. On the relief, Athena with an eagle on her lap, a symbol of Abydos, converses with a representative of the p...
EditorialGold strap necklace with seedlike pendants, Hellenistic, ca. 330?300 B.C., Greek, Gold, H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); length 12 3/4 in. (32.3 cm); length of terminals 13/16 in. (2 cm), Gold and Silver, Gold strap necklace with seed-like pendants, part of the ...
EditorialLeander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, gray wash and red chalk with scraping out; verso: graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Height...
EditorialHonorary decree for the proxenoi (consul) of Abydos. The Athenians honor the proxenoi of Abydos, a city on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. On the relief, Athena with an eagle on her lap, a symbol of Abydos, converses with a representative of the p...
EditorialHelle reaching for her brother Phrixus on his flying golden ram trying after falling off into Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). Dolphins caper alongside. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano...
EditorialThe king of the Achaemenid dynasty of Persia, Xerxes I (519-465 BC), in 483 BC (Second Persian invasion of Greece) built The Xerxes Canal, navigable canal through the base of the Mount Athos peninsula, northern Greece. The rough sea broke it apart. Fru...
EditorialLeander Taking Leave of Hero Before Swimming Back Across the Hellespont. Drawing. Pen and brown ink, watercolor, gray wash and red chalk with scraping out; verso: graphite and gray wash on moderately thick, moderately textured, cream laid paper. Height...
EditorialHonorary decree for the proxenoi (consul) of Abydos. The Athenians honor the proxenoi of Abydos, a city on the Asiatic coast of the Hellespont. On the relief, Athena with an eagle on her lap, a symbol of Abydos, converses with a representative of the p...
EditorialGold strap necklace with seedlike pendants, Hellenistic, ca. 330?300 B.C., Greek, Gold, H. 1 1/4 in. (3.2 cm); length 12 3/4 in. (32.3 cm); length of terminals 13/16 in. (2 cm), Gold and Silver, Gold strap necklace with seed-like pendants, part of the ...
EditorialHelle reaching for her brother Phrixus on his flying golden ram trying after falling off into Hellespont (now the Dardanelles). Dolphins caper alongside. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano...
EditorialHero and Leander; Hero, priestess of Sestos, loves Leander who swims across the Hellespont to meet her, but drowns. Poplar wood, 40,5 x 72,5 cm Inv. 160.