* Polykleitos starts making the bronze statue Achilles ( also known as The Spear Bearer or Doryphoros ), which he finishes about ten years later.

Polykleitos ' Doryphoros ( Spear-Bearer ), an early example of classical contrapposto.

A characteristic of Polykleitos ' Doryphoros is the classical contrapposto in the pelvis ; the figure's stance is such that one leg seems to be in movement while he is standing on the other.

The canonic proportions of the male torso established by Polykleitos ossified in Hellenistic and Roman times in the heroic cuirass exemplified by the Augustus of Prima Porta, who wears ceremonial dress armor modelled in relief over an idealized muscular torso which is ostensibly modelled on the Doryphoros.

Polykleitos, the Doryphoros, and Tradition ( University of Wisconsin Press ) 1995.

This period is one of discovery of the expressive possibilities of the human body ; there is a greater freedom in the poses and gestures, and an increased attention to anatomical verisimilitude as may be observed in the ponderated stances of the figures W9 and W4 who partially anticipate the Doryphoros of Polykleitos.

* Polykleitos, The J. Paul Getty Museum ( link broken )

Bulk of them are housed at the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Her paintings can be seen at galleries in Baltimore ( Walters Art Museum ), Bergamo, Boston ( Museum of Fine Arts ), Brescia ( Pinacoteca Tosio Martinengo ), Budapest, Florence ( Uffizi Gallery ), Madrid ( Museo del Prado ), Milan ( Pinacoteca di Brera ), Naples ( National Museum of Capodimonte ), Siena ( Pinacoteca Nazionale ), Southampton ( City Art Gallery ), and Vienna ( Kunsthistorisches Museum ).

Reggio, with Naples and Taranto, is home to one of the most important archaeological museums, the prestigious National Archaeological Museum of Magna Græcia, dedicated to Ancient Greece ( which houses the famous Bronzes of Riace, rare example of Greek bronze sculpture, which became one of the symbols of the city ).

Spoons from Pompeii displayed at Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Peach tree is portrayed in the domuswall paintings of the towns destroyed by the Vesuvius eruption of 79 AD, with the oldest artistic representations of peach fruit, discovered so far, are in the two fragments of wall paintings, dated back to the 1st century AD, in Herculaneum, now preserved in the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

Bust titled ' Solon ' ( National Museum, Naples ). This realistic representation of Solon bears little resemblance to the kind of sculpture that was produced in the archaic age.

This bust of Scipio Africanus the Elder is at the National Museum in Naples, Italy.

File: Sommer, _Giorgio_ ( 1834-1914 ) _-_1516_-_MUSEO_DI_NAPOLI. jpg | Antinous Farnese, Naples National Archaeological Museum

The death of Dirce is depicted in a marble statue, a 1st-century AD Roman Copy of a 2nd-century BC Hellenistic Greek original known as the Farnese Bull, which is now in the collections of the National Archaeological Museum in Naples.

Pindar, Roman copy of Greek 5th century BC bust ( Naples National Archaeological Museum | Museo Archeologica Nazionale, Naples )

The original now resides in the National Museum in Naples and a copy stands in its place.

In 1819, when King Francis I of Naples visited the Pompeii exhibition at the National Museum with his wife and daughter, he was so embarrassed by the erotic artwork that he decided to have it locked away in a secret cabinet, accessible only to " people of mature age and respected morals ".

) and Saint Matthias, National Gallery, London ; The Ascension National Museum and Gallery of Capodimonte, Naples.

The Ephraim Cleveland House, Naples Memorial Town Hall and Morgan Hook and Ladder Company are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

The original is preserved in the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Category: Collection of Naples National Archaeological Museum

Ancient Rome | Roman wall painting in Pompeii ( around 70 AD ), Naples National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy

The famous Farnese sculpture collection, now in the National Archeological Museum of Naples, as well as other Farnese collections, now mostly in Capodimonte Museum in Naples, were accommodated in the palace.

The already mentioned painting Allegory of Virtue and Vice was intended as an allegorical cover of his portrait ( 1505 ) of the bishop ( now in National Museum of Capodimonte in Naples ), who had survived an assassination attempt.

National Museum of Capodimonte, Naples

Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary is a National Audubon Society sanctuary located in southwest Florida, north of Naples, Florida and east of Bonita Springs, in the United States.

Bust of Julius Caesar from the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Farnese Hercules, a Roman copy from the original by Lysippos ( Naples National Archaeological Museum )

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Among the works attributed to him are the so-called Horses of Saint Mark, Eros Stringing the Bow ( of which various copies exist, the best in the British Museum ), Agias ( known through the marble copy found and preserved in Delphi ), the similar Oil Pourer ( Dresden and Munich ), the Farnese Hercules ( which was originally placed in the Baths of Caracalla, although the surviving marble copy lies in the Naples National Archaeological Museum ) and Apoxyomenos ( or The Scraper, known from a Roman marble copy in the Vatican Museums ).

The villa also housed a collection of 80 sculptures of magnificent quality, many now conserved in the rooms of the large bronzes at the Naples National Archaeological Museum.

Naples National Archaeological Museum.

All the material is preserved in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples.

Bust of Archidamus III from the Villa of the Papyri in Herculaneum, now in the Naples National Archaeological Museum

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The sculpture is at the National Archaeological Museum ( Museo Archeologico Nazionale ) in Naples, Italy.

* National Archaeological Museum, Naples, Italy

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The Naples National Archaeological Museum ( Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Napoli ) is a museum in Naples, southern Italy, at the northwest corner of the original Greek wall of the city of Neapolis.