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Tuesday, June 25, 2013

Naples Archaeological Museum

Bronze and gold sculptures come off all right, too, along with a sarcophagus.

Athlete:


 Dancer from the Villa Papyri, on which the Getty Villa is modeled:

 Hermes,  also from the Villa Papyri:


The Dancing Faun, from Pompeii:


A stone dog, in a pose all dog-owners will recognize:


Gold lion's head:


 Statue of Proconsul Marcus Nonius Balbus:


 Sarcophagus:

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