Sculptures - TRAVELLERS' VIEWS - Places – Monuments – People Southeastern Europe – Eastern Mediterranean – Greece – Asia Minor

Statue of seated figure, traditionally called Menander, Vatican Museums, Rome.

Statue of Posidippus, Roman copy of Hellenistic original, Vatican Museums, Rome.

Bust of Demosthenes, Vatican Museums.

Bust of Socrates, Vatican Museums.

Bust of Diogenes from Villa Albani, Rome.

Reconstruction of the cella of the temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia, with the gold and ivory statue of Zeus.

Temple of Zeus at ancient Olympia. Top: Reconstruction and lateral section. Bottom: Lateral section of the ruins of the temple (1829).

Fragments of the sculptures of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae.

1-4. Fragments of the metopes of the Temple of Apollo Epicurius at Bassae. 5. Fragments of colossal sculpture discovered at Bassae and kept today at the British Museum, London.

1. Funerary steles from Delos island, which the author saw on Tinos island. 2. Sculpture of Heracles with inscription, Tinos island.

Funerary steles and fragment of sculpture, Tinos island.

1. Sphinx from Delos which the author saw on Aegina island. 2. Statuettes from Delos.

Antiquities from Milos island.

1. Funerary stele seen by the author at the Kapodistrias Museum on Aegina island. 2. Clay figurine seen by the author at the same museum. 3. Decorative feature of sarcophagus seen by the author at the same museum.

Clay figurine and vase seen by the author at the Kapodistrias Museum on Aegina island.

1. Lekythos with relief from Salamis island. 2. Torso of statue from Eleusis. 3, 4. Votive stele with inscriptions, seen by the author at the Kapodistrias Museum on Aegina island.

Temple of Aphaia, Aegina island: Elevation of the temple façade (eastern side), reconstructed.

Reconstruction of the pediments of the temple of Aphaia on Aegina island: 1. Western pediment: scene from the Trojan War. 2. Eastern pediment: Heracles against Laomedon, king of Troy.