King Ludwig I, an enthusiastic admirer of antiquity, assembled while still Crown Prince a collection of Greek and Roman sculpture of international importance. In order to make this collection available to a wide public, he had the Munich Glyptothek built by Leo von Klenze opened it in 1830.
2. King Ludwig I, an enthusiastic admirer of antiquity, assembled while still Crown Prince a collection of Greek and Roman sculpture of international importance. In order to make this collection available to a wide public, he had the Munich Glyptothek built by Leo von Klenze opened it in 1830.
6. Room I: Palmette of an antefix tile from the Marble roof of Parthenon. Cornice block from Erechtheion. Acropolis of Athens - Portrait of Homer 450 BC
7. Room I: 2,10m grave statue of a young from Attica 540 BC —Corinthian statue of a young 560 BC, Teneas Kouros.
9. II: Votive relief depicting a rustic sanctuary. God Asclepius seated on a throne and a godness Health, sacred plane tree, pillar with small figures altar and a whole sacrificing family. About 200 BC.
11. IV: Statues of a mourning girl and a girl with a dove 360-310 BC V: Fatherly Silenus with the child Dionysos the son of Zeus. Copy of a statue by Lysippos 310 BC
12. Room VI: Lekuthos. Grave stone of Eukoline(seated).The deceased among her family father Chaireas, husband Onesimos, son, nurse with baby. Attica 400 BC
13. Room V: Eirene, the goddess of Peace as mother of the growing prosperity (Ploutos) copy of a cult statue by Kephisodotos erected on market place of Athens 370 BC—Aphrodite Free copy of the cult statue by Praxiteles in Knidos 350 BC
14. From Room V looking IV and III roomsRoom VI: Grave relief of Artemon Attica 350 BC
15. Room VI: of the Grave Relief with the HuntsmanVII: Crowning of the west apex of the roof anthemion flanked by two small korai statues.
16. The sanctuary of Aphaia on the Island of Aegina half an hour from Piraeus.
23. IX: In the middle of east pediment Athena. The champion on the left is Telamon. The archer on the right with the lion’s head helmet is Heracles. Perhaps an early work of sculptor Onatas of Aegina 485/480BC
24. VII: On each side of Athena a fighting pair. The first warrior on the left is Ajax, grandson of Aiakos the legendary first ruler of Aegina.
26. IX: Head of warrior in the east pediment group.X: Votive relief to Dionysos the god of the theatre and a goddess. Donor family, masks of a theatrical comedy 360 BC.
27. A movement about to return the “Aeginetes marbles” to Aegina island is going topically now.
39. XI: Fragments of a large sarcophagus with a relief of a hunt.270 AD Others fragments are in Milan, Chapel Hill(USA) and in Princeton NY.XI: Frieze from Trajan’s Forum in Rome. Completed 112 AD. The frieze slabs belong to a long frieze band which decorated a magnificent state market hall.
40. XI:Sarcophagus of a married couple 240 AD XII: Colossal statue of Apollo from a Roman villa in Tuscany. 1st/2nd centuries AD.