olpe

An item at Louvre

Decoration: on collar (front); frieze (remains, palmette, horizontal, surrounded by, scroll) on belly; painting (framed by, meander, point, staggered, line, vertical); Thetis and Peleus; Peleus (beard, headband, leaning, to the right, grasping); Thetis (headband, bun, draped, running, to the right, returning, head, gesticulating); in the field; branch (of point, fruit) Condition of the work: a fragment of the belly remains with part of the painting and a small piece of the neck; in a box in 4 fragments

Department of Greek, Etruscan and Roman Antiquities

An exhibit at Louvre

The Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities is home to a collection of artworks representing the Greek, Etruscan, and Roman civilizations; it illustrates the art of a vast area encompassing Greece, Italy, and the whole of the Mediterranean basin, and spans the period from Neolithic times (4th millennium BC) to the 6th century AD.

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