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11/01/2019 The Nereid Monument, British Museum Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk 1 2 Suggested reconstruction Dr William Sterling Dr William Sterling www.williamsterling.co.uk www.williamsterling.co.uk 3 4 British Museum
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The Nereid Monument, British Museum
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Suggested reconstruction
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Miniaturk Istanbul
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British Museum suggested reconstruction with black areas showing sculpture in the museum
Charles Thomas Newton Newton at Halicarnassus 1862 Newton at Halicarnassus Newton excavating Roman mosaics at Halicarnassus Roman mosaics from Halicarnassus excavated by Newton, British Museum
Newton at Rhodes Newton excavating Lion of Cnidus Lion of Cnidus, British Museum The Amazonomachy drawn by Richard Dadd in 1844 Charles Robert Cockerell 1852 Charles Robert Cockerell 1852
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Site of Mausoleum at Bodrum today
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Mausoleum underground chamber
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Mausoleum steps
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Bodrum Castle Former Mausoleum display, British Museum
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Current Mausoleum display, British Museum
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“Artemisia” and “Mausolus”
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Back of Artemisia
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Back of Mausolus
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Mausolus’s head Egyptian Calcite Jar with Xerxes’s name on found in the tomb which must have been a gift to the earlier Artemisia in 480 BC and passed down to her successors
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Head and shoulders of one of four horses from the Quadriga on the pinnacle showing surviving bronze harness
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Chariot wheel and hoof from the Quadriga Diagram showing location of surviving parts of Quadriga
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One of the lions from the edge of the pyramid roof , British Museum
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Mausoleum lion from the staircase, British Museum
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Fragments from the Mausoleum , British Museum
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Fragments from the Mausoleum , British Museum
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Fragments from the Mausoleum lions , British Museum
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Lion head from the Mausoleum, British Museum Head of Ada, sister of Mausolus and Artemisia from the Mausoleum, British Museum Ada’s stronghold at Alinda
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Apollo from the Mausoleum, British Museum
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Head of a bearded man from the Mausoleum , British Museum
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Head of a bearded man from the Mausoleum , British Museum
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Panther at bay from the Mausoleum hunting scene, British Museum
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Hunter in Persian dress from the Mausoleum, British Museum Persian hunter wearing Phrygian cap, British Museum
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Necking drum from the Mausoleum, British Museum
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Ionic column head from the Mausoleum, British Museum
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Fragment of Greek and Centaur from the Centauromachy frieze on the Mausoleum, British Museum
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Fragment of the Centauromachy Frieze on the Mausoleum, British Museum
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Fragment of Chariot Frieze on the Mausoleum, British Museum Fragments of Friezes on the Mausoleum, British Museum
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Fragment from the Amazonomachy Frieze, Bodrum Museum
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Fragment from the Amazonomachy Frieze, Bodrum Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Heracles on the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Theseus (with later inscription) on the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum
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Part of the Amazonomachy Frieze, British Museum Roman copy of Meleager by Scopas, British Museum
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Roman copy of Apollo Belvedere by Leochares, Vatican
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Diana of Versailles by Leochares
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Prado Leda and the Swan by Timotheus
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Yale Leda and the Swan by Timotheus
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Serapis by Bryaxis
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Temple of Athena at Priene by Pytheos Statue from the Temple of Athena at Priene
Column capital from the Temple of Athena at Priene
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Illustration to Marcus Vitruvius Pollio and Walther Hermann Ryff 1575 work on architecture
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Maarten van Heemskerck 1572
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Maarten de Vos 1614
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Antonio Tempesta 1608
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Pierre Valleran 1675-1700
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C17th illustration to Aesop’s Fables - Forester showing the Mausoleum to a lion
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Wilhelm Schubert van Ehrenberg 1650-75
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Robert von Spalart 1796 Charles Robert Cockerell 1856 Based on Fergusson 1862 and Petersen 1867
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Sidney Barclay 1880 A J Stevenson 1896
Mausolus 1555 Coin of Mausolus Coin of Pharnabaze II satrap of Cilicia 413 BC
Persian Satraps Carian soldier on monument to Xerxes Persian satrap in quadriga from the Oxus Treasure 350-200 BC, British Museum Royal arm ring from the Oxus Treasure 350-200 BC, British Museum Votive offering from the Oxus Treasure 350-200 BC, British Museum Votive offering from the Oxus Treasure 350-200 BC, British Museum
Woodcut illustration from Giovanni Boccaccio's De mulieribus Claris (c. 1374) of Artemisia drinking the ashes of her husband Mausolus c. 1474 Master of Griselda Artemisia 1498 Museo Poldi Pezzoli Artemisia by Domenico Fetti c. 1620 Vienna Artemisia Prepares to Drink the Ashes of her Husband, Mausolus by Francesco Furini
Gerrit van Honthorst Artemisia c. 1635 Princeton Art Gallery
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Artemisia by Rembrandt 1634
After Vignon c. 1639-40 Artemisia Building the Mausoleum by Simon Vouet
Playing Card 1644 Artemisia 1647 Artemisia anonymous C17th Pieter van Lint Artemisia with the ashes of King Mausolus C17th
Artemisia by Erasmus Quellinus II 1652 Hunterian Museum Arnold Houbraken Commemoration of King Mausolus by Queen Artemisia c. 1675 Artemisia by Johann Heinrich Tischbein 1775 Artemisia by Johann Baptist Hagenauer 1773-80 Schönbrunn Palace Vienna Tomb in Dougga Tunisia C2nd BC Roman tomb at Mylasa in Caria
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St George’s Bloomsbury by Nicholas Hawksmoor 1730 with King George I as St George Grant’s Tomb New York 1897 The Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall in Pittsburgh 1910 PNC Tower Cincinnati 1913
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Masonic Hall Washington DC 1915 Indiana War Memorial 1924
26 Broadway New York 1928 Los Angeles City Hall 1928 The Civil Courts Building St Louis 1930 National Newark Building 1931
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Shrine of Remembrance Melbourne 1934 National Diet Tokyo 1936
Quadriga on Dougga Tomb C2nd BC Horses of Basilica San Marco Venice possibly for quadriga of Septimius Severus monument C3rd AD taken from Constantinople 1204 AD Quadriga on Brandenburg Gate with the quadriga of 1791 by Johann Gottfried Schadow, print of 1793 Charles Meynier Napoleon in Berlin in 1806 The Brandenburg Gate showing Quadriga and Centauromachy Metopes Hippolyte Bellangé Un jour de revue sous l’Empire 1810 NB the horses are those from St Mark’s which Napoleon had liberated from Venice
Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel 1815 quadriga by Baron François Joseph Bosio The Quadriga on the Arc de Triomphe du Carrousel Arch of Peace Milan 1807-1838 General Staff Building on the Palace Square in Saint Petersburg 1819-1829 Wellington Arch designed 1827 The Wellington Arch Quadriga 1912 designed by Adrian Jones - a small boy (the son of Lord Michelham who funded it) leading the quadriga, with Peace descending from heaven.
Alexandrinsky Theatre, in Saint Petersburg 1828-1832 The Grand Theatre, Warsaw the quadriga reflecting the original Antonio Corazzi's 1833 plans but not executed until 2002 The Grand Theatre, Warsaw quadriga Panther Quadriga on the Semperoper in Dresden c. 1841 Thorvaldsen Museum in Copenhagen by Hermann Wilhelm Bissen and Stephan Ussing 1845-8 Thorvaldsen Museum Quadriga
Bolshoi Theatre quadriga designed by sculptor Peter Clodt von Jürgensburg c. 1850 Bolshoi Theatre quadriga Siegestor (Victory Gate) in Munich topped by a lion quadriga by Martin von Wagner c. 1852 Ducal palace in Braunschweig 1868, destroyed in 1944 during the Second World War Quadriga on the ducal palace in Braunschweig restored 2007 Font de la cascada Ciutadella Park Barcelona 1885
Quadriga de l'Aurora by Rossend Nobas i Ballbé Peristyle Building, World's Columbian Exposition 1893, Daniel Chester French, sculptor Peristyle Building Quadriga, World's Columbian Exposition Quadriga of Brabant 1895 on top of Parc du Cinquantenaire built for the 50 years of Belgian Independence, in Brussels, by Thomas Vinçotte and Jules Lagae Parc du Cinquantenaire Quadriga Grand Palais in Paris, quadrigas by French sculptor Georges Récipon c. 1900
Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, New York, lady Columbia rides in a chariot drawn by two horses as two winged Victory figures, each leading a horse, trumpet Columbia's arrival by Frederick William MacMonnies c. 1900 Victory and Progress by J. Massey Rhind on the Wayne County Building in Detroit, Michigan 1904 Progress of the State Minnesota State Capitol 1906 by Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter The Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II Rome 1911-1935 The Monument to Vittorio Emanuele II one of the quadrigas The former Banco di Bilbao Madrid 1919-1923 quadrigas by Higinio Basterras and Quentin de la Torre
Fort Worth 1987 Buddy Bear Berlin 2012