Lyre Collection (page 6)

Detail of Greek red-Figured Kylix, Apollo seated at altar, with Kithara, Athens, c480BC-47 BC

Reconstruction of a Roman lyre, c20th century

Reconstruction of a Roman tortoise shell lyre, c20th century

Greek Vase Painting of Lyre Player, Attic Red Figure Cup, c5th century BC
Greek Vase Painting. Lyre Player, Attic Red Figure Cup, c5th century BC

Christ shown as Apollo with Lyre, Byzantine, 4th century. Greek Marble at Byzantine Museum Athens

The Musical Contest between Apollo and Marsyas, 1630. Artist: Poelenburgh, Cornelis, van (1594 / 95-1667)
The Musical Contest between Apollo and Marsyas, 1630. Found in the collection of the Hallwylska Museet, Stockholm

Roman depiction of a centaur in a Bacchic procession, 2nd century
Depiction of a centaur in a Bacchic procession from a Roman sarcophagus, in the National Museum in Rome, 2nd century

Coptic statuette of Orpheus with a lyre, 3rd century
Statuette of Orpheus with a lyre from Ahnassia in Egypt. It was probably made for the Greek pagan community in Egypt, but has characteristics of coptic art, 3rd century

Detail of the standard of Ur showing a Sumerian Harpist and a Ruler, about 2600-2400 BC
Detail of the standard of Ur showing a Sumerian Harpist and a Ruler, from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC

The Peace side of the Standard of Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC
The Peace side of the Standard of Ur from a Royal tomb at Ur, southern Iraq, about 2600-2400 BC. Inlay of shell, red limestone, and lapis lazuli in Bitumen on a hollow box

Queens Lyre from Ur, southern Iraq, c2600-c2400 BC. Stringed instrument with a bulls head. The front panels are made of lapis lazuli, shell and red limestone originally set in bitumen

King David playing a lyre, 10th-11th century. The instrument is probably a Rebec (Rebeck), a 3-stringed instrument developed from the Arab Rabab. From a manuscript of St Martial de Limoges

Apollo with lyre. Roman marble statue. In the Greek pantheon, Apollo was the god of music, poetry, archery, prophecy and healing and sometimes identified with the Sun (Helios)

Ancient Greek muses of music and dance. Left to right: Euterpe, inventor of the double flute, associated with Dionysiac music and pleasure; Erato, muse of erotic poetry; Terpsichore, muse of Dance

Constancy of the Jews in captivity in Babylon, 6th century BC (c1860). By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion. Chromolithograph c1860

Dialogues of the Dead, 1728. Artist: Bernard Picart
Dialogues of the Dead, 1728. A print from Oeuvres Diverses, La Haye, Gosse & Neaulme, Volume I, 1728-1729. Found in the collection of Jean-Claude Carriere

Roman marriage ceremony. Copperplate engraving after an antique painting at the Aldobrandini Palace, near Rome

Greek Terracotta, Woman playing Kithera with plectrum, 3rd century BC-2nd century BC. Probably made in South Italy

Minoan terracotta figure of a lyre-player, 8th century BC
Orientalising period Minoan terracotta figure of a lyre-player from Arkades in Crete, now at the Archaeological Museum in Heracleion, Crete, 8th century BC

Detail of a Minoan sarcophagus from Crete
Detail of a Minoan sarcophagus from Ayia Triada on Crete. It depicts two priestesses pouring libations at an altar (note the double-axes) while a musician in female dress plays a seven-stringed lyre

Archaic Roman relief of Apollo with his lyre, from the Capitoline Museums collection in Rome

Paul Verlaine as Decadence, c1880s. Artist: Emile Cohl
Paul Verlaine as Decadence, c1880s. Caricature of French poet Paul Marie Verlaine (1844-1896), published in Les Hommes d Aujourd hui, (The Men of Today)

To My True Love, American Valentine card, c1910. Cupid dances on grass with naturalised Snowdrops and is playing a lyre of bluebells

Statue of Terpsichore, Muse of Dances. Roman work after a Greek model of the Praxiteles School. Found in the collection of The Hermitage, St Petersburg

The Exiled Angel from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836

The Fleeing Muse from The Complete Works of Beranger, 1836

Gathering of various Olympian gods and mythological figures among clouds, Apollo at center with his lyre, Vulcan, Mercury, Hercules, and Hermes to right, various figures below

Apollon couronnant les arts (Apollo Crowining the Arts), from Recueil de Differentes Compositions Frises et Ornements dessinees et gravees a la maniere du lavis par La Grenee le Juene Se trouve chez

Plate 58: Apollo Killing Marsyas (Marsyas victus ab Apolline excoriatur), from Ovids Metamorphoses, 1606

Trade Card for Literary Souvenir, 19th century. Creator: Robert Baker
Trade Card for Literary Souvenir, 19th century

Man with a Lyre, ca. 1514-36. Creator: Agostino Veneziano
Man with a Lyre, ca. 1514-36

Orpheus, dated 1528. Creator: Agostino Veneziano
Orpheus, dated 1528

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