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Selected Works City Defenses

Discover a host of artworks associated with the defenses of the city. Cities are economic and political centers that require protection. Ramparts, temples and churches dedicated to protective gods were some of the ways people found to guarantee the safety of the city and society.

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Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities

Athena known as the Pallas of ...

Roman work dating from the Imperial era (first century...

Discovered in 1797 in the ruins of a Roman...
Near Eastern Antiquities

Blessing genius

Neo-Assyrian period, circa 721-705 BC (reign of Sargon II)

Third gate of the palace of Sargon II,...
Near Eastern Antiquities

Winged human-headed bull

Neo-Assyrian Period, reign of Sargon II (721-705 BC)

Khorsabad, ancient Dur Sharrukin, Assyria,...
Near Eastern Antiquities

A Hurrian foundation deposit known...

Period of the Empire of Ur III, 21st century BC

Probably Tell Mozan, northeast Syria
Prints and Drawings

Dominique Papety (Marseille, 1815-Marseille, 1849)

Athens, view of the Acropolis from...

1846
Prints and Drawings

Joseph Mallord William Turner (London, 1775-1851)

View of the Château de...

C. 1830
Prints and Drawings

Jean-Baptiste Dominique INGRES (Montauban, 1780-Paris,...

The Triumph of Romulus over Acron

After 1812
Prints and Drawings

Anne-Louis Girodet de Roussy-Trioson (Montargis,...

The Trojan Horse

Between 1810-11 and 1824
Prints and Drawings

Albrecht Dürer (1471, Nuremberg-1528, Nuremberg)

View of the Arco Valley

Circa 1495
Prints and Drawings

Annibale CARRACCI (Bologna, 1560-Rome, 1609)

Landscape with She-Wolf Suckling...

c.1590
Paintings

Pietro BERRETTINI, known as Pierre de CORTONE (Cortone,...

Romulus and Remus Given Shelter by...

c. 1643

Le musée du Louvre conserve cinq des tableaux...