10: The Room of Classical Greek Art

This small oval room is situated in the New Hermitage built to the design of Leo von Klenze in 1851 for the Imperial Museum. According to the original project the room was intended for a museum library. The walls of the room are adorned with light green artificial marble. The columns are made of red Finish granite and the coffers of the vault are decorated with ornamental painting. On display in this room are Roman copies from Greek sculptures dating from the second half of the 5th - early 4th centuries BC Of special interest among them are the relief representing the death of Niobids (430s-420s BC) and drawn on the decoration of the statue of Zeus by the famous Greek sculptor Phidias as well as the head of the statue of Ares, the god of war (c. 420s BC), a Roman copy from the original by Alcamenes. Worthy of mention are also Greek vases of the second half of the 6th and 5th centuries BC