Resources

Bibliography

HAMIAUX M., LAUGIER L., MARTINEZ J.-L. 2014. La Victoire de Samothrace, redécouvrir un chef-d’œuvre. Paris: co-published by the Musée du Louvre and Somogy.

HAMIAUX M. 2007. La Victoire de Samothrace. Paris: Musée du Louvre, RMN, collection “Solo.”

HAMIAUX M. 1998. Musée du Louvre, Les sculptures grecques, II. La période hellénistique. pp. 27–40, no. 2–60. Paris.

QUEYREL F. 2005. L'Autel de Pergame: images et pouvoir en Grèce d'Asie. Paris.

PASQUIER A., MARTINEZ J.-L. 2007. 100 chefs-d’œuvre de la sculpture grecque au Louvre. Paris: Musée du Louvre éditions.

RIDGWAY B.S. 1990. Hellenistic sculpture I: the styles of ca. 331-200 B.C.. Bristol.

RIDGWAY B.S. 2000. Hellenistic sculpture II: the styles of ca. 200-100 B.C.. Bristol.

RIDGWAY B.S. 2002. Hellenistic sculpture III: the styles of ca. 100-31 B.C.. Bristol.

 

Webography

Framing the Mysteries in the Sanctuary of the Great Gods, Emory University, Atlanta.

The Winged Victory of Samothrace: Rediscovering a Masterpiece , musée du Louvre. 

 

Photo credits

    
The Winged Victory of Samothrace after conservation treatment, 2014
Circa 190 BC, Musée du Louvre, Paris, MA2369
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Fuzeau

 


The Winged Victory of Samothrace after conservation treatment, 2016
Circa 190 BC, Musée du Louvre, Paris, MA2369
© Musée du Louvre / Antoine Mongodin

 

 
Fragments of the right wing and feathers 
Musée du Louvre, Paris, MA 4965 and MA 4977
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Fuzeau

 


Fragments of the right wing and feathers, proposed reconstruction
© Valérie Foret

 


Fragment of the right arm
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Ma2369
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Fuzeau

 


Victory figurine
Circa 190 BC, musée du Louvre, Paris, Myr 165
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski

 


Flying Victory
Circa 190 BC, musée du Louvre, Paris, Myr 171
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski

 


Model of the monument, O.Benndorf and K. von Zumbusch
Wincklemann-Institut, Humbolt Universität, Berlin
© DR

 


Reconstruction of the Winged Victory of Samothrace, MM Cordonnier and Falize, rotogravure by Dujardin
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


The discovery of the palm of the right hand
New York University
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace

 


The right hand of the Winged Victory of Samothrace
Musée du Louvre, Paris
© Musée du Louvre / Anne Chauvet

 

   
The Winged Victory of Samothrace after conservation treatment, 2014
Circa 190 BC, Musée du Louvre, Paris, MA2369
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Thierry Ollivier

 


Drawing of the foot for the reconstruction
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Fuzeau, dessin Valérie Foret

 


Drawing of the reconstruction of the monument
© Valérie Foret

 

 
The Winged Victory of Samothrace
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Fuzeau, colorisation Guillaume Foret et Marianne Hamiaux

 


Hellenistic low-relief carving: battleship
3rd–2nd century BC, Archaeological Museum, Samothrace
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Bonna Wescoat

 


Mosaic from Palestrina (detail): battleship
Early 1st century BC, Museo Barberiniano, Palestrina,
© De Agostini Picture Library / G. Dagli Orti / Bridgeman Images

 


Bronze ship ram found off Atlit
National Maritime Museum, Haifa
© Israel Antiquities Authority / Photographic Archives

 


Marble ram
Archaeological Museum, Rhodes
© 22e Éphorie des Antiquités, Rhodes/ George Kassiotis

 


Tetradrachm (four-drachma coin) showing Antigonus Doson: Apollo and ship’s prow
Circa 227 BC, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris
© BnF

 


Reconstruction of the ship’s prow
© Valérie Foret

 


Diagram of the assembled monument
© Valérie Foret

 


Reconstruction of the monument
© Valérie Foret

 


Map of Greece in the 2nd century BC
© Marcel Perrin, Donato di Nunno

Google Earth view

 


The island of Samothrace and Mount Fengari from the north, Bonna Westcoat
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Bonna Wescoat

 


Charles Champoiseau in 1863
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Musée du Louvre, Paris
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


Fragments unearthed with the Winged Victory by Champoiseau
Ma4958, Ma4959A, Ma4959B, Ma4966, Ma4967
© Musée du Louvre / Patrick Lebaube

 


The Winged Victory of Samothrace in the Salle des Caryatides
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Musée du Louvre, Paris
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


Drawing of the funerary monument as imagined by Champoiseau,Champoiseau
Archives des Musées Nationaux, Paris
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines avec l'autorisation des Archives nationales

 


Plan of the Victory edifice by Champoiseau,Champoiseau
Archives des Musées Nationaux, Paris
© Cliché Atelier photographique des Archives nationales

 


Assembled blocks of the base. Drawing by Alois Hauser, 1880
© Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg

 


Tetradrachm (four-drachma coin) showing Demetrius Poliorcetes
Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, 1973.1.73
© BnF

 


First reassembly in the Cour du Sphinx in 1879, Paul Rodolphe Joseph Dujardin
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Musée du Louvre, Paris
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


Model of the monument, O.Benndorf and K. von Zumbusch
Wincklemann-Institut, Humbolt Universität, Berlin
© DR

 

  
The parts recreated in plaster by F. Ravaisson-Mollien. Colorization by G. Foret
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Philippe Fuzeau, colorisation Guillaume Foret et Marianne Hamiaux

 


The Winged Victory on the Daru staircase, 1884
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


The Winged Victory on the Daru staircase between 1901 and 1932
Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Paris
© Ministère de la Culture - Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image Médiathèque du Patrimoine

 


Reconstructed plan of the sanctuary of the Great Gods,Kurtich, J.
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / John Kurtich

 


The propylon of Ptolemy II and the south and east sides of the foundations seen from the west, Bonna Westcoat
Archaeological Museum, Samothrace
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Bonna Wescoat

 


Block of the Choral Dancers frieze
Archaeological Museum, Samothrace, 9.1043A-B
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Bonna Wescoat

 


The Hieron from the south
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Bonna Wescoat

 


The Nike precinct from the north, Bonna Wescoat
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Bonna Wescoat

 


The sanctuary from the top of the theater, Bonna Westcoat
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Bonna Wescoat

 


The Nike precinct from the north, Bonna Wescoat
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Bonna Wescoat

 


Plan of the Nike precinct, J. Kurtich
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / John Kurtich

 


Votive relief to the Great Gods
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Ma 746
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Daniel Lebée et Carine Deambrosis

 


Drawing of the reconstruction of the Neorion, J. Kurtich
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / John Kurtich

 


Hypothetical reconstructions of the Victory precinct in the form of a naiskos or peribolos, drawing by Chase Jordan
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Alexander Meyers

 


Proposed reconstruction of the monument as an open naiskos or peribolos, drawing by Chase Jordan
© Courtesy of the American Excavations on Samothrace / Alexander Meyers

 


Statue of Iris, west pediment of the Parthenon
British Museum, London, 1816, 0610.96
© Eurasia Press/Photononstop

 


Statue of Artemis, east pediment of the Parthenon
British Museum, London, 1816, 0610.95
© Eurasia Press/Photononstop

 


Base in the form of a ship on Lindos
Archaeological Museum, Rhodes
© 22e Éphorie des Antiquités, Rhodes/Melina Filimonos

 


Prow on a cliff, Rhodes
© 22e Éphorie des Antiquités, Rhodes

 


Aphrodite of Rhodes
Archaeological Museum, Rhodes
© 22e Éphorie des Antiquités, Rhodes

 


Statue of a woman with a sword
200–150 BC, Pergamonmuseum, Berlin, Inventory number: AvP VII 47
© University of Cologne Archaeological Institute

 


Frieze of the Gigantomachy on the Great Altar of Pergamon: Athena and the giant Alcyoneus
Circa 180–160 BC, Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
© Erich Lessing

 


Frieze of the Gigantomachy on the Great Altar of Pergamon: Zeus and Porphyrion
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
© Erich Lessing

 


Frieze of the Gigantomachy on the Great Altar of Pergamon: Amphitrite
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
© BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Johannes Laurentius

 


Frieze of the Gigantomachy on the Great Altar of Pergamon: Nyx
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
© Erich Lessing

 


The Great Altar of Pergamon
Pergamonmuseum, Berlin
© BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Hans Christian Krass

 


Nike (Victory) of Delos?
National Archaeological Museum, Athens
© Erich Lessing

 


Bell krater, the Sysiphus Painter
Musée du Louvre, Paris, G493
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski

 


Red-figured neck-amphora, the Libation Painter
Musée du Louvre, Paris, K290
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Hervé Lewandowski

 


Tetradrachm (four-drachma coin) showing Demetrius Poliorcetes
Cabinet des Médailles, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, 1973.1.73
© BnF

 


Statuette of Nike
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Br 4792
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Daniel Lebée et Carine Deambrosis

 


Victory relief on Trajan’s Column,
Rome
© Roger B. Ulrich

 


Roman lamp (Victory)
Musée du Louvre, Paris, CP 4409
© RMN-Grand Palais (musée du Louvre) / Droits réservés

 


The Brescia Victory
Second quarter of the 1st century AD, Monastic Complex of San Salvatore and Santa Giulia, Brescia
© Musei Civici di Brescia

 


Mosaic, The Archangel Gabriel
6th–7th century AD, Church of Panagia Aggeloktisti, Kiti, Cyprus
© Sonia Halliday Photo Library

 


Mosaic, Basilica of Santa Maria in Trastevere
1291, Rome
© 2015. Photo Scala, Florence

 


The Annunciation,Fra Angelico
15th century, Museo di San Marco, Florence, Italy, OBN-F-000057-0000
© Erich Lessing

 


Reliquary of Saints Protus, Hyacinth, and Nemesius, Lorenzo Ghiberti
1425–1428, inv. 259 B
© 2015. Photo Scala, Florence - courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Cultural

 


The Winged Victory of Samothrace in the former Salle du Tibre
Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities, Musée du Louvre, Paris
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


The preserved parts of the Winged Victory. Drawings assembled by Marianne Hamiaux
© Montage Marianne Hamiaux d'après Overbeck, 1884 et Hauser, Conze, Benndorf, 1880

 


First reassembly in the Cour du Sphinx in 1879,Paul Rodolphe Joseph Dujardin
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


The Winged Victory on the Daru staircase, 1884
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


The Winged Victory on the Daru Staircase between 1901 and 1932
Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Paris
© Ministère de la Culture - Médiathèque du Patrimoine, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / image Médiathèque du Patrimoine

 


Restoration of the prow following indications given by Captain Carlini
© Musée du Louvre / Antiquités Grecques Etrusques Romaines

 


The 1934 restoration
© Studio Giraudon / Bridgeman images

 


The Winged Victory of Samothrace before conservation treatment, Daru staircase, 2014
© Musée du Louvre / Paul Maurer

 


The Winged Victory of Samothrace before conservation treatment, 2014
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Ma 2369
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Daniel Lebée et Carine Deambrosis

 


The Winged Victory of Samothrace before conservation treatment, 2014
Musée du Louvre, Paris, Ma 2370
© Musée du Louvre, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / Daniel Lebée et Carine Deambrosis

 


Restitution de la Victoire de Samothrace en 3D
© Art Graphique & Patrimoine

 

 

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