Architectural Relief Depicting the Gigantomachy (Battle Between Gods and Giants)

1. Private collection, Switzerland [according to Bruce McAlpine in committee meeting minutes; copy in curatorial object file]; acquired by Bruce (b. 1947) and Ingrid McAlpine (1939-2018), London, England, by 1984; sold to the Art Institute, 1984.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Myth and Legend in Classical Art, February 28, 1987-August 26, 1987.
• Art Institute of Chicago, The Human Figure in Greek and Roman Art: From the Permanent Collection, Part 2, January 13, 1989-February 21, 1990.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Ancient Art Galleries, Gallery 156, April 20, 1994 - February 6, 2012.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Of Gods and Glamour: The Mary and Michael Jaharis Galleries of Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Art, Gallery 152, November 11, 2012-November 1, 2018.

• Art Institute of Chicago, Annual Report: 1983-84 (Art Institute of Chicago, 1984), p. 47, p. 17 (ill.).
• Maria José Strazzula, "Motivi Pergameni in Etruria a Proposito di una Terracotta Architettonica con Gigantomachia a Chicago," Archeologia Classica 43 (1991), pp. 1163-1178.
• Gaetano Messineo, "Terrecotte architettoniche da Pagliaroli," in La valle dell'alto Vomano ed i Monti della Laga, edited by F. Aceto et al. (2 vols), 1991, p. 184.
• Richard De Puma, "Etruscan Art" in Museum Studies: Ancient Art at The Art Institute of Chicago 20, no. 1 (1994), pp. 58-59 (ill).
• Karen Alexander, "The New Galleries of Ancient Art at the Art Institute of Chicago," Minerva vol. 5, no. 3 (May/June, 1994), p. 33, fig. 9.
• Maria José Strazzula, "L'uso delle immagini nell' edilizia pubblica dell' ellenismo a Roma e el mondo Etrusco-Italico," in Images et Modernite Hellenistiques, edited by Françoise-Hélène Massa-Pairault and Gilles Sauron, Series: Collection de l'École française de Rome, 390 (Roma : École française de Rome, 2007), p. 156, fig. 17.
• Giovanni Verri, Rachel Sabino, Katharine Raff, and Clara Granzotto, "Dressed for Battle: Investigations of an Etruscan Architectural Gigantomachy," Colour & Space. Interfaces of Ancient Architecture and Sculpture.: Proceedings of the 10th International Round Table on Polychromy in Ancient Sculpture and Architecture, Stephan Zink and Frederik Grosser (eds.) (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, 2025): 281-296 (ill.).
• James Rondeau (ed.), Highlights of the Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago: Art Institute of Chicago, 2026), cat. no. 7, p. 30 (ill.).

Carved amber bow of a fibula (safety pin)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Set of jewelry

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bronze statuette of a young woman

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bronze chariot inlaid with ivory

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta kantharos (drinking cup)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Bronze mirror

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Terracotta holmos (stand)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Nenfro statue of a winged lion

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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