Room of the Culture and Art of the Hellenistic Era

In this room Leo von Klenze proposed placing one of the libraries of the Imperial Museum. The walls are finished with stucco (artificial marble) and decorated with ornamental painting. The columns were made from red Finnish granite. This room presents Roman copies of works by Greek sculptors of the second half of the 5th and early 4th centuries B.C. Outstanding among these works is a relief of The Death of Niobe's Children, the composition of which was inspired by the decoration of the throne for Phidias's famous statue of Olympian Zeus at Elis. Part of the display consists of Grecian vases from the second half of the 6th and the 5th centuries B.C.