Collections: Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art

  • 1st Floor
    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
  • 2nd Floor
    Arts of Asia and the Islamic World
  • 3rd Floor
    Egyptian Art, European Paintings
  • 4th Floor
    Contemporary Art, Decorative Arts, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art
  • 5th Floor
    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Fragment from a Relief of a Ritual Scene

Both of these figures wear priestly attire. One has his hands raised In a gesture of prayer or adoration, while the other—to judge fro...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Table

    Today when we think of where inventive contemporary design is manufactured, we often think of Italy. This, however, was not always the c...

     

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    Relief of Sandaled Feet of a Royal WomanRelief of Mourning WomenStatue of Ity-senTorso of ZiharptoMummy and Cartonnage of HorThe Kings Scribe Si-ese, Grinding GrainRelief Blocks from the Tomb of the Vizier NespeqashutyRoyal Statues in ProcessionFalse-Door Stela of a WomanAnthropoid Coffin of ThothirdesRelief of Mourners Before a TombFragment of Inscribed Door LintelHeadrest with Two Images of the God BesScribe Statue of Amunhotep, Son of NebirySeated Statue of the Superintendent of the Granary IrukaptahSeated Statuette of Sekhemka
     
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    "Dear Joanna, Mut is an ancient Egyptian goddess, who is called the daughter of the sun-god, Ra, in some myths. None of the myths, however, describe the date of her birth, or her death. Best, Yekaterina Barbash Assistant Curator Arts of Ancient Egypt Brooklyn Museum "
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    "I lived, and I died as, no doubt, you too from the future who might see my portrait will I loved and I enjoyed my life and I had my pleasures and my joys and travails and pain and suffering too; there was the identity I had and I was my home, my property and jewelry and I was my group and my family and my kind… for all that, I lived as many others as any human - happy, fulfilled through inconveniences, awkwardness and comforts and possessions and then I died and you in the future, who might look at my portrait - to you I wish long life, happiness, and bliss all through the days that may be yours on this our earth where I too lived "
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