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: Clouds over the Black Sea--Crimea

In this large canvas, painted from Aiou-Dagh Mountain in the Crimean Peninsula, Boris Anisfeld challenges traditional landscape painting by ...

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: Fragment of Temple Relief of King's Face

    Most Egyptian reliefs decorating ancient temple walls were brightly painted. Limestone was too porous to allow for an even application of co...

     

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    Relief Depicting Akenhaten and His Daughter Offering to the AtenFemale Ancestral BustJewelry Box (?) with LidRelief of Princess Khekeret-nebtyRelief with Desert AnimalsBlock Statue of PadimahesRoyal KaDonation Stela with a CurseSwamp SceneBoundary Stela of Sety IPtolemaic Queen (Cleopatra VII?)Relief of Amunhotep INefertitiDetail of a Row of ForeignersRelief of a FowlerRelief of Montuhotep III
     
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