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: Grey Area (Brown version)

Fred Wilson often appropriates art objects to explore issues of race, gender, class, politics, and aesthetics. Made up of five portrait head...

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: Reliquary Guardian Figure (Boumba Bwiti)

    The Tsogho, like other groups in Gabon, construct bundles, often decorated with carved figures, to contain the remains of important ancestor...

     

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    Statuette of HippopotamusStatuette of the Lady Mi StandingAmunhotep IIITomb Relief FragmentPainted Pottery FishFragment of Tomb ReliefRelief of Men Presenting OxenStanding Statuette of Lady TutyHead from a Female SphinxKing Osorkon IKitchen SceneHedgehogFragmentary Slab, "Riverside Scene"Stela Fragment with CrocodilesStatuette of King NechoFigure of a Bound Foreign Prisoner
     
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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 "
    By Yekaterina Barbash

    "When was mut born and when did she die? "
    By joanna

    "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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