Locations: Girga Region, Middle Egypt, Egypt

  • 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: Relief of Queen Nefertiti Kissing One of Her Daughters

Egyptian art made in the centuries before Akhenaten came to the throne gives few clues to the lives or feelings of members of the royal fami...

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: Dance Headdress (Ci-wara Kun)

    These headdresses, called ci-wara, represent antelopes, important animals in Bamana philosophy. The antelope’s power is a metaphor for...

     

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    Girga Region, Middle Egypt, Egypt

    Stela of Djefi and Ankh[en]es-ites
    ca. 2170-2008 B.C.E.
    Stela of Djefi and Ankh[en]es-ites