Collections: August 2011 Images

  • 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: Heart Amulet with Head of a Scarab

The heart was generally the only organ left inside the human mummy. Ancient Egyptians believed that the heart was the seat of one’s co...

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: Bowl with Kufic Calligraphy

    The Arabic inscription on this bowl reads, “Planning before work protects from regrets; patience is the key to comfort.”

     

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