Collections: Items Tagged "Middle East"

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    Arts of Africa, Steinberg Family Sculpture Garden
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    Luce Center for American Art

On View: Snuff Spoon/ Hair Ornament

Ivory’s value results from its scarcity, as well as its association with the elephant, a symbol of power and strength. Ivory bracelets...

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: Pendant Cross

    Ethiopian Crosses
    Christianity most likely arrived in Ethiopia in the first century. The conversion of King Ezana in 330

     

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    Found 122 Items Tagged "Middle East"


    Mirror CaseOn the Way between Old and New Cairo, Citadel Mosque of Mohammed Ali, and Tombs of the MamelukesRelief of Persian GuardAn Interesting GameHexagonal TileIsraeli Sniper WallThe Flight into Egypt (La fuite en Égypte)Jesus Sleeping During the Tempest (Jésus dormant pendant la tempête)Philae on the NileStudy of a Moor in BlueThe Carpet Merchant of CairoBox in the Form of an EthrogArab HeadAmphora with Two Handles and Separate BaseSeated StatueStudio Portrait of Zill al-Sultan, One of 274 Vintage PhotographsA Family of DervishesGroup Veiled Women with a Baby
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