Collections: Items Tagged "Orientalist"

  • 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: Egyptian Priest Kneeling with Offering Table

The kneeling posture conveys honor and reverence. The offering table suggests appeasement because it takes the form of a hieroglyph for &ldq...

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: Toilet Dish in Two Parts in the Form of a Fish

    A container for cosmetics or possibly medical ointment, this covered dish represents a tilapia fish. The tilapia symbolized fertility and wa...

     

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    Found 9 Items Tagged "Orientalist"


    Herod (Hérode)An Interesting GameThe Old Blue-Tiled Mosque, outside Delhi, IndiaPhilae on the NileStudy of a Moor in BlueThe Carpet Merchant of CairoHarem Woman with Ostrich FanArab HeadPortrait of Maharaja Bakhat Singh
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