Collections: Items Tagged "mythology"

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On View: Headrest of Shemai

This headrest—the Egyptian version of a pillow—was found in the tomb of a man named Shemai. Headrests were believed to have magi...

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: Standing Male Figure (Sigiti)

    This figure was created to commemorate an ancestor chief, although it does not represent the deceased in a literal way. Such figures are kep...

     

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    Found 29 Items Tagged "mythology"


    BacchanteOrpheus (Orphée)Horus Falcon-Form CoffinKeys to the CoopMantleCentauressCartonnage Mummy CoveringTile with Winged, Crowned SphinxAndromeda (Andromède)The Childhood of Saint John the Baptist (Lenfance de saint Jean-Baptiste)DianaVenus and MarsVenusInfant FaunHeracles Smiting Acheloos in the Form of a BullThe Goddess Kwannon on a DragonLamp in the Form of the Mythical Garuda BirdBlack-figure Amphora of Panathenaic Shape
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