A wide black clay vase with a short narrow neck and handles, features a scene carved in white clay on its side. Several nude figures, a snake, and a tree stand out against the black. A woman with a ...

This hazy landscape painting verges on abstraction, as sketches of figures and objects are formed with quick brushstrokes and minimal detail, approximating limited night vision. A group of small café ...

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We see the head and shoulders of a woman in the extreme foreground at lower center left, standing among some large rocks. She has long straight dark hair and pronounced dark circles around her eyes as ...

According to Greek mythology, Aeolus lived on the island Aeolia, identified today with Lipari or Stromboli, north of Sicily. He kept the winds in a cave and released them to help or impede nautical ...

A white plate featuring a scalloped edge with a gold rim. The plate has relief flowers around the rim and in the bowl of the vessel. There are four flower groupings around the rim, with one flower ...

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The clash between men and Amazons, a mythical tribe of female warriors from the exoticized “East,” was a common motif in Greek monumental and Roman funerary art. This version has no dominating hero or ...

On the side of the coin on the left is the bust of a man facing right, clean shaven with curly tendrils of short hair held in place with a wreath made of oak leaves; surrounding the decorative border, ...

Rodin deemed a head and arms to be superfluous to this sculpture; stripped of these, the torso and legs alone express the essential concept of movement. Rodin created many such fragments (that is, ...

Light shading and faintly sketched lines on cream colored paper depict a woman in profile. She appears to be dancing, arching her back and casting a look above and behind her as she steps forward. Her ...

At left, a young fair skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands facing us, wearing only an ornate crown and jewels, a richly embroidered open robe around her shoulders. With a leopard at her feet ...