Search engine for discovering works of Art, research articles, and books related to Art and Culture
Javascript must be enabled to continue!
Head of a Woman
View through Harvard Museums
Head of a woman with an elaborate headdress and well-articulated features. Piece is broken on a diagonal below the chin. Incised decorations on headdress and for earrings. Some markings on left side of face. End of nose is broken off. Back of piece appears to be broken.
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Gift of Mr. Oliver Purrington
Title: Head of a Woman
Description:
Head of a woman with an elaborate headdress and well-articulated features.
Piece is broken on a diagonal below the chin.
Incised decorations on headdress and for earrings.
Some markings on left side of face.
End of nose is broken off.
Back of piece appears to be broken.
Related Results
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of white wove paper, each 34.7 x 27.1 cm. Pages numbered at l.l. of verso in graphite. Drawings i...
Pelike depicting Helen and Paris
Pelike depicting Helen and Paris
The scene on the front of the pelike (jar) comprises five figures: a couple consisting of a woman and a young man, flanked by a boy and second woman, respectively. A small Eros flu...
MODERN SCULPTURE
MODERN SCULPTURE
Stone sculpture; sandstone head. Orange-yellow fine-grained sandstone. Short hair, no fringe, cut around the ears, lumpy appearance as if thick and curly; there is a groove running...
Model of a Surinamese Creole headscarf
Model of a Surinamese Creole headscarf
Small model of an angisa, printed with roses and with the name "kawna hede"; the first part of this name refers to a type of music or instrument, the second meaning head.‖ Through ...
Cotton Surinamese Creole headscarf
Cotton Surinamese Creole headscarf
Very large headscarf (so possibly a show model), folded in 'bow'ede', bow head, or possibly otobaka. The name of the pattern means as much as 'You ugly, you'll forget all the good ...
Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
In 1887, Gauguin and Charles Laval went to Panama, and then to Martinique, searching for a warm, healthy climate and a cheap place to live a natural, "savage" life. Residing during...
Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Woman at a Tree, with Dionysos and a Satyr; Woman with Eros and Two Satyrs
Calyx Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Woman at a Tree, with Dionysos and a Satyr; Woman with Eros and Two Satyrs
Side A: In the center, a woman clad in a black-bordered mantle which leaves the upper part of her breast and right arm bare. Hovering over her left shoulder a nude winged Eros exte...