New Year Print: Red-Robed Figure on a Big Rooster to Welcome an Auspicious New Spring

On the shoulder: This scene depicts gorgons chasing after the hero Perseus, whose most famous accomplishment was beheading one of the gorgons, Medusa; presumably here we see the tw...

In the foreground of the painting is a large Virgin Mary holding the Christ Child at the bank of a river. The Christ Child clutches onto a book with his left hand, while his right ...

A thin, well-defined, relief lip borders this circular mirror's decorated back. The decorative scheme is organized into five concentric rings with the crouching-beast-form boss at ...

On one side: Herakles capturing the Erymanthian boar. The Erymanthian boar was a monster which plagued the central Peloponnese around Mt. Erymanthos, and it was one of Herakles’ la...

Reddish-brown jasper intaglio with a carving of an anguipede (head of a rooster, torso of a human, serpent legs), head turned to the right, right arm upraised holding a flail, and ...

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This hollow, handmade terracotta figurine takes the form of a nude, standing female figure. The figure has large semi-circular ears, each with two vertically-stacked, round, pierce...