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Headless Statue of a Draped Woman
View through Harvard Museums
Department of Ancient and Byzantine Art & Numismatics
Purchased in 1928 through Harold W. Parsons from M. Altounian-Lorbet Paris.
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum Bequest of Grenville L. Winthrop
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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...
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Medea Boiling a Ram
Neck Amphora (storage jar): Medea Boiling a Ram
Both sides of this vase depict an episode from the story of Medea, the daughter of Aeetes, king of Colchis (in modern-day Georgia). When the Greek hero Jason came with the Argonaut...
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...
Statue of the Cloister Mother Mary
Statue of the Cloister Mother Mary
3D model of a replica of the statue described below. Legend has it that the statue was found in a barn wall on the farm at Skriðuklaustur. Carved from oak, it is 71 cm tall and was...
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...
Column Krater (bowl for mixing wine and water): Komos Scene
Column Krater (bowl for mixing wine and water): Komos Scene
On one side, two nude women, both wearing headdresses and adorned with earrings and necklaces are chased by two men nude men. The woman on the right holds a wine cup (skyphos) in h...
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Gardens as Architectural Heritage of the Bastion Castle Ensemble
Gardens as Architectural Heritage of the Bastion Castle Ensemble
Historic gardens are often seen in the context of botanical heritage, which emphasizes their aesthetic and botanical value. Yet, their architectural importance as an integral part ...
“DixieCarmen”: War, Race, and Identity in Oscar Hammerstein'sCarmen Jones(1943)
“DixieCarmen”: War, Race, and Identity in Oscar Hammerstein'sCarmen Jones(1943)
AbstractIn December 1943, an all–African American cast starred in the Broadway premiere ofCarmen Jones, Oscar Hammerstein II's adaptation of Georges Bizet'sCarmen. When Hammerstein...
“The Halo Paul Celan”. Revisiting Romanian manuscripts of Paul Celan
“The Halo Paul Celan”. Revisiting Romanian manuscripts of Paul Celan
This paper aims to explore Paul Celan’s writings in the Romanian language which have been preserved as manuscripts, and their significance to his very earliest poetry. Firstly, I w...
Philip Cheung, Zayed and Cruise Ship, Khor Fakkan, Sharjah (2015)
Philip Cheung, Zayed and Cruise Ship, Khor Fakkan, Sharjah (2015)
Archival Pigment Print, 40 × 30 in...