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Nestoris (two-handled jar) with Mythological Scenes
Nestoris (two-handled jar) with Mythological Scenes
Red-figured Lucanian Type II nestoris. Broad ring foot with mid-length stem. Body flares from stem, rounds up, and turns in sharply to form a relatively narrow, flat shoulder. Neck...
Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Theseus and Poseidon; Musician and Audience
Column Krater (mixing bowl for wine and water): Theseus and Poseidon; Musician and Audience
On one side: the Athenian hero Theseus visits his divine father Poseidon. Theseus’s mother was Aethra, and ancient sources sometimes consider him to be the son of her husband, Aege...
The goddess Calypso rescues Odysseus
The goddess Calypso rescues Odysseus
The subject is unusual and disputed. In Sluijter-Seiffert’s study of the artist, it is simply referred to as “Landscape with Nymph” and it has also been called “Scene from the scap...
Fans on a Stream in a Landscape (Ogi nagashi byōbu)
Fans on a Stream in a Landscape (Ogi nagashi byōbu)
This six-panel screen depicts a scene in which a variety of folding fans fall into a stream, the fully decorated fans appearing against the gold and now-tarnished silver background...
Hydria (water jar): Priam Driving Forth
Hydria (water jar): Priam Driving Forth
The main scene on this hydria illustrates King Priam charging forth in a chariot to ransom for the body of Hector. King Priam is seated in the chariot and on his right is his chari...
Tomáš Jan Pešina from Čechořid, Bishop of Samandrienský and Dean of the Holy See Chapter, elevates, on the basis of a palatinate awarded to him by Emperor Leopold I, Matthias Ignatius Ferdinand Nezbeda, originally from the Beginning to the Noble, awards h
Tomáš Jan Pešina from Čechořid, Bishop of Samandrienský and Dean of the Holy See Chapter, elevates, on the basis of a palatinate awarded to him by Emperor Leopold I, Matthias Ignatius Ferdinand Nezbeda, originally from the Beginning to the Noble, awards h
Character: description on folk. 2a - 3b, miniature on folk. 3a, 198 x 193 mm.
A blue shield with a golden spike in which there is a silver anchor, in blue fields there is one red r...
The Falls of Saint Anthony
The Falls of Saint Anthony
Between 1830 and 1836 the painter George Catlin followed the trail of Meriwetther Lewis and William Clark’s mythical expedition along the Mississippi, becoming the first artist to ...
Escena de teatre kabuki
Escena de teatre kabuki
This diptych shows the theatrical scene that explains the death of the popular Japanese bandit from the 16th century Ishikawa Goemon, who stole from the rich to help the poor. His ...