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 ...
On the side of the coin on the left is the head of a man facing right, wearing the skin from an elephant's head, trunk turned up and tusks protruding out, small dots surround the border. The other ...
On the side of the coin on the left is a man's head facing left, tendrils of curly hair held in place by a laurel wreath; surrounding the border, the Latin characters: N E R O / C L A V D I V S / C A ...
Rising from a roughly cut base of marble resembling a large rock, two nude figures are delicately carved and polished smooth. A young man on his knees holds his arms behind his back, leaning forward ...
A nude female figure balances perfectly on her straight right leg while her left leg gracefully extends upward, toes pointing, higher than the rest of her body. She is bent at the hips and her arms ...
In this graphite drawing with ink outlines, a large letter V in a serif font is front and center. Behind the V is a statue of the Greek god Pan, with goat’s ears and horns protruding from curled locks ...
At center top, a demonic figure with bat-like wings and red skin crouches atop a stone pillar as it is toppling. He looks downward, casting flames from his outstretched hands onto the scene below him.
A key figure in both Dada and surrealism, Ernst painted this work after moving from Cologne to Paris, during a pivotal period when he was shifting away from the collage technique of his Dada ...
A woman rests her fair-skinned face on her hand with elbows bent on her knees in front of her chest. Her delicate fingers frame her face. Her long wavey light brown hair extends down her back, she ...
The vessel is round, narrowing slightly at the top and base with two high handles. It is painted black and in red there is a seated figure holding two spears. There are three other figures standing ...
One of the earliest forms of Chinese writing is preserved in the simple inscriptions on bronze vessels from the late Shang period. Integrally cast into the bronzes — as opposed to being incised into ...
The vessel has a wide shallow rim and two horizontal handles and one long handle which connects to the rim. In red, black, and yellow there is a scene in two tiers. The lower tier depicts a man ...