From the "Egyptian Symbols" section of the "Art of Ancient Egypt" chapter (Chapter 3). Includes: White Crown of Upper Egypt; Red Crown of Lower Egypt (showing cobra and false beard); Double crown of unified Egypt; wedjat (eye of...
Sculpture; Portraits; Men; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Upper class; Clothing & dress; Headdresses; Headgear; Snakes; Reptiles; Cobras; Power (Social sciences); Symbols; Gods; People associated with religion; Myths;...
Portrait bust. "Several statues portraying Antinous as Osiris share the same features. They represent the young Bithynian, who drowned in the Nile in 130 A.D., wearing a nemes, an Egyptian headdress made of starched cloth, decorated in front...
"This head of Isis, turned to the right, with delicately parted lips, is almost entirely intact except for the ends of a few locks of hair and the left edge of her tiara. The neck stops at a recessed fitting, a tenon, indicating that the head...
"Broodthaer's Musée d'Arte Moderne assumed various forms. The 'Department of Eagles', which contained the exhibits pictured here, had further permutations in other venues. In a Düsseldorf showing of 1970 the museum's 'nineteenth-century'...
From Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV. "The seated statue of Khafre is one of a series of similar statues carved for the pharaoh's valley temple near the Great Sphinx. The stone is diorite, an exceptionally hard dark stone brought some 400 miles down...
Architecture; Temples; Religious facilities; Buildings; Paintings; Murals; Storytelling; Myths; Legends; Fictitious characters; Supernatural beings; Goddesses; Women; People associated with religion; Men; Nudes; Clothing & dress; Wreaths; Horns...
"The fresco depicts Io, left on the rocks at Canopus by the river god; here she takes the hand of Isis, who waits for her with a cobra in her left hand and a crocodile under her feet." (Caption, p. 96)
