EditorialDouble-headed figure, 2300?2200 B.C., Ecuador, Valdivia, Ceramic, H. 3 1/2 x W. 1 1/2 in. (8.9 x 3.8 cm), Ceramics-Sculpture, Some of the earliest known works of art in western South America have been found on Ecuador's Santa Elena Peninsula, where the...
EditorialThe landscape painter Dirk Dalens III (1688-1753) with his second wife Maria Schaack (born 1766) and the children Anna (born 1725), Willem (1737-60) and Jacobus (1741-63), Family portrait of the landscape painter Dirk Dalens III (1688-1753) with his se...
EditorialPair of bronze statuettes of a lion and a double-headed lion, Archaic, ca. 550?500 B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, H.: 2 1/2 x 4 1/4 in. (6.4 x 10.8 cm), Bronzes, These three solid-cast lions are said to have been found together. Certainly they are closely rel...
EditorialLimestone figure of a " temple boy" from the sanctuary of Apollo at Idalion (Dhali), Cyprus; Hellenistic, 300 BCE. Statuettes of crouching children were reglarly dedicated in Cypriot sanctuaries from about 450 BCE into the Hellenistic period....
EditorialStatuette of the god Osiris, property of the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, bronze, cast, bronze, cast and instigated, Total: Height: 75 cm, Three-dimensional sculptures, Osiris, god of the underworld, standing figure, The god Osiris took a firm p...
EditorialIthyphallic slave with fish basket and piglet, Clay, pressed into the mold, hand-modeled, fired (ceramic), Clay, Total: Height: 17.6 cm; Width: 7.5 cm; Depth: 4.9 cm (without phallus); Depth: 9 cm (with phallus), Ceramics, Man, Masculinity, Early Imper...
EditorialPraxiteles, Aphrodite at the toilet, Property of the Stiftung Hamburger Kunstsammlungen, Clay, hand modelled, pressed into the form, Clay, Total: Height: 48 cm, Ceramics, History of Venus (Aphrodite), Toilet of Venus, Middle Imperial Period, Roman Anti...
EditorialMaster of the David and Saint John Statuettes, (sculptor), Florentine, active late 15th century - early 16th century, David, late 15th - early 16th century, terracotta, overall: 50 x 17.4 cm (19 11/16 x 6 7/8 in.).