This terracotta is modeled after a marble relief on the inside of the Arch of Titus, in Rome. It shows soldiers carrying sacred trophies looted from the Temple of Jerusalem while they proceed through ...

This subject’s furrowed brow and close-cropped hair, rendered with simple chisel marks, place this portrait in the third century, a time of prolonged political upheaval, when Roman emperors were ...

A light-skinned, gray haired man faces the viewer, visible from the chest up. He has long gray hair that is tied back with a black ribbon. His eyes are blue, and his complexion is pink, especially ...

Degas displayed the wax figure after which this bronze was cast at the sixth impressionist exhibition, in 1881. The only sculpture that he ever presented publicly, the work caused an uproar for its ...

With her large body and frontal pose, the Virgin here functions as a throne for Christ, a visual expression of her status as the Mother of God and source of wisdom. While the symmetry and rigid ...

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Quickly brushed, brightly painted, slanting strokes depict a still life of a bowl of peaches on a table at center left. Four ripe peaches in orange and yellow are visible piled into a round porcelain ...

Under a bower of twining flowered branches, a woman and a man sit naked, side by side in a garden, sharing a kiss. A long, pale orange serpent is coiled along the ground at their feet, its head rising ...

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At center, a male figure nude except for a loincloth floats above the ground in a stone archway of a darkened room, facing the viewer with outstretched arms. His eyes look upward and left as rays of ...

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An ink and watercolor drawing of two figures using a plank of wood and the base of an ancient column as a seesaw. One figure sits at the bottom of the seesaw, while the other is raised in the air with ...