Category Archives: Things Past

Weeping Siren

Posted on November 30, 2011 by ubu507

Greek, Late Classical Period, about 375–325 B.C. Marble, from Mount Pentelikon, near Athens Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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Winged Siren

Posted on November 30, 2011 by ubu507

Roman Provincial, Imperial Period, late 1st century A.D. Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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Siren

Posted on November 30, 2011 by ubu507

from the rim of a lebes Greek, Orientalizing Period, mid-7th century B.C. Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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Shiva watches Parvati Sleep

Posted on November 29, 2011 by ubu507

Indian, Pahari, about 1780–90 Garhwal or Kangra, Punjab Hills, Northern India Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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the Wall

Posted on November 27, 2011 by ubu507
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Temptation of St Anthony

Posted on November 26, 2011 by ubu507

c. 1520 COCK, Jan Wellens de (b. ca. 1490, Leiden, d. before 1529, Antwerpen) Oil on panel, 60 x 46 cm Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

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Big Fishes Eat Little Fishes

Posted on November 17, 2011 by ubu507

c. 1556 BRUEGEL, Pieter the Elder (b. ca. 1525, Breughel, d. 1569, Bruxelles) Engraving, 229 x 298 mm British Museum, London

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Hanuman seduces a woman

Posted on November 16, 2011 by ubu507

possibly Benjakai (daughter of the half-demon Vibhishana). Javanese, Majapahit period, 14th–15th century probably Trowulan, Eastern Java, Indonesia  Museum of Fine Arts Boston

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Mask for kagura performance

Posted on November 2, 2011 by ubu507

Japan The British Museum

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Autumn Apparition

Posted on October 13, 2011 by ubu507
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