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Altars

ALTARS

Armours

ARMOURS

Book Illumination

BOOK ILLUMINATION

Carvings

CARVINGS

Ceramic

CERAMIC

Drawing

DRAWING

Enamel

ENAMEL

Engravings

ENGRAVINGS

Fresco and Wallpainting

FRESCO AND WALLPAINTING

Goldsmith Works

GOLDSMITH WORKS

Handicraft

HANDICRAFT

Jewelry

JEWELRY

Mosaics

MOSAICS

Painting

PAINTING

Plastic Arts

PLASTIC ARTS

Posters

POSTERS

Prints

PRINTS

Relief

RELIEF

Sculpture

SCULPTURE

Silverwork

SILVERWORK

Textile Works

TEXTILE WORKS

Watercolour

WATERCOLOUR

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Cicero, Roman orator and statesman. Roman marble bust; 93cm; middle of the 1st century CE. Inv. MC0589
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Cicero, Roman orator and statesman. Roman marble bust; 93cm; middle of the 1st...

Dionysus or Bacchus. Bronze statue from Pompeii, Italy; 1st-3rd century CE.
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Dionysus or Bacchus. Bronze statue from Pompeii, Italy; 1st-3rd century CE.

Lady of Elche. Painted limestone bust; from L'Alcúdia, Spain; 4th century BCE. The famous but controversial "Lady of Elche" (Dama d'Elx in Catalan, Dama de Elche in Spanish) is a polychrome stone bust that was revealed as found by chance in 1897 at L'Alcúdia, an archaeological site that was on a private estate about 2 km, south of Elx (Spanish Elche) (Alicante, Land of Valencia, Spain). The Lady of Elx is generally believed to be Iberian art of the 4th century BCE, or of the Hellenistic or the Roman periods. The bust is usually thought to represent a woman wearing a very complex headdress and big coils on each side of the face. A minority interpretation sees it representing a man.
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Lady of Elche. Painted limestone bust; from L'Alcúdia, Spain; 4th century BCE....

Bronze fibula in shape of a human figure. Celtic; from Hradek near Manetin, Bohemia; 450 BCE.
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Bronze fibula in shape of a human figure. Celtic; from Hradek near Manetin, Boh...

Animal merchant. Detail of the middle zone of the embossed and engraved sheet-bronze Benvenuti Situla from Este, Italy. Height of the frieze: 5.5cm Inv. 4667
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Animal merchant. Detail of the middle zone of the embossed and engraved sheet-b...

Bronze leaf depicting woman in sacred ceremonial dress. From Este, Italy; 6th century BCE.
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Bronze leaf depicting woman in sacred ceremonial dress. From Este, Italy; 6th c...

Aristotle, philosopher, teacher of Alexander the Great, (384-332 BCE). Roman marble copy of a Greek bronze.
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Aristotle, philosopher, teacher of Alexander the Great, (384-332 BCE). Roman ma...

Demosthenes, Roman marble bust.
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Demosthenes, Roman marble bust.

Bimaran Reliquary, from stupa 2 at Bimaran, Gandhara (Afghanistan). The inscription on the steatite casket in which the reliquary was kept, states that it contained some of the bones of the Buddha; when found in the 19th century, the bones were missing, but there were burnt pearls, beads of precious and semi-precious stones and four coins, which date the reliquary to about 50 CE. In the central arch the Buddha, with two figures facing him on either side. OA 1900.2-9.1
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Bimaran Reliquary, from stupa 2 at Bimaran, Gandhara (Afghanistan). The inscrip...

Seated grey schist figure of Hariti with children, Gandhara, India, 2nd - 3rd CE. Hariti, once a malevolent ogress, converted to Buddhism and became a protectress of children. She wears a thin, pleated dress, holds a child in her lap and is surrounded by other children. OA 1886.6-11.1
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Seated grey schist figure of Hariti with children, Gandhara, India, 2nd - 3rd C...

Dark grey schist head from a statue of the Buddha, 2nd CE Gandhara, India. This sculpture, like most of the Buddhist art from Gandhara, can be dated between the first to the fifth centuries. As a result of the various cultures that settled or moved along the trade routes in the region, the sculptures have taken on a distinctive style, combining Graeco-Roman, Indian, Chinese and Central Asian influences. OA 1929.11-4.1
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Dark grey schist head from a statue of the Buddha, 2nd CE Gandhara, India. This...

Red sandstone figure of a tirthankara, India, 3rd CE. In Indian Jainism, 24 tirthankaras, Jinas or "ford-makers" make passages for their followers to cross from suffering and pain to happiness. This figure has the srivatsa mark on his chest and a nimbus to make him a Jina. OA 1901.12-24.5
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Red sandstone figure of a tirthankara, India, 3rd CE. In Indian Jainism, 24 tirt...