At left, a young fair skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands facing us, wearing only an ornate crown and jewels, a richly embroidered open robe around her shoulders. With a leopard at her feet ...

The man looks directly and intensely at us, his face has strong rugged features, a closed mouth, and broad nose, his ears appear slightly uneven on his head. Van Gogh’s ink strokes are similar to his ...

These two similarly sized disks are made of metal, which is coated in green rust, and were formed by spiraling a piece of metal wire tightly around itself. Where the wire comes to an end, on the ...

A long flat piece of mottled dark olive green jade with white flecks, is carved into a vertical rectangular shape with inward curving sides. The short, top side curves more sharply inward to form two ...

A long terracotta nail that has been inscribed along the top end with small symbols. It is tan and orange in color and has a small, flared top edge. It is shown laying vertically on a white background ...

Rome’s first emperor, Augustus (r. 30 BCE–14 CE), wanted his descendants to rule over the Roman Empire, but as his chosen successors died one by one, the power fell to his stepson, Tiberius (r. 14–37 ...

One third of the spike, on the left, seems to be a handle. At the end on the left it is a flat round tube for a smaller stretch, before being shaped into several flat faces, the tube becoming ...

Light shading and faintly sketched lines on cream colored paper depict a woman in profile. She appears to be dancing, arching her back and casting a look above and behind her as she steps forward. Her ...

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 ...

An employee at the Ministry of Finance, Victor Chocquet (1821–1891) met Degas in 1875, and by the second impressionist exhibition, in 1876, had become an avid supporter of the progressive artistic ...

A somber monochrome watercolor of mayhem and dissent at sea. The depiction of a sinking raft, with one furled and one billowing sail, stretches from one side of the drawing to the other. Great, curved ...

A floral vase containing large round cluster of small rust-colored flowers, reminiscent of hydrangeas, with a few green leaves poking out on left and right, rests on the edge of a table. The vase is ...