EditorialWallpainting from Dun Huang, X century showing Siddartha future Buddha with groom mounted on horse, Tang dynasty, 7th cetury. anonymous. Chinese School (7th century).
EditorialSennufer and his sister Merit. A priest sacrificing. Wallpainting in the tomb-chamber of Sennufer, Mayor of Thebes and overseer under Pharaoh Amenophis II (18th Dynasty). Vault and pillars are decorated with vine branches. Cemetery of Sheikh Abd al-Qur...
EditorialWallpainting from Dun Huang, X century showing Siddartha future Buddha with groom mounted on horse, Tang dynasty, 7th cetury. anonymous. Chinese school.
EditorialCoastal landscape: Constructions on shore, battleship and fishermen at work (pulling in a net). Second half of the first century; found in a villa rustica in Boscoreale, Italy in 1897. Wallpainting; 42 x 72cm P 25.
EditorialFarmhands harvesting. Wallpainting in the tomb of the Scribe Mennah, Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 18th Dynasty (1554-1305 BCE), New Kingdom.
EditorialHarpist playing and singing to Anhour Khaou, chief builder at Thebes (fan: symbol of office), and to his wife (earring). Only painting of a singing harpist. Wallpainting in Anhour Khaou's tomb, carved 10 m below ground level, in the cemetery of Deir el...
EditorialFowling in the marshes; fragment of a wallpainting from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes. 18th dynasty, around 1350 BCE. Nebamun stands on a small papyrus boat, with his wife Hatshepsut behind and his son below him. He lets fly a throwstick into a mass of b...
EditorialThe Three Graces. Wallpainting, copy (probably time of Vespasian, 1st CE)) of a Hellenistic original, from Pompeii, IV, Insula Occidentalis INV. 9231.
EditorialNight and day journey of the sun. -The goddess Nut swallowed the sun at night and gave birth to it again each morning. Wallpainting on the ceiling of the tomb of Ramses VI, Valley of the Kings, Biban el-Muluk, Thebes. 20th Dynasty (1196-1080 BCE), New ...
EditorialRekhmere inspects brickmaking and smelting workmen. Wallpainting in the tomb of Rekhmere, vizier under Pharaohs Thutmosis III and Amenophis II (18th Dynasty, 16th-14th BCE) in the cemetery of Sheikh Abd al-Qurnah.
EditorialFarmhands harvesting. Wallpainting in the tomb of the Scribe Mennah, Deir el-Medina, Thebes, Egypt. 18th Dynasty (1554-1305 BCE), New Kingdom.
EditorialPeasant couple harvesting. Wallpainting in the vaulted tomb chamber of Sennedjem (No. 1), a necropolis officer of the early Ramessid Period (18th Dynasty), in the cemetery of Deir el-Medina.
EditorialCoastal landscape: Constructions on shore, battleship and fishermen at work (pulling in a net). Second half of the first century; found in a villa rustica in Boscoreale, Italy in 1897. Wallpainting; 42 x 72cm P 25.
EditorialFragment of a wallpainting: God with flowers and two nymphs End of the 1st century CE; Pompeii, house of the Vestales H.: 0,92m; W.: 1,78m CC 70.
EditorialSemitic Bedouins in their traditional striped robes ask permission to enter Egypt. Detail of 08-01-10 / 36. A man leads an antelope by the horns followed by armed war-riors. The wallpainting is thought to resemble a Jewish tribe arriving in Egypt. Midd...
EditorialNight and day journey of the sun. -The goddess Nut swallowed the sun at night and gave birth to it again each morning. Wallpainting on the ceiling of the tomb of Ramses VI, Valley of the Kings, Biban el-Muluk, Thebes. 20th Dynasty (1196-1080 BCE), New ...
EditorialGirl musicians with harp and string instruments. Detail of a wallpainting in the tomb of Rekhmere, vizier under the Pharaohs Thutmosis III and Amenophis II (18th Dynasty, 16th-14th BCE), in the cemetery of Sheikh Abd al-Qurnah.
EditorialAnhour Khaou, chief builder at Thebes, seated with his wife (earring) and grandchildren, gently holding a lock of one of the granddaughters. Wallpainting in Anhour Khaou's tomb, carved 10 m below ground level in the cemetery of Deir el-Medina, Thebes, ...
EditorialFowling in the marshes; fragment of a wallpainting from the tomb of Nebamun, Thebes. 18th dynasty, around 1350 BCE. Nebamun stands on a small papyrus boat, with his wife Hatshepsut behind and his son below him. He lets fly a throwstick into a mass of b...