Ua Zit, Wadjet, Wedjat, Eye of Horus
Vitastjerna's dream from the Gutasaga with the three entwined snakes symbolizing Graip, Gute and Gunfjaun, with her at the bottom, Gotland, Sweden. Now in Fornsalen museum, Visby.
Gustav Klimt, 1900-1907, Klimt University of Vienna Ceiling Paintings. The bottom portion of the Medicine picture, showing Hygieia
Alexander Handyside Ritchie, College of Physicians, Queen Street, Edinburgh
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Small statue of Hygieia. Mid-2nd century C.E., Archaeological Museum of Rhodes
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Statue (head) of the goddess Hygieia, daughter of Asclepius, by the Greek sculptor Scopas (c. 395 BC – 350 BC). From the temple of Athena Alea at Tegea, exhibited at the National Archaeological Museum of Athens.
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Venus-Hygieia. Roman, made in Asia Minor, about A.D.200, Getty Villa
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Hygieia fountain in the city hall courtyard, Hamburg, Germany
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Hygieia fountain in the city hall courtyard, Hamburg, Germany
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Buto, Cobra Goddess of Lower Egypt (also known as Ua Zit, Uatchit, Udjat, Wadjet, Wadjit, Edjo). She was portrayed as the Uranus cobra worn on the Pharaoh’s brow.
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(painting from the tomb of Nefertari, ca 1270 BC)
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Amenhotep II wearing the Uraeus (painting, ca. 1400 BC)
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Albrecht Durer, 1507, Northern Renaissance: Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain
Max Beckmann, 1917, Expressionism
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Neoclassicism
Salvador Dali, 1941, Realism, Surrealism
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1530, Northern Renaissance: Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna, Austria
Lucas Cranach the Elder, 1528, Northern Renaissance: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Thomas Cole, 1827 - 1828, Romanticism
Ford Madox Brown, Romanticism
Frederick Morgan, 1891, Romanticism
Edvard Munch, 1918, Expressionism
Paul Gauguin, 1902; French Polynesia, Post-Impressionism
Fernand Leger, 1935 - 1939, Purism: Musee National Fernand Leger, Biot, France
Lucas Cranach the Elder, c.1538, Germany, Northern Renaissance
Masaccio, c.1427, Early Renaissance: Santa Maria del Carmine, Florence, Italy
Albrecht Durer, 1504, Northern Renaissance: Morgan Library and Museum (Pierpont Morgan Library), New York City, NY, US
Marc Chagall, 1912; Paris, France, Cubism: Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, US
Tamara de Lempicka, 1932, Art Deco
Marc Chagall, 1960; France, Naïve Art (Primitivism)
Parmigianino, c.1531 - c.1539, Mannerism (Late Renaissance): Sanctuary of Santa Maria della Steccata, Parma, Italy
from the 'Stanza della Segnatura' Raphael, c.1508 - 1511, High Renaissance: Vatican Museums, Vatican
Victor Brauner, 1923, Expressionism
Michelangelo, 1512, High Renaissance: Sistine Chapel Paintings
Pavel Filonov, 1912 - 1913, Analytical Realism
Peter Paul Rubens, c.1597, Baroque
Marcel Duchamp, c.1910; France, Post-Impressionism: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, US
Francis Picabia, c.1931, Surrealism
Hans Baldung, 1531, Northern Renaissance: Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid, Spain
Mabuse, c.1527, Northern Renaissance
Mabuse, 1525, Northern Renaissance
Marc Chagall, 1961; France, Surrealism
James Tissot, c.1875, Symbolism
Ernst Fuchs, 1984, Fantastic Realism
Fernando Botero, 1968, Naïve Art (Primitivism)
Maerten van Heemskerck, c.1550, Mannerism (Late Renaissance)
Wifredo Lam, 1969
Jean Benoit, Surrealism
Frank Eugene, 1898, Pictorialism
Henri Rousseau, c.1906 - 1907, Naïve Art (Primitivism): Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Adriaen van der Werff (1659–1722): Louvre Museum
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903)
Paul Gauguin (1848–1903): Yale University Art Gallery (Inventory)
Paul Gauguin, 1848–1903
Paul Gauguin, 1892, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Carlos Alonso, 1965, Expressionism
John Collier, 1886
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, 1868, Romanticism: Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DE, US
According to ancient Judaic myth, Lilith is "the first wife of Adam" and is associated with the seduction of men and the murder of children. She is shown as a "powerful and evil temptress" and as "an iconic, Amazon-like female with long, flowing hair."
Franz Stuck, 1893, Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany, image via WikiArt
Kiki Smith, 1994, Feminist Art
Lilith, Adam's First Wife, illustration from the poem Faust, from Goethe's Walpurgisnacht/ Walpurgis Night; Ernst Barlach: 1923, McMaster Museum of Art
Publisher: CASSIRER, Paul
Dimensions: Block: 19.2 x 14.3 cm (7 9/16 x 5 5/8 in.) Support: 31.4 x 23.2 cm (12 3/8 x 9 1/8 in.)
Medium: Woodcut on paper
Mark Rothko, 1945, Surrealism
Artemisia Gentileschi, 1633-35, Private Collection, Rome, Italy
Edmonia Lewis, carved 1876, marble, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Historical Society of Forest Park, Illinois, 1994.17
Cleopatra (69 — 30 BCE), the legendary queen of Egypt from 51 to 30 BCE, is often best known for her dramatic suicide, allegedly from the fatal bite of a poisonous snake. Here, Edmonia Lewis portrayed Cleopatra in the moment after her death, wearing her royal attire, in majestic repose on a throne. The identical sphinx heads flanking the throne represent the twins she bore with Roman general Marc Antony, while the hieroglyphics on the side have no meaning. Lewis was working at a time when Neoclassicism was a popular artistic style that favored classical, Biblical, or literary themes—thus Cleopatra was a common subject. Unlike her contemporaries who often depicted an idealized Cleopatra merely contemplating suicide, Lewis showed the queen’s death more realistically, after the asp’s venom had taken hold—an attribute viewed as “ghastly” and “absolutely repellant” in its day (William J. Clark, Great American Sculpture, 1878). Despite this, the piece was first exhibited to great acclaim at the Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 1876 and critics raved that it was the most impressive American sculpture in the show. Not long after its debut, however, Death of Cleopatra was presumed lost for almost a century—appearing at a Chicago saloon, marking a horse’s grave at a suburban racetrack, and eventually reappearing at a salvage yard in the 1980s. The Museum has an online exhibit that documents the statue’s storied history and conservation.
John William Waterhouse, c.1887, Romanticism
John Sartain, 1885, Engraving depicting Caesar Augustus' now lost painting of Cleopatra VII in encaustic, which was discovered at Emperor Hadrian's Villa (near Tivoli, Italy) in 1818. She is seen here wearing the golden radiant crown of the Ptolemaic rulers (Sartain, 1885, pp. 41, 44) and being bitten by an asp in an act of suicide. She also wears the knot of Isis (i.e. tyet) around her neck, which corresponds to Plutarch's description of her wearing the robes of the Egyptian goddess Isis (Plutarch's Lives, translated by Bernadotte Perrin, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1920, p. 9.)
Statue of queen Cleopatra VII. Basalt, second half of the first century BC. Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg
Egypt, 2nd century A.D., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, image via Wikimedia Commons courtesy of LACMA
detail from the Tomb of Francis II, Duke of Brittany and his wives, Cathedral of Sts. Peter and Paul, Nantes, France
detail from Cassone made for Lorenzo Morelli, portrait attributed to Domenico de Zanobi, Courtauld Gallery
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Andrea della Robbia, Italian, c. 1475, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1921
Bernhard Strigel, Northern Renaissance
Franz Stuck, 1891, Private Collection, image via WikiArt
Judy Chicago, Snake Goddess Place Setting (from The Dinner Party), 1979; Mixed media; Collection of Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; Photo courtesy of Betty Boyd Dettre Library & Research Center, National Museum of Women in the Arts; © Judy Chicago
Johann Heinrich Tischbein (1722–1789), 1767: Fogg art Museum
Arnold Böcklin, 1872 , Symbolism
Jacob Jordaens, 1653, Baroque: Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Sir Lawrence Alma-Tadema, 1883, Romanticism
Artemisia Gentileschi, c.1620, Private collection Cavallini-Sgarbi Foundation, Ferrara, Italy
Alexandre Cabanel, 1887, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp, Belgium
Sarah Stern
Michelangelo, 1534, High Renaissance: Uffizi Gallery, Florence, Italy
Guido Reni, c.1639, Baroque: Sanssouci, Potsdam, Germany
John Collier, 1910, Romanticism
Justus van Egmont, 1680
Louis Moritz, 1823-1825, Rijksmuseum
Alexandre Cabanel, Academicism
Michele Desubleo, c.1601-76, Fondazione Cariplo, Milan, Italy
Guercino, 1591-1666, Musei di Strada Nuova
Girolamo Masini, 1882, Galleria d'Arte Moderna di Roma Capitale