The wrapping with linen changed forever the shape of the human body and created a new being of divine character that was believed to be able to live forever.
Valley”—an image of the god Amun was conveyed from his temple at Karnak on the east bank
Claude drew inspiration from his close, constant study of nature and changing effects of light.
, while washing his hands, placed the decapitated head of Medusa beside a river bank
"Thebes: East Bank (Karnak and Luxor)."
Over the course of his long career, Goya moved from jolly and lighthearted to deeply pessimistic and searching in his paintings, drawings, etchings, and frescoes.
Between 1785 and 1788, he painted executives and their families from the Bank of
The young czar, feeling oppressed by the medieval traditions and ecclesiastical patriarchy of seventeenth-century Moscow, wanted to Westernize Russia in a hurry, defying the sluggish pace of history.
On that day, on a small island on the north bank of the Neva River, Peter cut two
in a leopard skin is being towed across the river to the necropolis on the West Bank
The Middle Kingdom (mid-Dynasty 11–Dynasty 13, ca. 2030–1640 B.C.) began when Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II reunited Upper and Lower Egypt, setting the stage for a second great flowering of Egyptian culture.
Nebhepetre Mentuhotep II at Deir el-Bahari; the tombs of officials on the West Bank
His main sanctuary was the immense temple complex at Karnak on the east bank of the
Examining Egyptian art during these 300 years reveals strong continuities in its traditions but also interactions with Greek art, whose forms and styles swept the world with Alexander’s armies.
Temples and communities on the Theban west bank also flourished, along with Ptolemaic
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