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Neo-Babylonian Cylinder Seal with Rampant Sphinxes, 7th-6th Century BC
Made of chalcedony, with opposed rampant sphinxes flanking a stylized “Tree of Life” with a winged sun-disc above, along with an eight-pointed star and crescent moon.
In Mesopotamian mythology, a crescent is a symbol of the moon god, Sin, while the eight-pointed star representsIshtar, the goddess of love and war. The winged solar disc symbolizes Shamash, the sun god. The winged human-headed animals portrayed here are referred to as “sphinxes.” They were a common motif in Mesopotamian art and are considered to be guardian type entities. The meaning of the stylized “tree of life” is still unknown and a much debated subject.
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A list of paintings and sculptures from the Louvre in order of appearance as seen in Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s new music video Apeshit (from their new album Everything is Love):
PART 1
1.La Gioconda (Mona Lisa)(1503-1519), Leonardo da Vinci.
2.The Oath of the Horatii (1784), Jacques-Louis David.
3.The Great Sphinx of Tanis (c. 2600 BCE), Ancient Egyptian.
4.Winged Victory of Samothrace(c. 190 BCE), Hellenistic.
5.The Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon and the Coronation of Empress Josephine on December 2, 1804 (1806-1807), Jacques-Louis David.
6.The Intervention of the Sabine Women (1799), Jacques-Louis David.
PART 2 here.
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Photographe: Milton H Greene
Modèle: Omar Sharif
Date: 31/08/1963
Séance: au musée du Louvre, pour le magazine “Life”
source: enchères Profiles in History sur https://t.co/sMWbo4cs0E
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Sphinx and pyramids, Egypt. Date: circa 1870
© Mary Evans Picture Library/Pump Park Photography
https://www.prints-online.com/sphinx-pyramids-egypt-14137804.html
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The pyramids of Giza, Egypt, 1880s, photographed by G. Lékégian & Cie. (New York Public Library)
https://twitter.com/archaeologyart/status/1463521875481538563?t=p8DR5taUzR-Re8h73RiQ5g&s=19
These unique initials are among the finest found in our collection. Rather than being printed from woodblocks, these specimens were engraved on a metal plate. While this process is more laborious, the results are far superior, with crisp, deep detail.
Images from: Norden, Frederik Ludvig. Travels in Egypt and Nubia. London: Printed by Lockyer Davis and Charles Reymers, 1757.
Call number: DT51 .N82 1757
Link to catalog record: https://bit.ly/3pBtdDn
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FromFictitious & Symbolic Creatures In Art with Special Reference To Their Use in British Heraldry by John Vinycomb, 1906.
Gazing out over the sands of Egypt for thousands of years: strange sphinxes share their riddles in my sphinx gallery.
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