Ancient Egyptian statuette (painted wood) of one Merer. Artist unknown; ca. 1981-1802 BCE (10th or 11th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Ancient Egyptian statuette (painted wood) of one Merer. Artist unknown; ca. 1981-1802 BCE (10th or 11th Dynasty, Middle Kingdom). Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Captivating works by Netherlands-based artist David Hummelen.
David’s works are deliberate compositions consisting of several transparent shapes placed and combined in such a way that different gradations of reflection and saturation arise, as well as a sense of three-dimension-ality. Intuition and experimentation play important roles in Hummelen’s process, so that he himself is often surprised by the result.
A scene from the Book of the Earth in the tomb of Queen and Pharaoh Tawosret or Tausret. The artist,
Ippolito Rosellini, labelled the winged figure “the spirit of Khnum”, presumably based on its ram head. However,
Joshua Aaron Roberson in The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Earth calls it a “Ram-headed Solar Bird”; he cites Erik Hornung’s The Valley of the Kings, which describes it as a combination of the sun-god’s night and day forms. Inscriptions on the same scene from a different tomb identify it as the Egyptian king in the form of Osiris. That’s a lot of symbolism packed into a single figure.
The Great Nebula in Orion, an immense, nearby starbirth region, probably the most famous of all astronomical nebulas. Here, glowing gas surrounds hot young stars at the edge of an immense interstellar molecular cloud only 1500 light-years away.
Made by Reinhold Wittich
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A fragment of a hand from a colossal statue bearing the royal cartouche of king Amenhotep III. New Kingdom, 18th Dynasty, reign of Amenhotep III,
ca. 1391-1353 BC. Karnak Temple Complex.
Naked Sea Angels (Clione limacina) are small, free swimming snails. The shell has been lost and the foot has been modified into wing-like paddles for swimming.
