Man from Schaffhausen Unterklettgau.
Man from Schaffhausen Unterklettgau.
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Woman from Appenzell Innerrhoden.
Woman from Appenzell Innerrhoden.
Woman from Aargau in Freiaemter
Woman from Aargau in Freiaemter.
Woman from Bern Simmental. Swiss national costumes.
Woman from Bern Simmental. Source: The Swiss national costumes of XVII – XIX century originals. Original recordings from the Swiss costume festival. Zurich 14 March 1896. Additional galleries of Switzerland costumes:… Read More
The Sphinx, sister of Hydra, Chimera, Kerberos, and Orthos.
Ancient Greek mythology. The Sphinx was considered a demon of destruction and doom.
Pan with a human body and the legs of a goat. Follower of Bacchus.
The scholars and writers on antiquities, up to the time of Winckelmann, apply the term Fauns to the human figures with tails and pointed ears, while they term the figures with goat’s legs sometimes Pans, at other times Satyrs.
Roman emperor Septimus Severus in Paludamentum and Circular Fibula.
Septimius Severus was born in Africa of Roman parents; he died at York in the year 211 a. D. after a severe illness at the age of sixty-six. This bust was found in the year 1776 on the Palatine Hill, in the part of the Palace of the Cæsars now occupied by the Villa Magnani.
Bust of a young and beardless satyr, with the pointed ears of a goat.
Bust of a young and beardless satyr, distinguished, as usual, by the pointed ears of a goat, and by hair in front shaggy and rough, like that of the same animal.
Female bust of a Bacchante. Maenad of Dionysiac cycle.
This bust has been called that of a Maenad or Bacchante, an attribution which the comparison of other Bacchic types would seem fully to justify.
Asiatic Female with head-dress Cidaris. Persian Phoenician origin.
This bust has been explained as that of Adonis. The head-dress is essentially of Eastern origin, and the cap is analogous to that which is considered peculiar to the Phrygian and Persian races.