Antique Idols

Pilot fish (Naucrates ductor) 16. Moorish idol (Zanclus cornutus) 17. Gourami (Osphronemidae species) 18.

Weighing 6.74 kgs, its robust yet finely detailed construction reflects the durability required for chariots that traversed festival routes, carrying sacred idols amid vibrant celebr...

Illustrated are a feather ornament, a ring, a bracelet, headdresses, a shell necklace, a plaited straw belt, a Vaquois-leaf hat, a container for lime associated with the fruit of Mel...

Impresive corn stalk paste sculpture of our Lady of Guadalupe, found in wester México, circa 1900 Since pre-Cortés times, the purepechas recreated their idols in figures made from s...

It illustrates various aspects of their life, from the preparation of cassava and coffee to their dwellings, costumes, and idols. An image of a sugar mill points to the colonial econ...

Apart from beautiful metal objects a lot of stone cups, chalices and idols were discovered. This example has no signs of mechanical tools, a subtle incrustation enhancing the alabast...

The capitals are carved with Baphomets holding two figures by the hair for one and fantastic birds for the other. Idol worshiped by the Knights of the Order of the Temple, most of...

Old print depicting Chinese Deities / Idols, the Deity of immortality and the Deity of lust.

On his return, he finds the Israelites not praising God but worshipping a pagan idol. He is overcome with anger, hence his intensity, and throws the tablets detailing The Ten Command...

Antique print titled 'Interieur d'un Temple d'Idoles tiré du Nieuhof'. View of the interior of a Chinese temple.

The „Sedes Sapientiae" probably is the idol of medieval Christianity and played an important part in the rural communities; the Sedes mediated between this world and the divine commu...

Rivière has chosen the moment when, mortally wounded by the people, Mâthô dies at the feet of Salammbô his idol crying: "I love you! I love you!" This model was exhibited at the ...

Half geisha, half ballerina, she steps towards the audience: she is both an untouchable idol and a woman ready to trade her affections, inviting her wealthy male admirers to join her...

In addition, his teraphim, statuettes, or idols, which depicted the family deities, had disappeared.

Originally from a standing figure, kiliya idols are often termed ‘stargazers’, on the basis of the backwards tilt of the head, as if looking up to the heavens.

However, with the introduction of Buddhism to Japan, idol worship was also introduced, and the idea that the gods follow the teachings of Buddha was also propagated at the same time ...

Reliquaries fell out of favor when Protestants objected to Catholics’ deep devotion to saints as idols. Today, our pair of silvered wooden reliquaries from 18th century France would ...

Maxentius, unable to convince her to sacrifice to idols, had sent to call the wisest men and fifty philosophers and orators who presented themselves and tried to divert her from fait...

Over thousands of years the tantric lingam has come to represent more than a physical or material form to be worshipped as an idol by the learned sages of the East and the West.

He also painted an altarpiece of San Giorgio tempted to sacricifice to the Idols (1743) for the church of the same name in Reggio-Emilia, and an Annunciation (1738) for the main alta...

However, it is possible to outline its iconography, in which some characteristics are highlighted: the number of martyrs, the emperor who indicates the idol and the palm of martyrdom...

In the centre foreground, the sacrifice takes place near a stone platform with sacred offerings laid before idols and carved wooden structures. Smoke rises from a ceremonial fire, ad...

Lyonel Feininger, 'Da-Da I' also titled by the artist 'Der Abgott' (The Idol), woodcut, 1918, a proof impression. Prasse W91.

In the fall of 1904—just months shy of his expected graduation—Bellows defied his father’s wishes and boarded a train to New York City in hopes of becoming a magazine illustrator lik...

Maxentius, failing to convince her to sacrifice to her idols, had sent for men who were wiser than her and fifty of her among philosophers and orators who presented themselves and tr...

At that time some Church leaders - unwilling to endure torture or death and become martyrs - had been ready to take such acts as worshipping the gods of the old pantheon, considered ...

Distressed to see Athens full of idols, Paul goes to the Areopagus, the high tribunal of Athens, to explain what he claimed. " Areopagus" literally means "Rock of Ares"; it was a pla...

Corinth died in 1925 on a trip to Amsterdam to see his great idols, Frans Hals and Rembrandt. Selected Bibliography Heinrich Müller: Die späte Graphik von Lovis Corinth, Hamburg 1...

This is the way in which Bartolomé the Apostle was martyred: according to tradition, the king of Armenia Astiages ordered him to worship his idols, which he refused, sending him to s...

He dedicated these works to his revered idol Zeeman and between the years 1851 and 1854 appeared the Eaux-fortes sur Paris, the series of works upon which the bulk of his fame now re...

In the public view he has long since been the personification of genius in modern art. Picasso is an idol, one of those rare creatures who act as crucibles in which the diverse and o...