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An 1867 oil on canvas, Frédéric Bazille, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Renoir and Bazille, a fellow impressionist, shared a studio in Paris for several years. Renoir was greatly affected by Bazille's...

An 1873 oil on canvas, Monet Painting in his Garden at Argenteuil, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Monet and Renoir were close friends and worked together in several spells throughout their careers...

This vessel is decorated with a female figure advancing towards a wool basket, holding a flat basket with wreaths and a lekythos. White lekythoi, perfume vases, were made exclusively in Athens and destined solely for funerary use...

Permanently exhibited at the Benaki Museum as a Mycenaean vase of the Late Helladic II-IIIAI period (15th-early 14th century BCE). Its authenticity is still a matter of discussion among scholars. The decoration of this object of prestige...

This figure is wearing a peplos (long garment) and a polos (high cylindrical crown). Figurines of this class, which are reminiscent of the Archaic korai in monumental sculpture, were grave goods or votive offerings in sanctuaries. They possibly...

Roman copy of the head of an Athenian cult statue probably representing a peplos-clad goddess, of the years around c. 430 BCE. The original was perhaps a work by the famous sculptor Agorakritos, a favourite pupil of Pheidias. Parian...

Heracles is depicted in an aggressive pose, holding the club in his right hand and the bow in his left. From the sanctuary of Apollo Ptoios on the Ptoon Mountain, Boeotia. Argeian workshop. 480-460 BCE. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne...

This vase is a type of drinking vessel. It depicts a pursuit scene between two nude males flanked by himation-clad male figures. From Attica or Boeotia. Attic workshop. Attributed to the Athenian Painter conventionally known as the...

Theseus and the half-human, half-bovine Minotaur are flanked by three maidens and four youths, probably a connotation to the sacrificial victims sent by the people of Athens to King Minos of Crete. The iconographic subjects on the other side...

This black-figure pyxis is decorated with ibexes and felines. This type of vessel was used as a container for cosmetics or jewellery. The decorative subjects, the elongation of the body of the animals and the schematisation of the...