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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 filling...

A c. 1879 oil on canvas, Boating on the Seine, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. An archetypal impressionist painting which captures the effects of sunlight on the landscape, people, and water. Renoir...

An 1860 oil on canvas, Portrait of Renoir's Mother, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. An unfinished work showing the artist's mother Marguerite when she was 53 years old. It is an unusually honest portrait...

An 1881 oil on canvas, The Bay of Naples with Vesuvius, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. The artist was greatly impressed with the landscape and art of Italy and brightened his pallette as a result of...

An 1869 oil on canvas, La Grenouillère, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), the French impressionist painter. Renoir and Claude Monet (1840-1926) spent time working together near the Seine at Croissy – a weekend destination for fashionable...

The ribs on the crown were used for affixing the crest. From the area of Olympia, Peloponnese. 600-550 BCE. Made from bronze. (Hellenic Museum, Melbourne, Victoria).

An 1866 oil on canvas, Jules Le Coeur in the Forest of Fontainebleau, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919), the French impressionist painter. Renoir and other friends who were student artists went on frequent painting trips to the Fontainebleau...

An 1889 oil on canvas, Young Girls Reading (aka The Two Sisters), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. The two girls are Yvonne and Christine, daughters of the painter and collector Henry Lerolle. The brushstrokes...

An 1881-5 oil on canvas, The Umbrellas, by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) the French impressionist painter. Probably painted in two distinct periods which would explain the hard lines and tones of most of the painting compared to the softer...