Throwback Thursdays Art

Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution images of its collection.  I won’t name the piece or the artist, but instead invite you to study the image and write a comment about what you see or what it makes you think of.  All images will have a sun (or sunlight) in them somewhere.  

So study the picture, and leave your reflections below!

Ehyptian Sun

2 thoughts on “Throwback Thursdays Art”

  1. This looks like it has two suns to me, both kind of created by the circled tail of a cobra. Why two suns? The figure on the left looks like it has the face and especially beak of a bird, and the rest of the body looks like a mummified corpse. The figure on the right is maybe offering the corpse an elixir on the mortar-and-pestle in his right hand. the table in the middle seems full of offerings, including a dead bird and a bunch of grapes hanging down below. I wish I could read the black and white writing on the wall above the table. Funny, but the picture makes me think of a parent trying to coach a child to eat its dinner. “You eat like a bird!” the parent says, glancing down at the dead bird on the table and implying the child will end up like that.

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