VALZER CON BASHIR

Billy Boyd Cape - a wander through Hong Kong

Medium: Wood (sycamore fig) and glass.

Medium: Gold

Ancient Egyptian faience amulet made up of multiple “eyes of Horus”.  Artist unknown; 724-31 BCE (Late Period or Ptolemaic).  Now in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.  Photo credit: LACMA.

Lacquer painting on cardboard showing the constellation Sagittarius. 19th century. Iran.

~ Eye from a Bronze Statue. Culture: Greek Date: 5th - 2nd century B.C. Medium: Marble, obsidian, glass, and copper.

The wedjat-eye amulet represents a human eye with its brow, but the lines below the eye are often identified as the facial markings of a falcon. The wedjat-eye was supposedly the eye that Seth tore from Horus during a battle over who would lead the gods. Thoth healed the injured eye, returning it to Horus as the “sound one.” Wedjat-eye amulets were used from the Old Kingdom through the Roman Period and whether worn as a bracelet for everyday wear or tucked among mummy wrappings, this amulet was effective source of protection, strength and perfection.

Late Period, ca. 664-332 BC. Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Tetyana Yablonska Morning 1954, 110×169 cm • Oil, Canvas

Emperor Humayun with his brothers, (ca. 1540) by Dust Muhammad

A Southern Landscape with Palms in the Evening Light, Joseph Firmenich, 1878

Oil on canvas

Attic janiform red-figure aryballos in the shape of women’s heads, bearing the inscription Epilykos kalos ( “Epilykos is handsome/beautiful”).  Tentatively attributed to the painter Skythes; ca. 510-500 BCE.  Now in the Louvre.  Photo credit:  © Marie-Lan Nguyen / Wikimedia Commons.

Dallas Museum of Art

Yup'ik mask, early 20th century

Carved ivory amulet of the Tlingit people of the Pacific Northwest.  Artist unknown; ca. 1820-50.  Now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Jummah Mubarak 🌻 • Wazir Khan Mosque. Lahore, Pakistan. (Instagram: aabbiidd)