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!
Really like the pleated dress. Was that true back then?
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.