Gallery
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Archaic Greek herm, presumably of Hermes, unusual in that the penis has survived.
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Herm on an Attic red-figure lekythos, 475–450 BC.
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A hermaic sculpture of an old man, probably a philosopher. Ai Khanoum, Afghanistan, 2nd century BCE.
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Busts from a Roman double herm of Seneca and Socrates
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Small terracotta herm of Hermes
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Male and female Baroque herms at the Rubenshuis.
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Art Nouveau or Neo-Baroque herms in Poland
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Herms with Mannerist antecedents, in A Handbook of Ornament (1898)
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“It doesn’t matter that your painting is small. Kopecks are also small, but when a lot are put together they make a ruble. Each painting displayed in a gallery and each good book that makes it into a library, no matter how small they may be, serves a great cause: accretion of the national wealth.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)