EditorialGold plaque with Garuda, Leaf-shaped ornament with a representation of a flying bird (Garuda), above its head a one-eyed kala. A hook on the back., anonymous, Indonesia, 1300 - 1400, gold (metal), h 4.8 cm ? w 3 cm ? d 1.3 cm ? w 5.60 gr.
EditorialTerracotta pelike (wine jar), Late Classical, ca. 375?350 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 11 in. (28 cm), Vases, Obverse, battle between Arimaspeans and griffins, Reverse, three youths conversing. The Greek historian Herodotus described ...
EditorialPolyphemus and Galatea, The one-eyed giant Polyphemus is in love with the sea nymph Galatea and plays for her on his pan flute. Galatea rides over the waves in her dolphin-drawn heart shell. Tritons and nereids play around her in the water. A convex cl...
EditorialLava landscape on the slopes of Mount Aetna,Sicily. Smokeholes in the lava may have inspired the myth of the Cyclops Polyphem,the one-eyed giant of the Odyssee and of Ovid's metamorphoses.
EditorialThe One-Eyed Woman, plate fifteen from The Beggars. Jacques Callot; French, 1592-1635. Date: 1617-1627. Dimensions: 138 ? 87 mm (plate); 142 ? 92 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialThe One-Eyed Woman, plate fifteen from The Beggars. Jacques Callot; French, 1592-1635. Date: 1617-1627. Dimensions: 138 ? 87 mm (plate); 142 ? 92 mm (sheet). Etching on paper. Origin: France.
EditorialCharles McGee, one-eyed Jamaican beggar aged 73 who stands at the Obelisk, Ludgate Hill. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, 1817.
EditorialMiniature of Alexander's battle with one-eyed giants (cyclops). Historia de proelis in a French translation (Le Livre et le vraye hystoire du bon roy Alixandre). France, Central (Paris); c.1420. Source: Royal 20 B. XX, f.79v. Language: French.
EditorialJack meets a one-eyed giant. Jack and the Beanstalk. London : Frederick Warne & Co., [1877] Camden Press. Children's books. Source: 12805.l.45.(13) page 3.
EditorialOne eyed creatures looking at a female figure. Un autre monde. Transformations, visions, incarnations ... et autres choses. Paris, 1844. Science-fiction. Black and white engraving / illustration. Source: 1458.k.10 page 102. Language: French.
EditorialNetsuke of Noh Mask; One-Eyed Hyottoko, 19th century, Japan, Wood, H. 1 3/4 in. (4.4 cm); W. 1 1/2 in. (3.8 cm); D. 5/8 in. (1.6 cm), Netsuke.
EditorialTerracotta pelike (wine jar), Late Classical, ca. 375?350 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 11 in. (28 cm), Vases, Obverse, battle between Arimaspeans and griffins, Reverse, three youths conversing. The Greek historian Herodotus described ...
EditorialTerracotta plaque, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, 27 B.C.?A.D. 68, Roman, Terracotta, Overall: 18 1/4 x 14 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (46.4 x 36.8 x 6.4 cm), Terracottas, Relief with a griffin and an arimasp. Arimasps were mythical one-eyed men who dwelt with gold-g...
EditorialCharles McGee, one-eyed Jamaican beggar aged 73 who stands at the Obelisk, Ludgate Hill. Copperplate etching drawn and engraved by John Thomas Smith from his Vagabondiana, Anecdotes of Mendicant Wanderers through the Streets of London, 1817.
EditorialGalatea, 1656. The nereid Galatea loves the shepherd Acis, son of Pan. Polyphem, one-eyed cyclops, desires her and when she refuses his advances, throws a rock at the couple, killing Acis. Galatea changes Acis into a rivulet.
EditorialLava landscape on the slopes of Mount Aetna,Sicily. Smokeholes in the lava may have inspired the myth of the Cyclops Polyphem,the one-eyed giant of the Odyssee and of Ovid's metamorphoses.
EditorialSmokehole or " fumarole" in the mud of the crater of Solfatara, one of the extinvt volcanoes of the Phlegrean Fields near Pozzuoli, Italy. Such a sight may have inspired the myth of the Cyclops Poliphem, the one-eyed giant of the Odyssee.