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Monsters

Kiki Karoglou
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“This makes you think about beauty and especially female beauty as being both enchanting and dangerous.”

Curator Kiki Karaglou on a Greek sphinx from about 530 BCE that served as a grave marker and was thought to be a guardian of the dead.

Contributors

Kiki Karoglou
Assistant Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art

Photography by Katherine Dahab

Art Mentioned

Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx, Marble, Parian, Greek, Attic
Marble capital and finial in the form of a sphinx
Greek, Attic
ca. 530 BCE

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