“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
Assistant Curator, Department of Greek and Roman Art
Photography by Katherine Dahab
Art Mentioned
Greek, Attic
ca. 530 BCE
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