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Gustav Klimt

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Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) knew to show the spirit of the splendor lived Austria in 1900 in a single box, but resigned to be a mere chronicler of what the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig called "the golden age of the middle-class security". He didn't know anything about fame and gave women that can be found in his paintings, magic and irresistible, ideals of femme fatale, but with soul of mythical beings connected with pleasure and excess. The men, could not enter the scene before authentic them DueƱas in a master plan. Austro-Hungarian society lived in absolute harmony, a splendor numbed with artistic manifestations as correct as beautiful, always consistent with Historicism. Forced female containment was one reflection more of the sexual repression of the Viennese, an ideal breeding ground for Sigmund Freud who developed in those years s sexual theories on the origin of 'The kiss' neuroses (1908), Summit of the 'Golden phase' of Klimt's work

Egyptian Sistrum, (sechem). 39cm

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Egyptian Sistrum, (sechem). 39cm Reproduction of Egyptian Sistrum (Sechen) from photographs, made reconstituted marble (marble with resin powder). The represented goddess is the goddess Hathor.   The Sistrum measures: 33,5 x 8.5 x 4.5 cm. Base height: 39cm. The Sistrum be removed from the base to be used. This reproduction is basasa in the Sistrum (sechem) original of the National Museum of Malawi, rated the No. 89, whose upper part was restored. It is one of the pieces missing in the destruction of this museum by radical Islamists, in August of 2013. Origin: Necropolis of Tuna the Gabal. Graeco-Roman period Original in blue faience of 33.5 x 8,5 cm The inscription on the handle reads: "Beautiful God Lord of the two lands eternal life". The Sistrum was a ceremonial musical instrument used by the priestesses. There were two types, called sechem and the sesheshet. Both associated with the goddess Hathor, although also used in the worship of other deities such as