Anselm Kiefer sculpture titled "Women of antiquity: Myrtis" or "Die Fraüen der Antique: Myrtis"
made in 2002, at the Art Gallery of New South Wales in Australia.

Photo taken in the museum in 2008.
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The Art Gallery of NSW says that one of Anselm Kiefer's recurring interests has been "the unfair treatment
many mythologies have handed out to women, particularly strong women whose intellectual questioning has
been seen as unruly and cause for demonisation: for example Pandora and Lilith. In ‘Women of antiquity’,
Kiefer uses attributes to identify individual characters from history: a lead book identifies Myrtis, a Greek
poet blamed for competing with Pindar; a glass ‘melancholia cube’ represents Hypatia, an Alexandrine
philosopher who was brutally murdered in sectarian unrest in 415 CE; and a rusting mass of razor wire
signifies Candidia, a Roman witch who wove vipers through her dishevelled hair." AGNSW

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