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Phyllis

Also known as: Phyllis; primary name: Phyllis
Details: individual; Female
Biography: Lover of Alexander the Great (q.v.), who according to a thirteenth-century legend distracted him from his studies. When Alexander's tutor Aristotle (q.v.) attempted to restrict her influence she seduced him and convinced him to get on all fours so that she could ride him like a horse.

18 related objects

casket

Museum number: 1856,0623.166 |
Cultures/periods: x41036 Late Medieval |
Production date: 1325-1350 |
Production place: Made in:Paris (France)

drawing

Museum number: 1929,0416.1 |
Producer name: BIOG18973 Drawn by:Jan de Beer |
Production date: 1515-1520

print; title-page

Museum number: 1871,1209.491 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hans Holbein the YoungerPrinted by:Heinrich Petri |
Production date: 1522 |
Production place: Printed in:Basel

print; title-page

Museum number: 1895,0122.1134 |
Producer name: Print made by:Urs GrafPrinted by:Petrus Vidovaeus |
Production date: 1519 1521 |
Production place: Printed in:Paris (France)

print

Museum number: 1874,0711.1890 |
Producer name: Print made by:Virgil SolisAfter:Georg Pencz |
Production date: 1530-1562

print

Museum number: 1862,0712.639 |
Producer name: BIOG21026 Print made by:Hans Brosamer |
Production date: 1520-1551

print

Title: Weiberlisten |
Museum number: 1895,0122.372 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hans Burgkmair the ElderBlock cut by:Jost de Negker |
Production date: 1519

print

Title: Weiberlisten |
Museum number: E,7.42 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hans Burgkmair the ElderBlock cut by:Jost de Negker |
Production date: 1519 1522-1536

print

Museum number: 1853,0709.138 |
Producer name: BIOG41533 Print made by:Georg Pencz |
Production date: 1545-1546

print

Museum number: 1917,0714.4 |
Producer name: Print made by:Wenzel von OlmützAfter:Monogrammist BR & anchor |
Production date: 1485-1500

print

Title: Socrates & Xantippe |
Museum number: 1866,1114.543 |
Producer name: Published by:John Smith, the mezzotinterAfter:Henri Gascar |
Production date: 1681-1688

print

Museum number: 1895,0915.232 |
Producer name: BIOG142436 Print made by:Master MZ |
Production date: 1500-1503

print

Title: Socrates & Xantippe |
Museum number: 1877,1013.1027 |
Producer name: Print made by:AnonymousAfter:Henri Gascar |
Production date: 1681-1688

print

Museum number: 1873,0809.859 |
Producer name: Print made by:Virgil SolisAfter:Georg Pencz |
Production date: 1530-1562

print; frontispiece

Museum number: 1863,0613.1691 |
Producer name: Print made by:Daniel ChodowieckiPublished by:Carl Matzdorff |
Production date: 1792 |
Production place: Published in:Berlin (city)

print; title-page

Museum number: 1874,0711.1813 |
Producer name: Print made by:Hans Holbein the YoungerPrinted by:Heinrich Petri |
Production date: 1522 |
Production place: Printed in:Basel

print

Museum number: 1872,1012.903 |
Producer name: BIOG18233 Print made by:Hans Baldung |
Production date: 1515

salt-cellar

Museum number: 1888,0705.1 |
Producer name: BIOG77324 Attributed to:Pierre Reymond |
Production date: 1542 |
Production place: Made in:Limoges