Lancelot Crane

Lancelot Crane drew early 20th-century scenes steeped in ancient symbolism. In Osiris carrying a flail and crook, he sketched the Egyptian god of the afterlife holding the tools that marked his authority. Look for the god’s stiff, hieroglyph-inspired lines and the steady weight of the objects, typical of a time when artists borrowed from old myths as visual shorthand. Tap to zoom in on the flail’s curved handle and the crook’s gentle arc.