Associate Manager of Circulation and Technical Services Jessica Ranne highlights Watson Library’s substantial collection of books on street art.
Skip to main content Schildwächter, Jan P. and Britt Eggers, Street Art Hamburg
Art of the First Cities surveys the evolution of art and culture in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and their impact on the emerging cities of the ancient world—from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Central Asia and along the Gulf to the Indus Valley—during one of the most seminal and creative periods in history.
The exhibition is made possible by Dorothy and Lewis B. Cullman.
of late Sasanian glass vessel, found in excavations of Mesopotamian and Iranian sites
Marcel Lheureux, Paris, acquired 1920s]; P. Alsace; [John J.
20/2011–1/29/2012; Rietberg Museum, Zurich, 2/26–6/3/2012; catalogue no. 99, p.
.: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 167; p. 267, fig. 174.
Tile This image of a soaring phoenix with crested head and elaborate plumage, surrounded by swirling clouds, is a striking example of the adaptation of Chinese imagery by Persian artists
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930. p. 135, ill. fig. 69 (b/w).
Along with his studies at the Islamic city of Samarra, [Herzfeld’s] research at Persepolis is the best known work of his career.
Persepolis, located in the province of Fars, southwestern Iran, is among the most iconic sites
Mellon Fellow, 2021 References and Further Reading Benson, Elizabeth P.
Dado PanelThe room in Nishapur, Iran, from which this dado panel was excavated once had a lively scheme of painted decoration. The upper section of the wall was colored a deep red, beneath which was a short horizontal frieze of hexagons and diamonds, and a four-foot-high dado with alternating rectangular and square panels
Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin vol. 37 no. 4 (1942). p. 104, ill. fig. 28 (b
The Met’s Timeline of Art History pairs essays and works of art with chronologies and tells the story of art and global culture through the collection.
themes in art history, including artistic movements and periods, archaeological sites
