Introduce your students to works of art made in the lands where many features of civilization originated.
East Art of the Ancient Near East: A Resource for Educators Kim Benzel, Sarah B.
to choose an item Title: The Return of the Axum Obelisk Artist: Theo Eshetu (b.
This installation by Dan Graham (born 1942, Urbana, Illinois) is the second in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Roof Garden. Comprising curves of steel and two-way mirrored glass set between ivy hedgerows, Graham’s structure is part garden maze, part modernist skyscraper facade.
Additional support is provided by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky.
Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982 Object Number: 1982.60.197a, b
The discovery of vast quantities of West African ivory, called “white gold” in Europe, transformed the nature of African-Portuguese trading in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The design of the saltcellars ( 1972.63a,b); ( 1991.435a,b), with a round vessel
Dimensions: Overall (a: cope): 58 × 122 1/2 in. (147.3 × 311.1 cm) Overall (b:
The first Asian designer to become a member of the Paris haute couture syndicate, Hanae Mori occupied a singular position at the forefront of the global fashion industry over the course of her storied five-decade career.
in brilliant colors, often interweaving gold and silver threads ( 2004.467.1a, b)
Moroni’s portrait of the Bergamasque professor Bartolomeo Bonghi (died 1584) is one of his finest works from the 1550s. Bonghi is shown seated on a Savonarolan-style chair with a book in his left hand, gazing toward the viewer, and with a cityscape through the window beyond
B[ryson]. B[urroughs]. "Venetian Paintings."
Medium: Sandstone Dimensions: A: H. 27 3/8 in. (69.5 cm); W. 27 in. (68.6 cm) B:
Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Helen Cookman, 1964 Object Number: 2009.300.7336a, b
