Throughout the ages, public sculptures have served as didactic tools, offering moral, patriotic, and cultural instruction. Symbols of pride, they have proclaimed cities as tastemakers in civic and aesthetic matters.
Multnomah Tribe Hermon Atkins MacNeil Roman Bronze Works 1903; cast ca.1907 The Indian
Florence and Rome—with their internationally cosmopolitan environments—were favored by expatriate American sculptors.
Rogers 1853–54; carved 1859 Daphne Harriet Goodhue Hosmer 1853, carved 1854 Indian
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Domenico Tiepolo ca. 1755 Head of a Man Antoine Watteau ca. 1718 Costume of an Indian
The New York Dutch Room is a main chamber, or groote kaner in Dutch, and comes from a house built in 1751 for Daniel Pieter Winne, whose ancestors moved to Rensselaerswyck from Flanders via Curacao in 1643.
planks, and all sorts of timber, flour, peas, and furs, which they get from the Indians
Inscription: 1) (stele obverse bottom, main dedicatory inscription) translit.: Weida Weiyongxi êrh nian sui zai jiayin xing jien zhu Wuding yüan nian sui cu gui hai ba yüe gong jiu. trans.: „At the time of Great Wei, Yongxi, the 2nd year, the cyclical year Jiayin, began the building; reaching Wuding, the 1st year, the cyclical year Guihai, the 8th month, the work was ended.“.2) a. (stele obverse, second register, right, on cartouches) translit.: Chanshi Huixün gong yang fo shi. trans.: The priest Huixün, at the time of reverently making offerings to Buddha.2) b. (same as above, left) translit.: Yishi Huigong gong yang fo shi. trans.: The district priest, Huigong, at the time of reverently making offereings to Buddha.
other a skull-are standard images in Chinese Buddhist sculpture and represent two Indian
Jazz Henri Matisse (French, Le Cateau-Cambrésis 1869–1954 Nice) 1947 The Indian
History of the Inca Empire: An Account of the Indians‚ Customs and Their Origin,
Business papers, personal and family documents, and gallery accession cards for the art dealers Joseph, Imre, and Ernest Brummer, who were influential sellers to museums and private collections.
Greek glass, gold, jewelry, and terra-cotta Iron Mexican, Peruvian, African, and Indian
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century.
Study for "Portrait of an Indian" Anne Louis Girodet-Trioson ca. 1807 Odalisque
Like Orientalist subjects in nineteenth-century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence and “barbaric splendour.”
Because of their purity of design, Islamic ceramics, Indian textiles, and Japanese
