The art of the third millennium B.C. reflects not only the extraordinary developments in the cities of the Near Eastern heartland but also their interaction with contemporary civilizations to the east and west.
The growth of cities and powerful ruling families led to a demand for luxury items
Almost thirty-three centuries ago, a young man named Khonsu became a “servant in the Place of Truth”—a designation that identified members of the crew of artisans who carved and decorated the royal tombs of the New Kingdom.
In or near the chapels, shafts cut deep into the bedrock led to groupings of corridors
In addition to spending fortunes on sumptuous villas, lavish entertainment, fashionable clothes, and entourages of slaves and hangers-on, men and women in high Roman society furnished themselves with a range of expensive personal items.
Such tastes led ultimately to the adoption by the emperors of ceremonial silk robes
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
million, 15,000-square-foot project is designed by the architectural firm, NADAAA, led
The reign of Tutankhamun represents barely ten years (ca. 1336–1327 B.C.) in the three-thousand-year chronicle of ancient Egypt.
finds it contained (now in Cairo), as well as the highly publicized excavation led
Francis Edgar Williams, Papua, New Guinea, until 1940; Ralph C. Altman, Los Angeles, until 1958; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1958, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1958–1972; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1972–1978
Sculptuur uit Afrika en Oceanië: een keuze uit de collecties van leden van de Vereniging
In music, Romanticism, along with new opportunities for earning a livelihood as a musician or composer, produced two seemingly opposite venues as the primary places for musical activity—the large theater and the parlor.
The “bigger is better” mentality led to new musical forms such as the tone poem and
Ignoring or registering only gently harsh new realities such as the problems of immigration and urban poverty, they shone a positive light on their era.
and resolved to register the dismal aspects of urban existence, they themselves led
Neuss, Germany, 1881–Berlin, 1956
His disinterest in the trade may have led Flemming to attend art history and literature
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Their transformative nature led the Dada poet Tristan Tzara to describe rayographs
