Standing bodhisattva – China – Style of Northern Wei dynasty (386–534) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/61678
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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
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When it came to depicting Jesus on the Cross, many artists of the earlier Middle Ages portrayed Jesus as alive and alert, his body entirely resistant to the trauma of crucifixion. In this example, Jesus almost bears himself easily, with his torso erect, knees slightly bent, and head held high
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Mihrab (Prayer Niche)This prayer niche, or mihrab, was originally an architectural element in a theological school (madrasa) in the city of Isfahan. An inscription in the courtyard of this former school, now known as Madrasa Imami, is dated to the year A
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Shrine of Shaikh Safi Al-Din, Ardabil, Iran ; [ Vincent Robinson & Co., London, through Ziegler and Co., Sultanabad; in 1892;sold to Yerkes]; Charles Tyson Yerkes (American), New York, after 1892–d. 1905; his estate 1905–10, sold to MMA)
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1967, excavated under the direction of David Stronach and John Hansman, representing the British Institute of Persian Studies and the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago; acquired by the Museum in 1969, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
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This crucifix was made to be carried in processions and is painted on both sides. Before entering the Kress collection (Shapley 1966) the two sides were separated, but they were re-united in the Museum in 1988
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Pair of DoorsAccording to Museum files, the findspot for these doors was the town of Takrit in north-central Iraq. Researchers, however, have deduced that local residents in modern times had brought them there for reuse from the ruins of Samarra, a site located on the east bank of the Tigris, about seventy-eight miles (125 km) north of Baghdad
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From the cloister of the royal abbey of Saint-Denis, France.; marquis de Migieu, Savigny-les-Beaune (about 1771?); vicomte de Vaulchier ; [ Dealer, Versailles (?)]; [ Alphonse Kann (French), Paris (sold 1920)]
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