The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
De Puma, Richard, and Christopher Lightfoot 2013 336 pages Honorable Mention, Los
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Guggenheim Museum; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The San Francisco
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Hide caption Painters of Reality: The Legacy of
Until 1924, collection of Alexandre Merle de Massonneau, who acquired material from the Caucasus area of south Russia and Crimea in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (Leskov 2008, p. 1); acquired by the Museum in 1924, purchased from the Massonneau collection in Paris by John Marshall, The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s agent in Europe
.-100 B.C.� The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum
Two Vessels Inscribed with a Poem on Wine (MMA 64.133.2 and British Museum ME OA 1938.11-12.1)These sophisticated vessels, inscribed with verses inviting one to drink, echo the close connection between wine drinking and literature in upper-class social practice of the medieval Islamic period
Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Said to be from Nola (Beazley 1963, p. 197, no. 3). Until 1919, private collection, UK; May 22-23, 1919, purchased by William Randolph Hearst through Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, London; 1919-1951, collection of William Randolph Hearst, New York and San Simeon; 1951-1956, with the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, New York; acquired in 1956, purchased from the W
Hearst the Collector. p. 24, Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The Artist: Giotto is the key figure of Western painting. His emphasis on solidly described figures and his exploration of a rational pictorial space set the course of European art for the next five hundred years
Los Angeles. J. Paul Getty Museum.
For me the photograph speaks to optical illusion, to ambiguity, to the blurring of immediate impressions and assumptions.
Phillips’s other honors include the Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award, the Los Angeles
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Sept. 10-Dec. 1, 2002.
While some 13,000 Etruscan texts exist, most of these are very short. Consequently, much of what we know about the Etruscans comes not from historical evidence, but from their art and the archaeological record.
Los Angeles: Getty Museum, 2000. Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth, eds.
