Mask: Antelope Figure (Ntomo) – Bamana peoples – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/312356
Traditional Art of the African Nations in the Museum of Primitive Art.
Traditional Art of the African Nations in the Museum of Primitive Art.
Like Orientalist subjects in nineteenth-century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence and “barbaric splendour.”
were being produced in their factories, they exalted the arts of preindustrialized nations
Câmpina, Romania, 1893–Bucharest, 1946, and Brăila, Romania, 1895–Bucharest, 1971
country in the 1960s (which also led to a cultural rapprochement with certain Western nations
The daguerreotype process, employing a polished silver-plated sheet of copper, was the dominant form of photography for the first twenty years of picture making in the United States.
Brady opened his first studio in 1844 and set himself the task of photographing the nation
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
sixteenth century, a new art emerged in Europe that reflected the individuality of the nations
This exhibition celebrates the foresight underlying the establishment of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing through some fifty works of art augmented by archival documents.
The scion of one of the nation’s most significant philanthropic families, Rockefeller
With growing assurance, architects in northern France, and soon all over Europe, competed in a race to conquer height.
before 1477 “Then arose new architects who after the manner of their barbarous nations
By the middle of the third millennium B.C., cuneiform primarily written on clay tablets was used for a vast array of economic, religious, political, literary, and scholarly documents.
much as international road signs can easily be interpreted by drivers from many nations
Traditional Art of the African Nations in the Museum of Primitive Art.
By looking closely at the Temple of Dendur, we can learn things about the way the temple was used in ancient Egypt and about moments in Egyptian history.
To save at least some of these monuments from disappearing, the United Nations started