New York, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
1960, excavated under the direction of Robert H. Dyson Jr. on behalf of the Hasanlu Project sponsored by the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania, the Archaeological Service of Iran, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art; acquired by the Museum in 1961, as a result of its financial contribution to the excavations
Philadelphia: The University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, pl. 31.
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
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, p
This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting members of a close-knit circle of acquaintances with whom he shared literary interests, and this sitter—who so conspicuously holds open a book—may be from among that group
Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art.
This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting members of a close-knit circle of acquaintances with whom he shared literary interests, and this sitter—who so conspicuously holds open a book—may be from among that group
Exh. cat., Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Elephant Trampling a HorseInspired by Mughal manuscript illustrations of animals in combat, this lively scene depicts a mahout desperately attempting to control his enraged elephant, which is intent on trampling a subdued and frightened horse
Museum of Art and Archeology, University of Oxford (LI 118.49); Free Library of Philadelphia
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He is co-curating an exhibition on Henri Rousseau with the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
