How did ancient Egyptians create dazzling paintings? Let’s explore the process, and then try making your own tools for painting!
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1915 (15.2.2a, b) | Right:
in Gallery 233 This finial in the shape of a dragon’s head would originally have
CupThis cylindrical cup has slightly curved walls and a flat base. The decoration consists of an inscription impressed vertically eight times around the walls. Since each end of the tong was rectangular, the inscription is framed above and below by a row of short lines that create a decorative effect, as if the surface were divided into panels spaced at regular intervals
Many large beakers and bowls, and fragments thereof, have survived with rectangular
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. pp. 160, 162, ill. fig. 95 (b/w).
Inscription: Notations in graphite on verso, right side, beginning couper/chars/abbatu…(illegible).Marking: Stamped in red ink, lower right: Delacroix estate mark (Lugt 838a)
the School of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Drawings and Paintings from the Karen B.
This exhibition will bring together more than 265 exquisite objects that were created through the patronage of the royal courts of the Hellenistic kingdoms, with an emphasis on the ancient city of Pergamon.
Tunisia, and the United States will also be represented, often through objects that have
This exhibition will present a new perspective on the vibrant artistic and cultural identities that flourished in the ancient Middle East as two great empires competed for regional control.
the archaeological sites featured, including Palmyra, Dura-Europos, and Hatra, have
Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1979. „One Hundred Ninth Annual Report of the Trustees for the Fiscal Year July 1, 1978 through June 30, 1979.“ Annual Report of the Trustees of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 109: p
that this pyxis was made in Macedonia, since other vessels with similar motifs have
Ca. 1911, known and possibly purchased by Ernst Herzfeld, near Tell al-Deylam (ancient Dilbat); by 1914, collection of Frida and/or Georg Hahn, Berlin, who most probably acquired it from Ernst Herzfeld; 1939, left on deposit at the British Museum by the Hahn family; acquired by the Museum in 1947, purchased from Charlotte Weidler, New York, on behalf of Georg Hahn
Other objects in the hoard seem to have been made earlier and kept for centuries.
Prince-Bishops of Schonbörn (later Seinsheim) ; Prince Bishop Adam Friedrich von Seinsheim ; Baron von Zandt ; [ Fischer-Böhler (until 1956; to Sheafer) ] ; Lesley and Emma Sheafer , New York (until 1974; bequeathed to MMA)
was under von Seinsheim that the gardens of Seehof were embellished, which must have
