Standing bodhisattva – China – Style of Northern Wei dynasty (386–534) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/61678
Credit Line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942 Object Number: 42.25.35a, b
Credit Line: Gift of Abby Aldrich Rockefeller, 1942 Object Number: 42.25.35a, b
Peters, 1926 Object Number: 26.292.43a, b Mrs. Samuel T.
Barbara Paley, 1978 Object Number: 1978.273a, b Inscription: (Right) H [Symbol]
Husband, Timothy B., and Madeline H. Caviness, ed.
Carter, 1944 Object Number: 44.39.30a, b Florence Bates Carter (until 1944; to
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
The griffins on these rather small dress ornaments have a feline body with heads
A new generation of painters brought a greater naturalism, and with it an elevated esteem, to the genre [of still-life painting].
The latter was considered by contemporaries as outrageous for a scene that was to have
political and creative centers of the Near East during the early first millennium B.C
Hasanlu’s geographic location influenced its development, and may have been a factor
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The authors have included a systematic description of the intricate construction
set [me] up as a monument This is the most complete grave monument of its type to have