Theo Eshetu – The Return of the Axum Obelisk – British-Ethiopian – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/906178
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This installation by Dan Graham (born 1942, Urbana, Illinois) is the second in a new series of site-specific commissions for the Museum’s Roof Garden. Comprising curves of steel and two-way mirrored glass set between ivy hedgerows, Graham’s structure is part garden maze, part modernist skyscraper facade.
Graham’s pavilions similarly invite romance or play, but their forms and materials have
Line: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982 Object Number: 1982.60.197a, b
The discovery of vast quantities of West African ivory, called “white gold” in Europe, transformed the nature of African-Portuguese trading in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.
The design of the saltcellars ( 1972.63a,b); ( 1991.435a,b), with a round vessel
Dimensions: Overall (a: cope): 58 × 122 1/2 in. (147.3 × 311.1 cm) Overall (b:
Length of Fabric>One of the more popular layouts with Ottoman textile artists, and one that eventually found its way into other media such as ceramic tile decoration, the pattern on this fabric fragment features parallel undulating vines adorned with leaves and flowers
Several artistic decisions have resulted in the aesthetic success of this loom-width
Bartolomeo Suardi was known as Bramantino after his contemporary in Milan, the great architect Bramante (1443/44–1514); his abiding interest in perspective and architecture, reflected in the background of this rare, private devotional painting, comes from that source
abstract quality of the space and buildings, as well as the gesturing figures, have
The Artist: The Sienese master Simone Martini was one of the greatest and most influential painters of his time. His work combines an astonishing mastery of naturalistically observed details with an exquisite technique
He may have spent some time with Duccio (see 2004.442), but in his monumental mural
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volumes in the Napoleonic era, and their brilliant colors and shining gold surfaces have
image, center): a) Letters from HomeInscribed (in pencil, along bottom of image):b)
image, center): a) Letters from Home Inscribed (in pencil, along bottom of image): b)