An examination of the theme of idealized pairings in sub-Saharan African cultures, displaying approximately sixty works of sculpture dating from the twelfth to the twentieth century, drawn from some thirty distinct African traditions.
Couples in African Sculpture February 10–September 5, 2004 Idealized pairings have
In the late 1950s and early ’60s American photographers reinvented the documentary tradition once again. This time the subjective tradition that had emerged in the 1940s and early ’50s became a kaleidoscope through which photographers looked at the world.
Eggleston is one of the few photographers to have overcome the problem inherent in
archaeologists, and while details of the animal head differ from object to object—some have
What does the androgynous depiction of Hatshepsut—and its subsequent destruction—tell us about the role of gender in Ancient Egypt?
Because, you know, as an Egyptian, I should have known, but I think this also speaks
Poussin brought a new intellectual rigor to the classical impulse in art, as well as a unique, somewhat reticent poetry.
systems of belief—pagan, Jewish, Christian, Stoic, pantheistic—Poussin seems to have
The most musical tree in the world.
SHELL: Now you have to imagine this, this thing was twelve feet in diameter.
Some researchers have suggested that these figures may be depictions of lizards or
of a panoply, the set of offensive and defensive arms that a Greek warrior would have
Sotheby’s Olympia, London, October 13, 2004, lot 55; 16-22 June 2005, exhibited at the Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, London, by Chris Beetles who presumably purchased it at Sotheby’s; June 2005, purchased by Henrietta and Christopher McCall from Sandra Cronan who acquired it from Chris Beetles; acquired by the Museum in 2023, purchased from Christopher McCall, Henley-on-Thames, UK
ziggurat (Mesopotamian temple-tower) at Birs Nimrud, concluding that structure must have
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