Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Lisht, 1913-1914. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1914.Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
One or more deities, who have not been preserved, would have stood in front of and
Depicting warriors, musicians, hunters, and dancers, the figures were mold-made and have
Varvara Nikolaevna was born on July 7, 1762. The daughter of Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1727–1787) and Princess Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Golovina (1728–1769), she married Prince Sergei Sergeyevich Gagarin (1745–1798)
Nikolaevna Golitsyna and her husband Prince Sergei Sergeyevich Gagarin seem to have
Threads of identity.
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The discovery of Ife’s now famous naturalistic bronzes, terracottas, and stone sculptures challenged European assumptions about the nature of African art and initiated significant debates concerning the antiquity of its past.
The many religious arts of the Yoruba have long served to mediate relations between
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are the most important luxury decks of hand-painted European playing cards that have
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The site of Ubirr in Arnhem Land, northern Australia, contains one of the most impressive assemblages of Aboriginal rock painting, ranging from the earliest periods to works created within living memory.
A favored camping place during the annual wet season, the rock faces at Ubirr have
The inaugural exhibition of the newly renovated Costume Institute examines the career of the legendary twentieth-century Anglo-American couturier Charles James (1906–1978).
—David Byrne "The curators…have created an intelligent and playful account of
A second diagonal cross divides the plane of the lower square, which would have remained
