Royal pendants and masquettes, openwork bracelets, and altar sculpture are some of the art forms that found broad dissemination and usage within this region.
At Benin, bells in the form of truncated, four-sided pyramids were arrayed on altars
This beautifully crafted figure is constructed from 16 separate pieces of wood (14 of which are extant) attached with dowels, mortise and tenons, adhesive, and plaster. Starting at the top, the sections are as follows: crown; head, torso and right leg; left leg; wedge between left leg and body; right arm; left arm; left forearm; right forefoot; left forefoot; wedge between fore and back left foot; front kilt section; back kilt section; beard (now missing); crook in left hand; scepter? (now missing) in right hand; and base
The ensemble was discovered in 1914 in the area surrounding the pyramid of Senwosret
Signature: Signed on dial: Achenbach & Schmidt à NeuwiedMarquetry signed on front of pendulum case: REUSCHInscription: Dials inscribed: PHILADELPHIA, MEXICO, PEKING, HISPAHAN, CAS-BON-SPEI, CAIRO, ROM, LISABON, LONDEN, ST
An example in his collection in the form of a jewel-embellished pyramid clock with
The Painting: Paul Cézanne often has been called a master of still-life painting. In The Met’s picture, we can see why. The white tablecloth and the apples rise and fall in variegated hillocks of a lush new territory, the world of Cézanne’s apples, where the sense of the solidity of the apples is closely allied to their spherical geometry
Similarly, the repetitive pyramids of wrinkled cloth and the extreme darks and lights
Reclaiming Ancient Egypt in the Neighborhood’s Transit System
within triangular reliefs that echo the funerary purpose of the ancient Egyptian pyramids
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wall decoration of tombs built for courtiers and officials around the two royal pyramids
In plan, Teotihuacan is a complex urban grid filled with single- and multi-floor apartment compounds. This grid, unique in Mesoamerica in its scale and organization, implies a high degree of social control.
The city incorporates three monumental temple platforms known as the Sun Pyramid,
On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 110 Senwosret I’s pyramid temple at
Geography: From Egypt, Memphite Region, Lisht South, Pyramid Temple of Senwosret
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The Performance Pyramid, organized in collaboration with MetLiveArts, presents a
