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been able to gather enough information so as to understand the complexities surrounding a collection of semi-preserved writing imp...
1. "claims concerning the restitution of cultural properties to their ocuntries of origin" 2. "restriction of imports and...
2003). Because these boxes were so magnificent and rare, they were often popular booty or war prizes claimed by Assyrian kings (C...
holdings of a museum; the works that the museum owns and takes care of (The permanent collection, 2008). The Metropolitan owns mor...
Nespeqashuty died prior to its completion. At this time, some of the reliefs were finished, but many consisted of just an outline ...
representation did not lack a more serious undercurrent, it was the manner in which it was approached that, according to Bergson, ...
works signed by a famous artist. Rather, the visitor is exposed to the artifacts that suggest what life was and is like to African...
Chicago features a fascinating exhibit, which is titled "Evolving Planet." The focus of the exhibit is on the progression of evolu...
heavily muscled "action hero"-type spokesman who rampages through a jungle, punching snakes, firing a laser rifle, and ensnaring h...
animals as these jars were possessed of lids which were in the form of "human, baboon, falcon, and jackal -- representing the four...
made or coins minted (Ancient near eastern art). Because the figures on the plates are not labeled, they cannot be identified wit...
It also suggests that people lived with the same lingering questions at the time as now. Some things never change, while other thi...
number of other gods who were chosen by each respective community depending upon their preference. "The mountains, which served ...
works than the colossal The Eye is the First Circle (about 93" x 191" or about eight by sixteen feet), for example. Here her art...
examine carefully Descartes famous "cogito ergo sum" statement, which was the original Latin for "I think, therefore I exist" - or...
piece. Rhyton were generally very ornate and are thought by most experts to have been mostly for ritual ceremonies, or perhaps u...
This research contrasts and compares two art figures from ancient civilizations, which are part of the collection at the Metropoli...
This gravestone was produced in marble and dates from the between 450 and 440 BC. While the little girls face is both composed and...
males. In both "Enuma Elish" and in Hesiods mythology, the Earth goddess is described in terms of motherhood. Tiamet first rages a...
space" spread over several buildings (About MoMA - Museum history, 2007). One of these, the "Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Educatio...
the author also, properly, offers the website of the Metropolitan Museum of Art so that the visitor to this site can go directly t...
and special displays. The MMAH permanent collection includes a wide variety of works representing many cultures and eras. Among th...
second fire, it was reconstructed yet again by Justinian I (Justinian the Great) during the sixth century. Due in large part to J...
this series, while painted in the late nineteenth century, looks very much as if it were from the Byzantine era. The site gives th...
Inside the DNA pages, the screens are interactive. You can probe the DNA sequence to find matches, and while youre doing that you ...
which is that the exhibits are intended to facilitate the "growth" and "learning" of the visitors (Virtual tour, 2004). The first...
The influences are cited as being form the musical, with Libeskind seeing that the visual and audible as being inseparable, hence...
serve to offer a very strong visual foundation for the rounded linear shapes of the building. There are also powerful pieces of ar...
In many ways we see, in the painting in the Norton Simon Museum, how there are timeless subjects in the world of painting. For exa...
("Art on Trial," 2006). The Court would also issue the injunction as it believed that, after the case would be fully litigated, it...