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Nightcap in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2012

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:54:05 -0700

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Nightcap

Date: 1600–1620

Culture: English

Medium: Linen worked with silk and metal threads, spangles; chain, stem, darning, detached buttonhole, and plaited braid stitches

Dimensions: H. 8 x W. 7 3/4 inches (20.3 x 19.7 cm)

Classification: Textiles-Embroidered

Credit Line: Gift of Irwin Untermyer, 1964

Accession Number: 64.101.1241

Description:

Roses, thistles and eglantines, butterflies, birds and caterpillars decorate this skillfully embroidered gentleman’s nightcap. Despite its name, this type of cap would also have functioned as an informal, indoor article of clothing during the daylight hours.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1200...

Marble Statue of Aphrodite Anadyomene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:03:12 -0700

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Marble statuette of Aphrodite Anadyomene (rising)

Period: Hellenistic or Early Imperial

Date: 3rd–2nd century B.C., or 1st century A.D.

Culture: Roman or Greek

Medium: Marble

Dimensions: H. 50.32 cm.

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1927

Accession Number: 27.122.17

Description:

This Aphrodite’s arms were originally in a pose very similar to that of the statue of the goddess displayed nearby. Here, the stance is reversed; most of the figure’s weight is on the right leg instead of the left. Such statuettes were popular decorations in villa gardens.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

Marble Statue of Aphrodite Anadyomene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sun, 20 May 2012 15:03:13 -0700

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Detail of a Terracotta Kylix Attributed to the Brygos Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:15:41 -0700

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Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Attributed to the Brygos Painter

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 480–470 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 3 1/4 in. (8.2 cm) diameter 8 7/16 in. (21.4 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921

Accession Number: 21.88.150

Description:

Interior, komast (reveler)

A young komast with a himation (cloak), a wreath, and a fillet (band) tied around his brow walks with a skyphos-like cup towards a large column-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water). His head is thrown back, and his mouth is open as if he is singing.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

Detail of a Terracotta Kylix Attributed to the Brygos Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:15:30 -0700

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Marble Head of a Woman from a Grave Marker in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2012

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:20:47 -0800

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Marble head of a woman from a grave marker

Period: Late Classical

Date: ca. 325 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Marble, Pentelic

Dimensions: H. 11 1/4 in. (28.6 cm)

Classification: Stone Sculpture

Credit Line: Fletcher Fund, 1924

Accession Number: 24.97.97b

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

Marble Head of a Veiled Goddess in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2012

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 17:13:22 -0800

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Terracotta Chous in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2012

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:51:15 -0800

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Terracotta oinochoe: chous (jug)

Period: Classical

Date: ca. 400 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 10.21 cm.

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921

Accession Number: 21.88.80

Description:

Boy driving goat-drawn chariot preceded by boy with chous

The representation, with the lively animals and polychromy, is particularly engaging.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

Standard Bearer in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2012

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:47:57 -0800

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Standard Bearer (?)

Date: 200 BCE–300 CE

Geography: Mexico, Mesoamerica, Colima

Culture: Colima

Medium: Ceramic

Dimensions: H.15 3/8 x W. 8 3/8 in. (39.1 x 21.3 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Sculpture

Credit Line: Gift of Joanne P. Pearson, in memory of Andrall E. Pearson, 2007

Accession Number: 2007.345.7

Provenance:

Miles J. Lourie, New York, from the 1960s; private collection, California; [Ancient Art of the New World, New York]; Andrall E. and Joanne P. Pearson, North Palm Beach, FL, until 2006; Joanne P. Pearson, North Palm Beach, FL, until 2007

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/5001...

Mother and Child Figure in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2012

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 14:46:56 -0800

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Mother and Child Figure

Date: 12th–9th century BCE

Geography: Mexico, Mesoamerica

Culture: Tlatilco

Medium: Ceramic

Dimensions: H. 2 1/2 x W. 2 1/4 in. (6.4 x 5.7 cm)

Classification: Ceramics-Sculpture

Credit Line: Purchase, Arthur M. Bullowa Bequest, 1998

Accession Number: 1998.242

Provenance:

Proctor Stafford Collection, Los Angeles, acquired by early 1960s; [Ancient Art of the New World, Inc., New York, until 1998]

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/5001...

Terracotta Olpe Attributed to the Amasis Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:47:14 -0700

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Terracotta olpe (jug)

Attributed to the Amasis Painter

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 520 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 12 15/16 in. (32.8 cm) diameter 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Purchase, Frederick P. Huntley Bequest, 1959

Accession Number: 59.11.17

Description:

Courting scene

A bearded man in an elaborate fringed cloak approaches a woman who holds a myrtle branch and offers him a rose. She is dressed like a bride with her cloak pulled over her head and a wreath of myrtle in her hair.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

Detail of a Terracotta Olpe Attributed to the Amasis Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 23:47:43 -0700

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Mayan Cylindrical Vessel with a Throne Scene in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, January 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 22:21:10 -0700

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Vessel, Throne Scene

Date: late 7th–8th century

Geography: Guatemala, Mesoamerica

Culture: Maya

Medium: Ceramic

Dimensions: H. 8 1/2 in.

Classification: Ceramics-Containers

Credit Line: Gift of Charles and Valerie Diker, 1999

Accession Number: 1999.484.2

Description:

Maya polychrome ceramic vessels are not only objects of great beauty, but with the painted renditions of Maya myth and courtly life they also serve as historic documents. Although the significance of the motifs and narratives is often complex, and at times elusive, the painted images include representations of the ancient peoples, their costumes, architecture, and activities. A palace court scene is depicted on the exterior of this cylindrical vessel. An elegant young lord, seated on a throne, wears a grand feathered headdress and a large collar of beads and pendants. Two seated male figures of lesser rank face him, and between them is a vessel shaped much like the one on which they are depicted. It is filled with a foaming liquid probably made of honey or cacao. The depiction of the luxurious life of a wealthy and powerful young man is overlaid with references to death. The vessel is undoubtedly a mortuary offering.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/5001...

Gloves in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2012

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 07:38:46 -0700

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Enamel and Crystal Morse in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, February 2012

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:48:27 -0700

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Sideboard in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, September 2010

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Fri, 01 Jun 2012 05:45:44 -0700

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Islamic Bowl with Four Camels in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, May 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Thu, 31 May 2012 21:30:45 -0700

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Bowl with the Image of Four Camels

Object Name: Bowl

Date: 10th century

Geography: Iraq

Medium: Earthenware; luster-painted on an opaque white glaze

Dimensions: H. 2 1/2 in. (6.4 cm) Diam. 9 in. (22.9 cm)

Classification: Ceramics

Credit Line: Purchase, Joseph Pulitzer Bequest, 1964

Accession Number: 64.259

Description:

Luster-painted bowls made in Abbasid Iraq often featured representations of birds, mythical beasts, human beings, and vegetal patterns. This example’s playful depiction of camels is a rare departure from the typical iconographic repertory. The medallion layout and the repeating design of the camels with palanquins on their backs lend a sense of dynamism to the piece, almost as if the artist wanted to show the beasts proceeding in a caravan.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1400...

Terracotta Kylix Attributed to the Brygos Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 17:15:15 -0700

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Detail of a Terracotta Kylix Attributed to the Antiphon Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:23:46 -0700

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Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Attributed to the Antiphon Painter

Period: Archaic

Date: ca. 490 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. 3 3/4 in. (9.5 cm) diameter 9 9/16 in. (24.3 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Purchase, 1896

Accession Number: 96.9.36

Description:

Interior, youth wearing phorbeia (lip band) and holding double flute (aulos); inscribed the boy is fair
Exterior, youths

The scenes here depict young Athenian men engaged in pursuits characteristic of their age and status. Music was an integral part of education, with the flute and the lyre as the primary instruments. The youth on the interior must just have stopped playing because he still wears the phorbeia. His companions on the outside converse and occupy themselves with a hare.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...

Terracotta Kylix Signed by Euphronios as Potter and Attributed to Onesimos as Painter in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, April 2011

nobody@flickr.com (ElissaSCA) — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 13:22:56 -0700

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Terracotta kylix (drinking cup)

Signed by Euphronios: Attributed to Onesimos

Period: Late Archaic

Date: ca. 490 B.C.

Culture: Greek, Attic

Medium: Terracotta

Dimensions: H. with handle 4 15/16 in. (12.6 cm)

Classification: Vases

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1912 (12.231.2) Anonymous Gift, 1971 (1971.54) Gift of E.D. Blake Vermeule, 1972 (1972.39.1, .2)

Accession Number: 12.231.2

Description:

Interior, Herakles and young boy
Exterior, Herakles fighting the sons of Eurytos; Herakles fighting Ops

Euphronios is probably the best known of the early red-figure artists called the Pioneers. During the latter part of his career, he signs as potter rather than painter, and he collaborates with various painters of whom Onesimos is one of the most accomplished. The representation on the interior shows the almost coloristic effects that Onesimos achieved with dilute glaze as well as his marvelous characterization of Herakles—young, wide-eyed, jaunty, and finely turned out.

Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1300...