In studying the culture of any people we learn that no group has been absolutely independent of influences from other people. No man indeed can say that he has attained anything of value absolutely by himself; an individual must give credit to the...
Linseed oil is the oil from the plant linum usitatissiumum. It is not a new oil, for we read that the Greeks and Romans used it, not as it is used today, but as a food, and it is still used for that purpose in some countries, especially in Russia,...
Homecoming float created by the Wandering Greeks in the homecoming parade on Broadway in Louisville. The float features a structure with a slanted roof and another with a facade that reads "UofL Powerhouse" mounted on a trailer. A banner...
A group of young women, probably students at the Kentucky Home School for Girls, pose for a photo in Louisville, Kentucky's Central Park. They are dressed in togas and carry various props indicating they may have been putting on a play about the...
Fraternities & sororities; Racing; Bicycles & tricycles; University of Louisville--Students
Pegasus Pedalathon competition for University of Louisville students at Fairgrounds Motor Speedway on April 28, 1968. The Pegasus Pedalathon was a bicycle/tricycle racing competition for greeks and other student campus groups held at the time of...
Paintings; Mixed media; Women; Nudes; Beauty; Aesthetics; Body image; Human body; Body parts
Corps de Dames series, 1950; "Child art, which had been a major source of interest for early twentieth-century modernists such as Joan Miró or Paul Klee, was a source here. This was annexed to an adult desire to recover primordial fantasies...
"This head of Isis, turned to the right, with delicately parted lips, is almost entirely intact except for the ends of a few locks of hair and the left edge of her tiara. The neck stops at a recessed fitting, a tenon, indicating that the head...
"Every so often as the excavation continued, one of the workmen would shout: 'Another marble here!' In the end, we found ourselves - entranced and speechless - before a group of sculptures lying side by side: from west to east ([in this...
An adaptation of a Greek wallpainting of c. 310 BCE by Philoxenos of Eretria. The culminating moment in the Battle of Issos between Greeks and Persians, the confrontation between Alexander and Darius.
