In the 1990s, especially the years before and after Hong Kong's return to the People's Republic of China in 1997, some celebrated and talented Hong Kong film stars, such as Jackie Chan, Yun-Fat Chow and Michelle Yeoh, sought their career success in...
Wolf, Hugo, 1860-1903; Music and literature; Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von, 1749-1832. West-östlicher Divan; Ḥāfiẓ, 14th cent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's West-ostlicher Divan combines the Persian influence of the fourteenth-century poet Hafiz with Goethe's own Germanic literary heritage. The result was a synthesis of symbolism and multivalent meanings that Goethe himself...
In fulfillment of the thesis project requirement for the Master of Fine Arts Degree at the University of Louisville, I portrayed the multiple roles of Clytemnestra, Electra and Athena in Dr. Steve Schultz's translation of Aeschylus'...
In fulfillment of the thesis project requirement for the Master of Fine Arts Degree at the University of Louisville, I portrayed the role of Paulina in William Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. The production was directed by Dennis Krausnick,...
View of the stage of a theatre during a performance. The set is inside a stone building with bars on the windows, and the cast includes five men (wearing long jackets, ruffled collars, and pants tucked into high boots), two of whom appear to be...
Character portrait of Miss Ray Maskell in costume for the role of "Little Lord Fauntleroy," whom she portrayed at Macauley's Theatre on November 18-23, 1889 (alternating performances with Tommy Russell). She wears her hair in long blonde...
Portrait of young woman reclining with a book in a window seat. Her hair is in ringlets (tied back in a bow), and she wears a short-sleeve dress with white collar and embroidered hem. Although the handwritten annotation reads "Peg Ryan,"...
Autographed portrait of young woman seated on floor near seat holding a suitcase amid brown paper and small items. She wears long-sleeve, belted dark dress with white ruffled collar and dark hat with flowers around brim. Although the handwritten...
Autographed full-length portrait of young woman, wearing long-sleeve, belted dark dress with white ruffled collar and dark hat with flowers around brim. She carries a package, a small dog, and a suitcase. Although the handwritten annotation reads...
Portrait of young woman kneeling in a window seat beside a small reclining dog. Her hair is in ringlets (tied back in a bow), and she wears a short-sleeve dress with white collar. Although the handwritten annotation reads "Peg Ryan," this...
Portrait of young woman partially obscured behind curtain. Her hair is curled, and she wears dark lipstick. Although the handwritten annotation reads "Peg Ryan," this is likely actress Elsa Ryan, who portrayed Peg in "Peg o' My...
Full-length portrait of young woman, seated, wearing long-sleeve, belted dark dress with white ruffled collar and dark hat with flowers around brim. She holds a package and a small dog, and rests her feet on a suitcase. Although the handwritten...
Portrait of performer Doris Keane with her hair in pin curls, leaning her chin on her right hand. She portrayed Mme. Cavallini in "Romance," by Edward Sheldon, at Maxine Elliott's Theatre in New York City in 1913, but there is no record...
Elizabeth Matthews Feagin sits in a large wooden chair with a book in her lap, her right elbow on the arm of the chair and her chin in her hand. The pose resembles that in a rather famous photograph taken of Elizabeth decades earlier when she...
“One of the finest – and most controversial – works of third-century relief sculpture is the fragmentary sarcophagus found at Acilia, near Rome. It is an example of a later form of Roman coffin that art historians call the lenos (bathtub)...
“One of the finest – and most controversial – works of third-century relief sculpture is the fragmentary sarcophagus found at Acilia, near Rome. It is an example of a later form of Roman coffin that art historians call the lenos (bathtub)...
"Further insight into Sumerian religious beliefs and rituals comes from a cache of sculptures reverently buried beneath the floor of a temple at Eshnunna (modern Tell Asmar) when the structure was remodeled. Carved of soft gypsum and inlaid...
"Just inside the Lion Gate, [Heinrich] Schliemann uncovered what archaeologists now designate as Grave Circle A. It predates the Lion Gate and the walls of Mycenae by some three centuries. Grave Circle A encloses six deep shafts that had...
