“The large oecus (5) next to the nuptial bedchamber (4) contains the famous frieze representing the “mysteries” of the Dionysus cult that give the villa its name. The paintings here represent the initiation of a young woman into the mysteries...
Art and photography; Johnston, Annie F. (Annie Fellows), 1863-1931. Little Colonel series; Pewee Valley (Ky.)--Social life and customs--Pictorial works; Photograph albums; Portrait photographs; Tableaux; Upper class families--Kentucky--Pewee...
431 items by pioneering woman photographer Kate Matthews, of Pewee Valley, Kentucky. Best known for her photographs depicting characters in the Little Colonel series of children's books written by her friend and neighbor Annie Fellows Johnston,...
Appalachians (People); Appalachian Region--History; Appalachian Region--Social life and customs; Education--Appalachian Region; Education--Kentucky; Kentucky--Social life and customs; Rural schools--Kentucky--History; Oneida Baptist Institute;...
665 items from Louisville native Claude C. Matlack (1878-1944), an amateur photographer who, working as an engineer for his family's plumbing business, happened to capture on film the formative years of a settlement school built by feuding...
Architecture; Buildings; Stores & shops; Cafes; Restaurants; Fast food restaurants; Eating & drinking facilities; Commercial facilities; Mercantile facilities; Business enterprises; Business & finance; Commerce; Selling; Interiors;...
"A fine example of a thermopolium in Pompeii (I, 8, 8), with a stone counter and the jars ready to hold foods and beverages." (Caption, p. 135); "Among commercial enterprises of these types [shops, taverns and cafes], the most common...
Architecture; Architectural elements; Towers; Walls; City walls; Forts & fortifications
"As the town's wealth grew and powerful neighbors established themselves, the need for protection resulted in the first known permanent stone fortifications. By approximately 7500 BCE, the town, estimated to have had a population of more than...
Performance art; Video recording; Film stills; Men; Artists; Backs (Anatomy); Dance; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Geometry
"Carried out for the camera alone, Nauman's performances of the late 1960s often dealt with the artist's confinement in his studio. This was ironic given that elsewhere art was shrugging off its traditional solipsism and taking to the streets....
"Dali's variation on Paolo Uccello's work of the same title, this is probably his most sacrilegious painting." (Caption); The Profanation of the Host […] is one of Dali's most sacrilegious paintings (although later he tried to exonerate...
"Each of On Kawara's Date Paintings is individualized to some degree. Typefaces vary, as do the colors. They are always horizontal in format but each one corresponds to one of eight predetermined sizes." (Caption, p.178); "Much as...
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
Environmental art; Islands; Trees; Bays (Bodies of water); Bodies of water; Water; Aerial photographs; Aerial views; Bird's-eye views
"Europe's great master of Environmental Art is, of course, Christo, who continues to work triumphantly with a significance equal to the ever-greater ambition and scale of his projects. For the recent Surrounded Islands, Christo spent over $3...
"From the 'King's Grave' at Ur comes a splendid lyre that, in its restored state, resembles the instrument depicted in the feast scene on the Standard of Ur [from Tomb 779]. A magnificent bull's head caps the instrument's sound box. It is...
"Johnson's Glass House, an almost entirely transparent composition in glass and steel, challenged traditional notions of house as shelter. The Classical pavilion set in the pond (lower right) was underscaled to create the illusion of...
"Klein's leap took its place among texts advertising an imaginary 'Theatre of the Void'. The image wittily pitted Klein's artistic apotheosis against other newsworthy material of the day. The first Soviet and American space launches had...
"Klein's leap took its place among texts advertising an imaginary 'Theatre of the Void'. The image wittily pitted Klein's artistic apotheosis against other newsworthy material of the day. The first Soviet and American space launches had...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Fantasy; Allusions; Symbols; Sex; Relations between the sexes; Lust; Gays; Martyrs; Saints; People associated with religion; Sailors; Men; Women; Bathing beauties; Portraits; Self-portraits; Nudes; Muscles; Standing;...
"One of Dali's greatest paintings from the mid-1920s, not exhibited since 1927. The influence of Picasso is manifest. It develops the theme of Saint Sebastian that so fascinated Lorca [Federico García Lorca] and Dali." (Caption);...
"The Child-Woman is Gala, who appears here for the first time in Dali's work." (Caption); "Meanwhile, Dali had painted the first major work in which he alluded directly to the relationship with Gala that was partially to blame for...
"The figure traditionally interpreted as Minerva is actually the armed personification of a subjugated people." (Caption, p. 187); "The top of the attic story, set almost 18 meters above the grade, contains holes for the cramps that...
"The Lion Gate at Mycenae and the towering fortification wall circuit of which it formed a part were constructed a few generations before the presumed date of the Trojan War. At that time, wealthy Mycenaeans were laid to rest outside the...
"The Lion Gate at Mycenae and the towering fortification wall circuit of which it formed a part were constructed a few generations before the presumed date of the Trojan War. At that time, wealthy Mycenaeans were laid to rest outside the...
