“Moving from the atrium to the exedra, one passes through a tablinum or open living room (2), decorated with Egyptian motifs. They were executed with a miniaturist’s precision on a black wall polished to a mirrorlike shine. It is one of the...
“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)...
1936 Derby crowd in garden area at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Crowd of people around a garden with rocks, small plants, and a central pond with a tiered fountain coming out of a pile of rocks. Most of the crowd is behind...
1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Side view of the grandstand crowd, most of them standing, with the track to the right. A row of men with billy clubs polices the crowd from the other side of the...
1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Side view of the grandstand crowd, most of them standing, with the track to the right. A row of men with billy clubs polices the crowd from the other side of the...
1936 Derby grandstand crowd at Churchill Downs, Louisville, Kentucky, May 2, 1936. Some spectators sit above and most stand shoulder to shoulder on the ground behind a fence outside the track. Across the track, there is also a smaller crowd at the...
Leather-bound guest book dating from 1948 to 2011, featuring signatures of attendees of Louisville Orchestra premieres; Grawemeyer Composition winners; and official guests of the School of Music.
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...
"A moving tribute to her mother, this work combines the personal and the political. The quilt includes a narrative - the witty story of the family of Aunt Jemima, most familiar as the stereotypical black 'mammy' but here a successful African...
Paintings; Discussion; Debates; Politics & government; Political issues; Political parties; Men; Artists; Clothing & dress; Suits (Clothing); Coats; Cigarettes; Details
"According to the artist this painting depicted an 'ideological discussion'. As such it evokes the stormy realist-abstraction debates, and allied political differences, among artists in Italy after the Second World War. Stylistically, the work...
"According to the artist this painting depicted an 'ideological discussion'. As such it evokes the stormy realist-abstraction debates, and allied political differences, among artists in Italy after the Second World War. Stylistically, the work...
"Alongside his own production of visual poetry, which took the form of silkscreen prints as well as inscribed objects, Finlay was significant for his involvement in the 'small press' publishing activities associated with the alternative poetry...
Women; Men; Spouses; Couples; Heads (Anatomy); Hairstyles; Eyes; Marriage; Relations between the sexes; Crying; Mental states; Pain
"An obsessive self-portraitist, Kahlo reveled in her distinctive features - heavy, continuous eyebrows, piercing gaze, shadowy mustache, small but ripe, cherry-red mouth, massive dark hair braided like a halo in the traditional Mexican style....
"Broodthaer's Musée d'Arte Moderne assumed various forms. The 'Department of Eagles', which contained the exhibits pictured here, had further permutations in other venues. In a Düsseldorf showing of 1970 the museum's 'nineteenth-century'...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Abstract paintings; Abstract works
"By 1947 - even earlier in drawings - the artist had begun to experiment with all-over painting, a labyrinthine network of lines, splatters, and paint drips from which emerged the great 'poured' paintings of the next few years. These...
"Dali prided himself on being the world's greatest ever painter of the female posterior." (Caption); "It was probably early in 1950 that Emmanuel Looten, a little-known Flemish poet, had made Dali the unexpected and 'gelatinous' gift...
"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...
"Duchamp's most outrageous Ready-Made was a urinal that he submitted as a sculpture to a New York exhibition mounted by the Society of Independent Artists in 1917. He turned it upside down, signed it 'R. Mutt' and called it a Fountain. The...
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...
