Information from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (10/2011): "1955. Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front, Overall, with box open, 33 5/8 x 26 x 3" (85.3...
Encaustic and collage on canvas with plaster casts; Information from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (10/2011): "1955. Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front,...
Caption information: Liegender Halbakt nach rechts [Reclining half-nude facing right] / um 1907 [c. 1907] / blauer und roter Farbstift [blue and red crayon; color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color pencil” (Amer.); “crayon”...
Caption information: Liegender Halbakt nach rechts mit aufgestelltem rechten Bein [Reclining half-nude (seen from the right) with the right leg raised (drawn up)] / um 1914 [c. 1914] / roter Farbstift [red crayon; color pencil] [Note:...
Caption information: Bildnis einer Dame mit entblosstem Oberkorper [Portrait of a Lady with bare torso (upper part of the body)] / 1907/08 / Bleistift, blauer und roter Farbstift [pencil, blue and red crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift”...
Caption information: Zwei liegende Frauen in Umarmung [Two women lying in an embrace] / um 1907 [c. 1907] / roter Farbstift [red crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color pencil” (Amer.); “crayon” or “color...
Caption information: Schwangere Frau nach links [Pregnant woman facing left (seen from the left)] / um 1908 [c. 1908] / Bleistift, roter und blauer Farbstift [pencil, red and blue crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color...
Encaustic and collage on canvas with plaster casts; Information from the MOMA website (http://www.moma.org/) (10/2011): "1955. Encaustic on newspaper and cloth over canvas surmounted by four tinted-plaster faces in wood box with hinged front,...
Performance art; Performances; Painting; Body painting; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Artists; Men; Dandies; Women; Nudes; Audiences; Spectators; Orchestras; Music ensembles; Musicians; Sitting; Musical instruments; Clothing & dress; Suits...
"This performance exemplifies Klein's participation in the masculinist tradition of the dandy. The self-contained male, renouncing biological productivity (symbolized by the 'fecundity' of the paint-covered women launching themselves at...
Sculpture; Portraits; Emperors; Rulers; Men; People associated with politics & government; Clothing & dress; Capes (Clothing); Fasteners; Hairstyles; Beards; Mustaches
Discovered at Acqua Traversa (near Rome), 1674. "This bust, in nearly perfect condition, is characterized by the contrast between the light and brilliant skin of the face and the dark mass of hair, covered with concretions. Numerous grooves...
Sculpture; Men; Athletes; People associated with entertainment & sports; Warriors; Nudes; Muscles; Genitals; Hairstyles; Reproductions
Roman marble copy from Pompeii, Italy, after a Greek bronze original of ca. 450-440 BCE. "One of the most frequently copied Greek statues was the Doryphoros (Spear Bearer) by Polykleitos, a work that epitomizes the intellectual rigor of...
Note the front steps of the podium, the deep pronaos, and the carved column bases (Caption, Pedley, p.343); "This huge and surprising temple replaced the gigantic Archaic temple burned down by the Persians in 494 BC. It was raised high on a...
"Watercolor reconstruction of the Queen's Megaron by Piet de Jong. Note that the 'Dolphin Fresco' was found outside to the east and is more likely to have been a floor painting from an upper story." (Caption, p. 173)
Fresco detail, initiate hiding in the lap of the woman who accompanies her in the various phases of the rite. "[…] it still remains uncertain whether the subject is a woman's initiation into an Orphic or Dionysian mystery cult or rather the...
