Photographs; Montages; Promotional materials; Sales catalogs; Publicity; Publicity photographs; Advertisements; Advertising; Mail-order businesses; Business enterprises; Business & finance; Commerce; Art objects; Women; Hairstyles; Sitting;...
Originally arranged for photograph and reassembled 1984 by Jon Hendricks as installation, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; "This is an installation which closely follows a promotional photographic montage for de Ridder's distribution...
Mixed media assemblage including: an old wooden door, black velvet, bricks, wooden table, leather stretched over an armature of metal and other material to form a female nude, human hair, gas lamp (bec Auer type), twigs, aluminum, iron, glass,...
"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...
"Because precision in dating is impossible for the Paleolithic era, art historians usually can be no more specific than assigning a range of several thousand years to each artifact. But probably later in date than the Venus of Willendorf is...
Detail of a watercolor copy of a wall painting. "More remarkable still is a painting in one of the older rooms at Çatal Höyük that generally has been acclaimed as the world's first landscape (a picture of a natural setting in its own right,...
"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...
"The son and successor of Artaxerxes, Shapur I (r. 241-272), succeeded in further extending Sasanian territory. He also erected a great palace at Ctesiphon, the capital his father had established near modern Baghdad in Iraq. The central...
Roman copies of c. 477 BCE Greek bronzes by Kritios and Nesiotes; "The head of Harmodios [figure on right], taken to be similar to that of the Kritios Boy, has a typically Archaic hairstyle (closely packed, patterned curls) juxtaposed with a...
"The Central Court is surrounded by ceremonial areas on the west (top left) with the storage magazines beyond bordering the West Court. On the east side (lower right), the Residential Quarter rises two stories to the level of the Central...
Coins; Money; Metalwork; Silverwork; Portraits; Heads (Anatomy); Men; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Upper class; Military officers; Military personnel; People associated with military activities; Clothing &...
Nummus (left), A.D. 307. Billon, diameter approx. 1". American Numismatic Society, New York; medallion (right), ca. A.D. 315. Silver. Staatliche Munzsammlung, Munich.
Architecture; Buildings; Social & civic facilities; Government facilities; Mercantile facilities; Commercial facilities; Markets; Religious facilities; Temples; Hills; Archaeological sites; Ruins; Bird's-eye views; Aerial photographs; Aerial...
"The political, economic and cultural center of the ancient city was created on a level area between the hills of the Acropolis, on the right, and the hill of Kolonos Agoraios (Theseion), on the bottom." (Caption, p. 202)
Paintings; Oil paintings; Memorial works; Military officers; Military personnel; Symbols; Militarism; Friendship; Standards (Identifying artifacts); Military standards; Flags; Crosses; Military decorations; Awards; Emblems; Insignia; Badges;...
"Although one could read this image in the general context of wartime militarism, elements in the painting did have personal significance for Hartley; in particular, it includes references to his friend, Lieutenant Karl von Freyberg, with whom...
"Mosaic from the Augustan era that decorated the open triclinium of domus I, 5, 2; it is an allegory of the fleeting nature of earthly pleasures and of the leveling power of death. Below the skull, a butterfly and a wheel evoke the soul and...
"In this view, the palace of Nebuchadnezzar II, with its famous Hanging Gardens, can be seen just behind and to the right of the Ishtar Gate, to the west of the Processional Way. The Marduk Ziggurat looms up in the far distance on the east...
