The object that I chose to study is a board for the game of “Pegs and Holes‚” which I found at the Museum of Fine Arts. The game board dates to 2000-1500 C.E. and is from the Levant region in the Near East. The object itself is a stone board with multiple holes carved into the top. The pegs seen in the museum are reproductions of what would have originally been ivory pieces. Played by two people‚ the game’s objective seems to have been for a player to race their pegs through the holes and seize
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Sir John Soane Museum Audio Tour John Soane 1753-1835 Lincoln’s Inn Fields & Exterior No.12: 1792-94‚ Soane is at peak of is career‚ born poor but married well to Elisa‚ heiress to her uncle’s great fortune after he passed. Combining Soane and Elisa’s they bought this freehold Has uninterrupted south light‚ close to coaches to high Holborn‚ 25mins walk to his work in Bank of England‚ close to theatre in Covent garden‚ and the royal academy of Somerset house Building was demolished and
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For my first field trip assignment‚ I decided to go to the Philadelphia Art Museum. Believe it or not‚ this was my first time visiting this museum. By walking through the museum I saw some amazing paintings and sculptors. These artists were truly talented in what they were able to create. It was extremely difficult to choose a single piece of art and categorize it as my favorite. However‚ there were a few sculptors that left a lasting impression on me. The sculptor of the man nailed to a cross
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The adventure movie‚ Night at the Museum which was produced in 2006‚ evokes different emotions throughout the movie. The movie tells the story of Larry‚ an unemployed man who is forced to get a job at the national museum as a night guard for his son’s benefit. What he doesn’t know is that the museum comes to life at night due to an Egyptian stone which people are planning to steal so he comes together with the museums exhibits to stop them. In the movie‚ it becomes evident that the director was able
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Birmingham Museum of Art Presents: Pompeii: Tales From An Eruption "Many strange things happened to us there‚ and we had much to fear." Pliny the Younger The quote above comes to us from one of the letters of Pliny the Younger‚ the namesake of the man who was the commander of the Roman Fleet in 79 A.D. Pliny the Elder was last seen by his nephew as he prepared to sail across the Bay of Naples to Pompeii; the older man would perish in an attempt to rescue citizens of a coastal Italian town
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The Cleveland Museum of art has a major collection of works from Italy‚ roman‚ Egyptian‚ and African art. Also‚ the great collection of earthly painting‚ religious painting and sculptures go back to Ancient Rome and Greece. Various forms of art can be individual from other collection such as sculpture‚ portraits‚ and earthly‚ religious paintings. The Annunciation‚ by Bouts at the Cleveland museum of art falls into the category of religious art. The artist that made this painting‚ Albert Bouts‚ is
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YOUR NAME: Fares Albahairi FULL CLASS NAME AND SECTION: Art 2140 Themes in Visual Culture INSTRUCTOR’S NAME: Marsha Pippenger FULL NAME OF MUSEUM OR GALLERY YOU VISITED: The Art Institute of Chicago DATE OF YOUR VISIT: 10/27/2013 WAS ADMISSION CHARGED‚ NO ATTITUDE OF STAFF: They are helpful the guy that helped me he was really funny. TITLE OF ARTWORK YOU CHOSE (if not titled‚ say Untitled and use italics): Paris Street: Rainy Day by Gustave Caillebotte. ARTIST’S NAME (if name
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As I entered the Norton Simon Museum ‚ the first exhibit I saw was a sketch done by the famous Pop artist Andy Warhol. The drawing was of canned tomatoes by Val Vita ‚ a company that Simon owned‚ and was commissioned for Simon’s birthday by his sister . As I walked through the extensive collection of paintings‚ drawings ‚ and sculptures‚ many of the pieces caught my eye. The museum was divided into different chronological periods so that one could see the evolution of art and the themes that were
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The artwork that I chose was “In Front Of A Nightclub “ by Jeff Wall. The photograph immediately caught my interest due to it size and the variety that the picture presented . The picture depicts a scene outside of a nightclub. There are a few people congregated by the entrance while the others are walking outside. I initially thought of the photograph as a scene of a normal sidewalk with and entrance to a certain place. To me the artist seemed to be conveying the grittiness and contrast of everyday
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Executive summary As the tourism industry is doing well throughout the world‚ there are a lot of tourism sites which has gained benefits from it and one of it is the Singapore Zoo. However‚ many of the tourism sites do not aware of the visitor-related management issues that are happening under their area of control. For the Singapore Zoo‚ there is currently an overcrowding issue which has brought detriments for them. In order to deal with the overcrowding issue‚ the manager of the Singapore Zoo
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