During our trip the the Metropolitan Museum‚ our class explored various exhibits‚ including the Greeks‚ early Tribal works‚ Renaissance art‚ and 19th century art. One piece in particular that stood out to me‚ and reminded me of a text we’ve read this semester‚ was Prayer in the Mosque by Jean-Lèon Gèrome in 1871(87.15.130). This oil on canvas depicts the interior of a mosque in seventh century Egypt and reminded me of the readings we had done on Al Andalus from Jarbel Rodriguez‚ where the description
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circling the museum for an hour‚ bouncing from security guard to security guard (trying to find my way to the baroque sculptures) I was finally able to answer that question. The two examples I chose were "Nessus and Dejanira" from the Baroque period and "Loving Couple" from Eastern India. The reason I chose these two specifically is because they both involved a man and a woman‚ making it more interesting for comparing and contrasting. I also chose five additional pieces to discuss later in my paper. Francesco
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Alex Skolnik November 23‚ 2013 Art History Outline 1) Title of the piece: Metropolitan Kouros Date: 600-590 BCE Medium: Naxian Marble Dimensions: Heigh 6’4 5/8" Meseum location: The Metropolitan Meseum of Art 2) This free standing sculpture shows signs of egyptian influence on Greek art. The pose has one foot standing forward while one is behind‚ the arms rest at the side with supports attatched to the tehighs‚ and the face shows no emotion and the eyes seem to have no pupils
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not quantitative amount of time to make a drastic change in artwork‚ however much altars and it can be traced back to the zeitgeist of the period surrounding the art. Take a step into the Metropolitan Museum of Art‚ when gazing at the masterpieces take a look at the dates of the
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I caught the faint laughter of the museum inhabitants and the shuffle of their feet‚ but other than that‚ I walked around the Metropolitan Museum in silence. The statues looked ethereal and stoic‚ the clay figures reminded me of a paused TV‚ but I was searching for something that I could hear. I strolled up to Gao Keming’s handscroll “Stream and Mountains under Fresh Snow” and the painting was more than what you could catch at a first glance. I caught the sound of a rushing steam‚ the stuffed crunch
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Tyanne Rowe Museum Paper The Mihrab (prayer niche) dated 12th century‚ the point of origin being the city of Isfahan located in Iran is the object that captured my attention. This piece is considered to be a ceramic design made of “polychrome glazed cut tiles on a stone paste body that was later set into mortar”. Madrasa Imami is a school‚ in which this piece in was created 1354‚ later it was sold to Arthur U. Pope in 1931. When arriving at the museum I noticed that the items on display in
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people to express their imagination. Once a person looks at an artwork whether it is a drawing‚ sculpture‚ or pottery the viewer is taken to the artist’s world. This paper will discuss the description‚ analysis‚ and interpretation of a painting called Regatta at Saint-Adresse painted by the French painter Claude Monet at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Monet designed this painting in 1867 and applied oil painting on canvas. The size of the painting is twenty-nine and five-eighths inches by forty inches
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in the afterlife and shared similar underlying ideas; nevertheless‚ their way to prepare the deceased for the next life and funeral services differed in many ways. To illustrate their practices‚ I have chosen two artifacts displayed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Met): a coffin from Ancient Egypt and a cinerary urn from Ancient Roman’s times. Both pieces reflect different ways of treating the corpses of their deceased and prepare the dead for the journey to the afterlife which undoubtedly was
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The artifact that I picked from Metropolitan Museum of Art is called Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara of the Lion’s Roar. It is a large wood statue of an Avalokiteshvara‚ the basic idol of Buddhism‚ completed around the 12th century in China during the Ming Dynasty. The Buddha Statue is a representation of the philosophical belief system of Buddhism. Different Buddha Statues have different meanings. Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara symbolizes "the compassion in the world and the willingness to bear the pain
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art has one of the finest Asian art collections that has enlightened and strengthened my understanding in my personal art experience. The Museum itself is an artistic architectural structure that graces the entire block on 82nd Street in Manhattan. Entering inside‚ I sensed myself going back into an era‚ into a past where people traded ideas and learned from each other. It is a past‚ where I still find their works of yesteryears vividly within my grasp‚ to be remembered
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