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    The Appleton Museum of Art Central Florida College April 6‚ 2012 The Appleton Museum is undeniably a treasured gem to the Central Florida area. Many residents to the region are unaware of the history located right in their backyards. I’ve lived in the area my entire life and never had any knowledge of this incredible gallery. When I caught wind of the assignment‚ my initial thought was that I was going to have to go visit an old‚ beat up building that displays some prints that great artists

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    History of Kyrgyzstan Museum Essay The mummy The topic of my museum essay is a mummy lying in the museum. This artifact interested me a lot because of its uniqueness and originality. As far as I know‚ this is the only mummy keeping in our country. It is kept here from the 5th century. Its origin is the burial site of Kara-Bulak‚ Batken region‚ Osh province. The condition of a mummy is a natural state of mummification. The artifact itself is very interesting. There is a juniper coffin‚ the

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    I attended the art museum at the Getty Center built on the mountain sides of north Los Angeles. While attending the Getty I chose to photograph the ’Madonna and Child’ along with ’Flowers Still Life’ and my textbook object was the Galatea. My first museum object the Madonna and Child was created by Luca Della Robbia in Florence‚ Italy during the mid 1400’s.It’s a picture that displays Madonna in a blue robe‚ sitting down‚ holding what seems to be her naked child and alongside is a person unknown

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    Museum Paper I went to the Cantor Center for Visual Arts on Stanford Campus on 2/28/13. I saw a lot of sculptures and vases there. They are very beautiful and interested. The most interested one I think was Kleophon Painter‚ “Volute Krater”‚ ca. 430 BCE‚ Greece‚ red-figure terra cotta vase‚ size 26’ ¾” * 19’ *19’. Hazel D. Hansen Fund‚ 12‚ 1972 Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. This vase is located in the Iris & B Gerald Cantor Center from the classical period between 479-323 BCE

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    The Tenement Museum

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    The Tenement Museum The Tenement Museum is prestigious for its fine architecture and history that continues to relive itself. The tours of the museum show the lives of the people who once lived inside the tenements. The tours educate the visitors on historical events and display a museum unlike any other. The following essay will incorporate my experience at the museum along with the stories of the families that once dwelled in these tenements and lived during a time of economic struggle. In

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    Art Museum

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    Visual Analysis of a Museum Object On May 7‚ 2011‚ I went to the Timken Museum of art located at the southeast side of Balboa Park‚ San Diego. I chose a painting named “The Piazzetta at Venice” by artist Luca Carlevarijs (1663-1730 Venice). I t was very interesting painting that grabbed my attention at first. The size of painting was 38 x 76-7/8 inches‚ and painted with oil on canvas. The painting took half of the wall and the middle of the painting pointed directly to the viewer’s view

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    Ayala Museum

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    It is where collections of iconic paintings‚ historic dioramas and historic costumes ar displayed. Our class had a fieldtrip to the Ayala museum to control inspiration and to observe the vintage filipinana costumes. I havent been in a museum since grade-school‚ so I got precise mad when I arrived there. Before we went upstairs‚ where the main exhibits argon‚ we walked around the lobby theater of operations where there are pictures from Cory Aquinos memorial and articles of bloodstained habit that

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    Museum Visit

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    Museum visit paper The piece of art I chose is “Landscape” (Garden at St. Tropez) by Henri Edmond Cross (French‚ 1856–1910) this piece was done in oil on canvas. This was Marjorie Tiefenthaler Bequest and partial gift of Louise Uihlein Snell Fund of the Milwaukee Foundation M1996.29. As I took my time walking around the Art Museum‚ it was very difficult for me to choose just one. Nonetheless when I saw The Garden at St. Tropez by Henri Edmond Cross‚ I was amaze at how well the painter

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    Museum Critique

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    At the cooper Hewitt museum‚ a few pieces stood out to me in the Scarps and Kravis exhibits. On the first floor of the Cooper Hewitt museum‚ there is the “Scraps: Fashion‚ Textiles and Creative Rescue” exhibit. The exhibit reveals the work done by three designers; Luisa Cevese‚ Christina Kim‚ and Reiko Sudo. I truly enjoyed this exhibit‚ because it contained fabrics‚ fashion‚ and textiles‚ which are all intriguing to me. As a fashion designer‚ I was very interested in the textures and patterns incorporated

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    Sebastian Lazarte AP Art History Period 6 1/12/13 Museum Report For my museum report‚ I went to LACMA. I chose two artworks from the following art collections‚ Egyptian Art and Ancient Near East Art. The two artworks that I chose were Assyrian Relief Panels from Nimrud for Ancient Near East‚ and the Round Topped Stela for Egyptian Art. For my theme I chose religious beliefs. The religions of the Ancient Near East were mostly polytheistic. In Ancient Mesopotamia‚ the facts of nature were

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