The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Figure in Pensive Pose

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Ink Painting and the Rinpa Tradition

Program information

Part of a Sunday at the Met held in conjunction with the exhibition Designing Nature: The Rinpa Aesthetic in Japanese Art, on view May 26, 2012–January 13, 2013, this lecture features Yukio Lippit, Professor of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University.

Recorded September 30, 2012

The exhibition is made possible by The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Foundation.
The catalogue is made possible by the Richard and Geneva Hofheimer Memorial Fund.

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Figure in Pensive Pose

Period:: Northern Wei dynasty (386–534)
Date:: early 6th century
Culture:: China
Medium:: Limestone
Dimensions:: H. 20 1/2 in. (52.1 cm); W. 12 3/4 in. (32.4 cm)
Classification:: Sculpture
Credit Line:: Fletcher Fund, 1939
Accession Number:: 39.191

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