The Metropolitan Museum of Art - Situla

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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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Situla

Period:: Bronze and Iron Age period, Dongson culture
Date:: ca. 500 B.C.–A.D. 200
Culture:: Vietnam
Medium:: Bronze
Dimensions:: H. 8 1/2in. (21.6cm); Diam. 8 in. (20.3 cm)
Classification:: Metalwork
Credit Line:: Gift of Basha and Perry Lewis, 1999
Accession Number:: 1999.414.2

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