Works of Art (18)
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Antefix with the head of Medusa, 6th century B.C.,
Tarantine; Said to be from Taranto,
Terracotta (26.60.73) |
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Architectural Ensemble from a Jain Meeting Hall, last quarter of 16th century, India, Gujarat, Patan, Teak with traces of color (16.133) |
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Dish in the Form of a Temple, 3rd5th century, Roman or Byzantine; Found in Carthage (now in Tunisia, North Africa), Rock crystal (55.135.5) |
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Eagle Relief, 10th13th century, Mexico; Toltec, Andesite/dacite, paint (93.27.2) |
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Foundation peg in the shape of the forepart of a lion, 22002000 B.C., Probably Tell Mozan (ancient Urkish), northeastern Syria, Bronze (48.180) |
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Ionic capital, torus (foliated base), and parts of a fluted column shaft from the Temple of Artemis at Sardis, 4th century B.C., Greek, Lydian, Marble (26.59.1) |
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Magical stela, Late Period, Dynasty 30, reign of Nectanebo II, ca. 360343 B.C., Egyptian, Greywacke (50.85) |
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Maitreya altarpiece, 5th year of the Zhengguang era, dated 524; Northern Wei dynasty, Hebei Province, China, Gilt bronze (38.158.1a-n) |
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The Old Plum, Edo period, ca. 1645, Attributed to Kano Sansetsu (Japanese), Four sliding door panels (fusuma); ink, color, gold leaf on paper (1975.268.48a-d) |
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Orthostat relief: hunting scene, 850830 B.C.; Neo-Hittite period, Excavated at south wall of Temple Palace, Tell Halaf, northern Syria, Basalt (43.135.2) |
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Pagode: Costumes Parisiennes, 1914, Étienne Drian (French), Hand-colored print (LY62.38.1[20]) |
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Rafter finial in the shape of a dragon head and wind chime, Late Unified Sillaearly Koryô dynasty, 10th century, Korea, Gilt bronze (1999.263ab) |
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Standing man, 1st2nd century A.D.; Parthian period, Iran, Gray stone (51.72.1) |
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Temple of Dendur, Roman period, ca. 15 B.C., Egyptian; Dendur, Nubia, Sandstone (68.154) |
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Temple of Edfu, 1867, Gustave Le Gray (French), Albumen silver print from paper negative (2005.100.192) |
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Temple strut with a devata standing on a hermit sage, 13th century, Nepal, Wood (1988.148.2) |
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Textile Tent Divider, 19th20th century, Sudan; Beja peoples, Cotton, leather, beads, cowrie shells, palm leaf (1996.455) |
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Various Roman Ionic capitals compared with Greek examples, from Julien-David Le Roy's Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grèce (1758): Plate 20 of Della magnificenza ed architettura de' romani, 1761, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian), Engraving (41.71.1.7.20) |
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Thematic Essays (19)
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