Curator Alisa LaGamma on "Figure from a Reliquary Ensemble: Seated Female."
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Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world. Each episode is interpreted by a Museum photographer.
"The most powerful artistic impression of women"
"She’s completely at ease and staring down any kind of gaze."
Alisa LaGamma
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Alisa LaGamma
Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Ceil and Michael E. Pulitzer Curator in Charge, Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas
Photography by Anna-Marie Kellen
Art Mentioned
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Okak-Fang artist
19th century