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Ancient Greek Bronze Vessels

April 1, 2008

By Amy Sowder

Many more bronze vessels must have existed in antiquity because they were less expensive than silver and gold, and more have survived because they were buried in tombs or hidden in hoards beneath the ground.

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Moche Portrait Vessels

September 1, 2021

By Joanne Pillsbury

Artists of the Moche cultures excelled at the creation of “portrait vessels,” so-called for their striking apparent resemblance to specific individuals.

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Hellenistic and Roman Cyprus

October 1, 2004

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

The wealth of its natural resources and its strategic position on the principal maritime route linking Greece and the Aegean with the Levant and Egypt made Cyprus a major prize for the warring Hellenistic rulers.

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Geometric and Archaic Cyprus

October 1, 2004

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

The most important development on Cyprus between about 1200 and 1050 B.C. was the arrival of successive waves of immigrants from the Greek mainland. These newcomers brought with them, and perpetuated, Mycenaean customs of burial, dress, pottery, production, and warfare.

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Birds of the Andes

June 1, 2009

By Hélène Bernier

Andean people attentively observed the natural world, and the various roles attributed to birds in religions and artistic representations often seem to derive from their properties and behaviors in nature.

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Immaterial: Clay

June 22, 2022

Touch it, smell it... eat it?

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Classical Cyprus (ca. 480–ca. 310 B.C.)

July 1, 2007

By Department of Greek and Roman Art

Greek artists and intellectuals were welcomed in Cyprus, although there was always more incentive for Cypriot sculptors, philosophers, and writers to move from Cyprus to the Greek mainland.

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Immaterial: Clay Transcript

June 22, 2022

Read the complete episode transcript with images and artwork information

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Cyprus—Island of Copper

October 1, 2004

By Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway

Cypriot smiths produced some of the finest bronzework in the eastern Mediterranean, most notably tripods and four-sided stands.

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On Birds and Beauty

August 10, 2016

By Alexandra Gimbel

College Intern Alexandra Gimbel takes a close look at a 15th-century manuscript depicting a scene from the famous Persian poem The Concourse of Birds.