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Chinese Hardstone Carvings

June 1, 2016

By Jason Sun

With exceptional artistic sensibility and intimate knowledge of the material, [a master craftsman] is able to visualize the completed product in an unworked rock.

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Ivory and Boxwood Carvings, 1450–1800

October 1, 2008

By Johanna Hecht

Responsive to the cutting of fine detail, it enables carvers to achieve great artistic and emotional expressiveness in a highly compressed format.

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Early Maori Wood Carvings

October 1, 2002

By Jennifer Wagelie

Examples of ancient Maori wood sculpture are rare but a number survive, due, in part, to the practice of hiding valuable carvings by immersing them in swamps during times of unrest.

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Bannerstones: Ancient Indigenous Stone Carvings, North America (6000–1000 BCE)

February 18

By Anna Blume

Bannerstones were made by nomadic hunter-gatherer peoples in the eastern half of North America between 6000 and 1000 BCE during the Archaic period.

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Hellenistic Jewelry

April 1, 2007

By Colette Hemingway and Séan Hemingway

A wide variety of jewelry types were produced in the Hellenistic period-earrings, necklaces, pendants, pins, bracelets, armbands, thigh bands, finger rings, wreaths, diadems, and other elaborate hair ornaments.

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Cave Sculpture from the Karawari

October 1, 2003

By Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Preserved in the [Kawawari] caves for generations, some of the carvings are between 200 and 400 years old, making them the oldest surviving examples of wood sculpture from New Guinea.

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The Art of the Book in the Middle Ages

October 1, 2001

By Department of Medieval Art and the Cloisters

The most lavish medieval books were bound in covers set with enamels, jewels, and ivory carvings.

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La Dolce Morte: A Sound World between Creation and Being

April 7, 2016

By Chloe Yoon

MetLiveArts Intern Chloe Yoon meditates on the visceral experience she had during the recent world-premiere performance of Suzanne Farrin's La Dolce Morte in The Met's Vélez Blanco Patio.

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Monte Albán: Stone Sculpture

October 1, 2001

By Department of Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Many rulers are named in the hieroglyphic inscriptions that appear on the carvings; the inscriptions too detail the very competitive nature of Oaxaca society at the time.

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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.