Sentences with phrase «ancient objects from»

Here 40 ancient objects from the Iraq Museum in Baghdad (some dating back to 6100BC) are shown alongside contemporary work by eight Iraqi artists and recent paintings made by the Belgian artist Francis Alys on a visit to Mosul.

In an effort to share more of our favourite ancient objects from around the world, Ancient History Encyclopedia staff...

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On Wednesday, almost 4,000 ancient artifacts - including objects from the «lost city» of Irisagrig - that had been smuggled into the U.S. were...

IF THEY exist at all, most unglazed clay objects from ancient times are now rubble, mere fragments of their former glory.

Reassured by his nondestructive technique, curators at the Smithsonian and several other museums agreed to let a team led by Moini sample silk objects spanning over 2000 years of history, from ancient Chinese silks and French Renaissance tapestries to a U.S. Civil War flag and silk spun last year.

Poring through a database of objects in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, scientists at the Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, Colorado, found debris from an ancient collision.

CHIPPED OFF Tooth damage sustained by Homo naledi, an ancient South African humanlike species, resulted from a diet heavy on hard or gritty objects, researchers say.

Ancient skulls found in Spain reveal how the earliest Neanderthals differed from their ancestors, suggesting their jaws changed shape to grip objects

«It would be hard to dispute that this is the single most information - rich object that has been uncovered by archaeologists from ancient times.»

«If existing objects in space couldn't have combined to make Earth's unique mix of water and other elements, the planet must have formed from — and entirely depleted — an ancient supply of water - rich material that has no modern analog, Drake and Righter argue.»

Due to Kapteyn's proximity to Sol and its deduced ancient origin from outside the galactic disk, the system has been an object of high interest among astronomers.

The Manchester Museum houses over 18,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan, making one of the largest collections in Britain and one with world - class holdings in a number of areas.

The Manchester Museum houses over 18,000 objects from ancient Egypt and Sudan, making one of the largest collections in Britain and one with world - class holdings in a number of areas.

Courtesy of the clip, we receive new plot details, specifically the inclusion of Monarch, a secret scientific organization tasked with discovering proof of ancient species who are still around today; M.U.T.O., the object of Monarch's search; and a namedrop of Godzilla from John Goodman «s character, Bill Randa.

See artefacts and objects throughout history from Ancient Egypt to the Romans and Ancient Greece.

This resource uses objects to examine the roles women played in ancient Greece from weaving to ritual ceremonies.

Grade Level: n / a The Ancient China Website utilizes objects from the British Museum's collection to present this online resource for teachers and students.

This oversize volume attempts to replicate a museum, exhibiting several representative objects from a variety of ancient cultures, all selected from museum collections worldwide.

Brown's illustrations steal the show: taking cues from ancient Egyptian artwork, she uses red, lapis, gold, and brown to fill the pages with objects and imagery characteristic of royal burials.

So she spends her days (quite happily, mind you) exploring the nooks and crannies of the museum, reading ancient Egyptian hieroglyphics as easily as you or I might read the daily newspaper, sleeping in a sarcophagus (comfortable and free of drafts) and surreptitiously neutralizing the many cursed objects that her oblivious mother brings back from her expeditions.

Event Goals: The object of the event: to collect Ancient Page tokens from Black Kats.

Travel across lands — from Ancient Egypt to The Old West, Planet Hulk and New York City in 2099 — and transport objects or characters through the centuries!

Let loose in a world that begs you to explore every corner, the most valuable object Aloy owns is her Focus, a gadget from the ancient world clipped to her ear.

Museum of Stones, a massive installation by Brancusi - influenced Isamu Noguchi, will be supplemented with fifty works by thirty other contemporary artists, as well as by fifteen ancient Chinese rock - related objects, which are on loan from the Met.

In a modest sized rectangular white walled exhibition space, objects of daily use, artifacts ancient and new, paintings and pots, quilts, and kimonos were arrayed on two tiers, hung from the ceiling, against works hung on wall that were subtly dematerialized by natural light coming from unseen skylights along the edges of the dropped ceiling.

For the first edition of Amsterdam Art Fair Dürst Britt & Mayhew presents a solo presentation by Dutch artist Pieter Paul Pothoven, whose artistic practice concerns itself with the historic and social connotations of various valuable objects, ranging from lapis lazuli to ancient Egyptian mirrors.

Archaeology - themed exhibition to complement Terracotta Army: Legacy of the First Emperor of China From uncovering objects in a virtual dig to studying ancient works of art to understand their age, function and make - up, visitors to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts» new Dig It!

Focusing on a single work or a grouping of objects, from ancient Chinese ritual bronzes to artists» multiples of the 1960s, Hotspots feature new research, complementary material, and multimedia content.

Plus: Ancient citadel in Turkey threatened by construction work New York neighbourhood group objects to Ai Weiwei art project and Berkshire Museum board turns down financial offer to halt sales from its collection

Over a millennium later, in 1998, divers searching for sea cucumbers uncovered the wreckage, a dazzling trove of more than 60,000 objects which has remade scholarship on topics ranging from ancient trade policy to the history of porcelain.

The exhibition features a selection of ancient Egyptian and Nubian artworks in wood, stone and papyrus, and 19th - and 20th - century masks, figures and ritual objects made by artists from regions south of the Sahara.

Three years after the Belgian artist's first U.S. retrospective stopped in Dallas, he mounts a Raid the Icebox - style that presents a (mostly) career - spanning selection of his portraits with portraits, masks, funerary objects and more from the Menil Collection's ancient, African, Native American and modern - and - contemporary collections.

To Live Forever was organized by the Brooklyn Museum and includes 119 objects selected from its renowned collection of ancient Egyptian art.

Where Art Meets Science: Ancient Sculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancient oAncient Sculpture from the Hindu - Buddhist World, a focused exhibition of primarily Cambodian sculpture from the Norton Simon foundations» permanent collections, examines the connoisseurship and conservation involved in identifying and preserving these ancient oancient objects.

Explore the cultural diversity and rich history of Africa's people through works made from ancient stone, clay, wood, and metal, as well as utilitarian objects, musical instruments, ceremonial costumes and contemporary paintings.

Facilities include works on paper with more than 3,000 prints and drawings; painting storage with works from the Renaissance to the present; and object storage with Greek and Roman pottery and glass, Ancient American ceramics and African and European Medieval and Renaissance sculpture and artifacts.

A selection of ancient artifacts from the National Museum of Beirut, melted together by shell fire endured during the Lebanese Civil War, speaks to the preservation of objects whose profound transformations make them even more powerful representatives of the past.

The exhibition continues with the Bureau for the Centre of the Study for Surrealism and its Legacy, a recreation of a 1920s curator's office filled with evocative objects, artefacts and specimens from ancient and modern culture.

From our partners at Art Practical, today we bring you Danica Willard Sachs» assessment of Sara VanDerBeek's solo show Ancient Objects, Still Lives at Altman Siegel Gallery in San Francisco.

Adeniyi - Jones draws from specific historical objects to create his own mythologies and imagined representations of ancient royalty as well as deities of the Yoruba, called orisha.

Its permanent collection of more than 84,000 objects includes paintings, sculpture, decorative arts, costume, furniture, and other works of art from every part of the world, including objects from Ancient Egypt, Greece, and Rome, and art of all periods from Asia, Europe, and the Americas, up to the latest in contemporary art.

Sean Kelly announces From Pre-History to Post-Everything, a group exhibition that presents ancient objects alongside contemporary paintings, providing the opportunity for a visual dialogue between the forms found in ancient cultures and the forms being investigated by today's youngest generation of painters working with abstraction.

Label text for objects in the exhibition Ancient and Medieval Art from a Dallas Private Collection, July 19 — August 23, 1981 at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts.

The mural will be complemented by ancient to contemporary objects from the DMA's collection, including an ancestral Sikyatki Polychrome bowl with flower design and a modern kachina (katsina) doll of Palhikmana, among works by other contemporary Hopi artists.

Along with the subject's own work, Larsen and his team included a chair by Frank Lloyd Wright, a sculpture by Donald Judd, prints by Vasily Kandinsky and Roy Lichtenstein, ancient religious objects from India and Pakistan, and an array of other art and design pieces to contextualize Sottsass's wide - ranging influences.

These have been mischievously interspersed with «ancient» bronze objects purchased by Beard from eBay, inviting us to ponder on the magical — and confusing — power of a museum display to render even the most insignificant object precious.

Among the stunning array of ancient objects on display is a rare and exquisitely carved Roman marble theatre mask from around the third century AD which once belonged to the politician and socialite Sir Philip Sassoon, and an enormous multibreasted torso of the Great Mother Goddess Artemis from Ephesus which dates from the first century AD.

Collections The Menil's collection comprises over 17,000 pieces, ranging from ancient to contemporary art, which encompasses paintings, sculptures, decorative art objects, prints, drawings, art books, and photographs.

Much of what we know about ancient Greek and Roman culture comes from the objects, art, and architecture they left behind.

From ancient times to the present day, theological traditions have reflected on idolatry and questioned the transcendence, significance, and power of objects.