Sentences with phrase «ancient pottery from»

It includes painting and sculpture from Japan, China, and India; Japanese prints, masks, textiles and metalwork; ancient pottery from China, Korea and Vietnam; Korean art and crafts; Islamic art by Muslim artists; an expanding selection of Oceanic art and a variety of African art.

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The method was previously used on human organs as an anatomy study aid for medical students, and has since been adopted to digitally archive artifacts such as ancient pottery and prehistoric skulls so that students and researchers can interact with otherwise rarely handled specimens from museum collections.

You may associate ancient wine with the toga - wearing set, but by the time Romans were quaffing it, the beverage was itself ancient: 7,000 - year - old pottery from sites in Iran's Zagros Mountains tested positive for residues specific to grapes.

The Penn Museum has a large collection of artifacts from Ur, because in 1922, British archaeologist Leonard Woolley led a famous series of excavations there, a joint operation between the British Museum and Penn, bringing back precious stones and pottery, and uncovering an ancient human sacrifice.

Dogs that lived in the ancient Mayan city Seibal resembled those depicted in pottery from Colima state in Mexico.

Ranging from prehistoric relics to remnants of the Greco - Roman period, the collection includes samples of ancient pottery and sculpture, statues from the Temple of Zeus, and coins from Agrigento's long - forgotten history.

When we were in the Riviera Mayanear Coba, we saw tons of assembly line art, but wound up buying from a man who taught local children and tourists the ancient craft of Mayan pottery and distributed profits equally among families in his village.

Enjoy a peaceful canoe trip into the amazing Barton Creek Cave where you will witness beautiful crystal cave formations, skulls, bones and pottery relics from ancient Mayans.

As you reach «The Cathedral», named because of its scale, magnificence and sacredness, you can see giant stalactites hanging from the ceiling, and ancient Maya artifacts including pottery and human bones littering the cave floor.

The tech tree is staggeringly huge (although limited in this demo), ranging from basic ancient technologies like reading and pottery to nuclear weapons and «future tech.»

The PlayStation 4 additions are Transistor; the acclaimed sci - fi RPG from the creators of Bastion; and Apotheon; a 2D action game styled after ancient Greek mythology and pottery.

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.

From prehistoric pottery to ancient Greek amphoras, from the rise of porcelain in Asia and Europe to the Arts and Crafts movement in England and the U.S., ceramic traditions have long fascinated artists and infiltrated their practiFrom prehistoric pottery to ancient Greek amphoras, from the rise of porcelain in Asia and Europe to the Arts and Crafts movement in England and the U.S., ceramic traditions have long fascinated artists and infiltrated their practifrom the rise of porcelain in Asia and Europe to the Arts and Crafts movement in England and the U.S., ceramic traditions have long fascinated artists and infiltrated their practices.

Mangold's use of subtle color and curvilinear abstract forms are associated with Minimalism but also recall other sources from Ancient Greek pottery to Renaissance frescoes.

Clearly the textiles, pottery, ruins, and ancient carvings Lewczuk discovers far from home fill her head with rich ideas and visual information.

With nearly 18,000 works in the collection, the Blanton showcases art from across the ages, from ancient greek pottery to abstract expressionism.

Working in a range of mediums from sculpture and installation to video and performance, Leigh's investigations of female subjectivity and ethnography, are informed by her training in American ceramics and interest in ancient African pottery.

12 Oct: Ceramics at Sotheby's A major auction of ancient ceramics from Persia, Iraq and Central Asia (including part of Harvey Plotnick's huge collection of medieval Islamic pottery) was held last week at Sotheby's, London, with disappointing results.

The National Archeological Museum (Athens) Has the world's richest collection of artifacts and antiquities from Ancient Greece, including prehistoric Cycladic, and Mycenaean items, ancient Greek sculpture (statues and reliefs) and pottery, the Stathatos Collection, the Vlastos Collection, and an assembly of Egyptian artAncient Greece, including prehistoric Cycladic, and Mycenaean items, ancient Greek sculpture (statues and reliefs) and pottery, the Stathatos Collection, the Vlastos Collection, and an assembly of Egyptian artancient Greek sculpture (statues and reliefs) and pottery, the Stathatos Collection, the Vlastos Collection, and an assembly of Egyptian artifacts.

the porcelain pieces positioned throughout the installation space have been formed by ai weiwei by hand — each modern concept is actualized from ancient pottery techniques, resulting in a seamless critique of the financial value placed on chinese porcelain.

A selection of materials in we float above to spit and sing includes: wood, paint, stainless steel, wigs, prosthetic silicon, makeup, bristle cone pine wood, brass, marine resin, medical arm cast, cell phones, jewelry, clothing, dried Himalayan wild flowers, ancient pottery shards, SeaMarker rescue dye, gem stones, mineral fragments, global meteorite fragments, fabric swatches from ethnographic blankets, coral, vitamins, Adderall and morphine.

In his sculptural works he often uses reclaimed materials — ancient pottery and wood from destroyed temples — in a conceptual gesture that connects tradition with contemporary social concerns.