Sentences with phrase «collection of jade»

In downtown San Jose, the Jade Museum presents pre-Columbian history through dramatic exhibits of what is perhaps the world's largest collection of jade jewelry and artefacts.

As the name itself suggests, Jade room houses a rare collection of jades and valuable items collected from all around the world.

Not exact matches

With Eto'o and Sneijder jaded upfront, Inter will be looking for their Serbian to pull one more out of his brilliant collection of goals.

But it is the fact that the jade megajewel was found not buried with an ancient ruler but with a collection of sacrificial offerings that has historians excited.

The theme of miniaturization, as a technique for the compression of vast time and space, returned when he showed an image of tomb jade in his collection that he has arranged into a «broken millimeter,» referencing Walter de Maria's Broken Kilometer of 1979.

Harvard Art Museum This encompasses three centres: the Fogg Art Museum, concentrating on Western Art of the Middle Ages to the present (notably early Renaissance, British pre-Raphaelite, 19th - century Impressionist and post-Impressionist works, and an important collection of Picasso's works); the Busch - Reisinger Museum, specializing in fine art from Central and Northern Europe (notably 20th century German Expressionist painters); and the Arthur M. Sackler Museum, which focuses on ancient, Islamic and Asian art (notably archaic Chinese jades and Japanese surimono, as well as drawings, paintings and calligraphy from Iran, India, and Turkey, along with Greek and Roman sculpture).

Lovely and serene, the two - level museum showcases the private collection of founders Trammell and Margaret Crow, enabling visitors to wander amongst ancient Chinese jades, Buddhist sculpture, Japanese screen paintings, delicate fans and intricately carved Indian architecture.

Also located in the district is the Crow Collection of Asian Art, featuring one of the most exquisite jade collections in the United States.

This gallery focuses on one aspect of the Nasher Museum's vast collection — the ceramics, metalwork, jade and textiles from Mesoamerica — and highlights a wide array of Maya cylinder vases.

Avant - garde stage designer Robert Wilson re-creates the opulence and drama of the Qing court (1644 — 1912) in this special installation of the museum's impressive collection of rare jades, lacquer works, paintings, and costumes.

Indifferent Matter: From Object to Sculpture pairs four key twentieth - century sculptures by Felix Gonzalez - Torres (1957 - 96), Hans Haacke (b. 1936), Andy Warhol (1928 - 87) and Robert Smithson (1938 - 73) with a series of ancient objects including Neolithic jades, a yet to be named mineral, fragments of Roman sculpture and a collection of eoliths.

The Santa Barbara Art Museum's collection of the arts of Asia, Europe, and the Americas includes paintings, sculpture, prints, drawings, photographs, ceramics, glass, jades, bronzes, lacquer, and textiles.

Minneapolis Institute of Arts (MIA) Permanent collection includes some 80,000 items, featuring Chinese architecture, jades, bronzes, and pottery, art from Africa, Oceania and the Americas, plus the Purcell - Cutts House of Prairie School architecture.