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50 Cards in this Set
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Nigerian, 16th century
Portrait of Queen Idia shows Royalty |
Pendat Mask
Rockefeller |
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Mali or Dogon people
Man-Quiver/ Woman-baby 1977 |
Seated Couple
Lester Wunderman |
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19th - 20th century
Tip-Medicine shows strength, power, and Royalty |
Helmet Mask
Sierra Leon |
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Gabon or Congo
appears in ceremony-Beetecult represent forest spirits/children lead to dancing and creating 19th-20th century |
Face Mask
Rockefeller |
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Torres Strait (Mabuiag Island)
18th century constructed fromTurtle shell |
Mask
Nelson Rockefeller |
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Precolumbian
Mexican or Guatemalan people 6th Century Belt-Strength and Royal Status Royal Pose holding Medallion |
Seated Figure
Rockefeller |
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American Wing
Drygood Store in front of Stand up desk |
Elijah Boardman
Ralph Earl |
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Show realness
Textures and subdued colors |
Sill Life Violin Music
William Micheal Harnett |
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Natural form
willowy flowers, leafy designs embedded in glass, and peacock feathers in gleaming colors |
Blown Glass
Louis Comfort Tiffany |
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demonstrate heroic struggle between human and their enviroment
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On Side the Bar
WinslowHomer |
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Rich Vibrant flesh tones set off by green drapery and greenly expressive brushwork contrast w/ effective simple composition of the subject
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George Washington
Gilbert Stewart |
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show Intense love of nature and light, isolated figures and a single white cell under the threatening cloud produce eerie impression of being alone in a time of approaching danger
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Coming Storm
Martin Johnson Heade |
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1895
the thrust of storm is concentrated in single heaving wave. sharp contrast between light and dark heighten the drama, fear generated by pool of undertow toward the lower right corner |
North Easter
Winslow Homer |
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1790
shows all over cracklin or alligatoring, the result of an improper combination of material |
Lady w/ Pets
Rufus Hathaway |
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silhouette of pet fox, seem to cut into the water
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Fir Traders Assending the Missouri
George Caleb Bingham |
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Shoshone Indians bathed in soft morning light
message: "we should go there" symbol of Manifest Destiny even if we have to go through the indians |
Rocky Mountain Landers Peak
Albert Bierstadt |
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1871
Passion for sport shown in calm fashion |
Schmitt In a Single Skull or
The Champion Single Skull Thomas Eakins |
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Right arm outstretched she leads the Civil War mounted forward
Left hand hold a laure branch/ symbol of honor |
Victory
Agusta St Gaudens |
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Captures breathless moment decent by Iroquois with his bear traps, ax, bedroll and riffle
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The Mountain Man
Fredrick Remmington |
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19th Century
used natural approach, textural detail of bronze surface. Made enlarged version placed in Central Park. |
The Indian Hunter
John Quincy Adams Ward |
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Stained glass windows panels and lampshades
Favrile" glass, a Tiffany innovation. |
Autumn Landscape
Louis Tiffany (son of Charles Tiffany) |
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18th Century
Hannah fayerweather Winthrop Professor at Harvard University Renders varying textures of her muslin ap, silk dress,a nd lace cuffs Oil on Canvas |
Mrs. John Winthrop
Jon Singleton copley |
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1894
Gilded bronze 1891 Female nude designed as a weathervane for the tower of Stanford white's Madison Square Garden (Greek God) |
Diana
Augustus Saint-Gaudens |
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Studies for Libyan Sibyl
Red Chalk Appears in Sistine Chapel |
Michelangelo Buonarroti
Italian |
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Most monumental and powerfully sculptured single figure among dramatic etchings
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The Giant
Francisco Goya Spanish |
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recklessly drove Appollo's chariot, tumbles head first toward view with hands and arms outstretched..
Moral: those with rash desires come to a bad end |
Phaeton
Hendrick Goltzius Dutch |
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Pen and brown ink, brown wash on tan paper
transforms cottage and captures the movement in trees as wind blows across lowlands. spectator is drawn to firmly rooted dwelling as it recedes in spacce, cast in shadow. Mystery. |
A Cottage Among Trees
Rembrandt Dutch |
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Pen and brown ink, brown wash, heightened with white
persuaded wnwillling father Apollo, Sun God to allow him to drive chriot across the sky. Atlas seen holding the world on his shoulders |
The Fall of Paeton
Hendrick Goltzius Dutch |
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Pen and brow ink over preliminary sketches in metalpoint on pink prepared paper
Viking kneeling before Christ Child; Virgin kneels facing spectator, right hand raised in praise over infant Christ |
Studies for a Nativity
Leonardo Da Binci Italian |
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coffin displays a multiplicity of decorative panels
has figure of goddess on head end; false door drawn toward the Old Kingdom |
Coffin of Khnumnakht
Dynasty 12 |
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Plastered and painted wood
1000 BC burying in family tombs, less detail given to wall decorations |
Outer Coffin of Henettawy
Thebes Dynasty 21 |
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1954 BC
painted limestone God of the Afterlife Senwosret 1 dedicated to Osiris I give.. "bread and beer, cattle and fowl, offerings and food for Eye is a symbol of power Hovas- head of falcon |
Stela of Montuwoser
Dynasty 12 |
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1929
Thutmosis III stepmother She was crowned King with full pharaonic powers wore kilt and headdress and bare torso |
Queen Hatshepsut
Roger Fund |
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1990 BC
1920 expedition led by Metropolitan |
Model of a Boat
Roger Fund and Edward S Harkness |
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Chancellor painted wooden replicas, all executed in minature, but with accuracy and attention to detail. Found in almost perfect preservation. no single find contributed to our knowledge of the estates and other possessions of a wealthy Egyptian of Middle Kingdom or provided us with rich material for general study of daily life
shows brown skin, everyone wore wigs over shaved heads |
Model of a Boat
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1956
Example of New Kingdom; emphasizes beautiful youth in a pharaoh who ruled egypt shows strength and character |
AmenHotep III
Roger Fund |
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Ptolemaic Period 304-30 BC
Bronze Sacred animal of Baster, a goddess of Bubastis Served as a coffin for mummified cats |
Coffin for a Sacred Cat
Harris Brisbane dick Fund |
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2350 BC
Habitations for the ka or spirit of deceased Embrace each other; suggest she was the owner of the tomb Husband, a steward and keeper |
Memisabu and His Wife
Roger Fund |
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Early Roman Period
15 BC given to US in 1965 in recognition of the American contribution to International campaign to save ancient Nubian monuments; built by Roman emperor Agustus and honors the goddess Isis and two deified sons; simplified version of standard Egyptian cult temple.Banks of the Nile river surrounded by water errected in Nubia |
Temple of Dendur
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example of post-Amarna art found in the tomb of his fatherKneels holding an elaborately carved shrine containing a smoll figure of the god Osiris. Necklace beads decoration given for distinguished service. Eyes and eyebrows were inlaid with semipreious stones; gouged out by an ancient chief
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Statue of Yuny
Asyut Roger Fund |
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Dynasty
Head belongs to a composite statue; yellow stone indicate female; scale and quality imply she was a queen (Tiye) |
Fragmentary Head of a Queen
Edward S Harkness Gift, 1926 |
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dipiction of City of Toledo
pastoral forground with Tagus River and alcantara bridge serve as a foil for the haunting vision of Alcazar na cathedral towers against stormy sky |
View of Toledo
El Greco |
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1953
dressed in robes of Renaissance humanist, hand rested on bust of Homer and werars chain bearing a medallion of Alexander the Great (pupil of Aristotle) |
Aristotle w/ bust of Homer
Rembrandt van Rijn |
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1660
54 years old Still life painting of self; such passion and movement in his eyes |
Self Portrait
Rembrandt van Rijn |
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1445
dipicts Adam and Eve being moved from the Ethan garden |
The Creation and Expulsion of Adam and Eve
Giovanni di Paolo |
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1480
Venetian Christ mother Renaissance time of change Resurrect-come back Madonna align w/ vertical axis; the rust colored cloth of honor and position of the child introduce asymmetry w/ view of Alps to balance the composition and underscore mood; quince held by Child; symbol of Resurrection |
Madonna and Child
Giovanni Bellini |
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1425-30
Netherlandish Wings of a triptych or diptych Alpine landscape slender body of Christ emotions of various figures; raised lettering forms quotations from Isaiah on the Crucifixion, Revelations and Deuteronomy |
The Crucifixion an the Last Judgement
Jan Van Eyck |
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1648
Strong, depth around, confident a Sevillan of Moorish descent "truth" |
Juan De Pareja
Diego Veldzuez |
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1543
Strength and power Turn to stone Snakes in hair Turned to stone when shield placed in front of her |
Parade Helmet
Filippo Negroli |
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Marie Berna, Sad when husband died; wanted a painting to help her escape; equal to her sorrow
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Island of the Dead
Arnold Bocklin Swiss |
