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Proto-Elamites: Master Sculptors of Animals in Antiquity
Proto-Elamite Reclining Gilded Silver Mountain Goat, 3100-2900 BCE, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, 7 cm length (image public domain) By Patrick Hunt – How...
Renaissance Globalization
Domenico Ghirlandaio, Madonna and Child Enthroned with Saints, 1483, Uffizi Gallery, Florence (image pubic domain) By Andrea M. Gáldy – It’s the Globalisation...
Early Byzantine Great Palace Mosaics, Istanbul
Eagle and Snake, Imperial Palace Mosaic Museum, Istanbul, circa 6th c. (image in common domain) By Patrick Hunt – Courtesy of the Nikia and Hippodrome revolts...
A Collection to Make (And Break?) A King
A. Van Dyck, Charles I (triple portrait) Royal Collection ca. 1635 By Andrea M. Gáldy – Charles I, the second Stuart...
Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
Hermitage – Winter Palace, St. Petersburg (photo P. Hunt 2017) By P. F. Sommerfeldt – It has been variously said that even if you stood in front of...
A Case of Rebirth and Modernity: the Cinquecento in Florence
Detail of Bronzino, Deposition (Besançon, 1543) By Andrea M. Gáldy – While many people still consider the Renaissance to have been a movement created largely...
Lausanne Cathedral’s Marvelous Bestiary: When a Dog is Not a Dog
Lausanne Cathedral Stained Glass Zodiac: Capricorn (Photo P. Hunt, 2016) By Alice Devine Wilson – “Of fowls after their kind and of cattle after their...
Tang Dynasty Terracotta Lady Tomb Figurines: Endearing Subtle Whimsy
Tang Dynasty Terracotta Female Tomb Figurines, 8th c. (image in public domain) By P. F. Sommerfeldt – Tang Dynasty (618-907 CE) ceramics are otherwise deservedly...
When the Past Mattered: The University Collection of Plaster Casts at Munich University
Athena Parthenon model with cast of Athena Parthenios statue, Ludwig Maxmilians University Museum, Munich (image courtesy LMU, 2017) By Andrea Galdy – German...
Thomas Rowlandson: Legacy of a Genius Social Observer in 1800
Fig. 1 Thomas Rowlandson, “Bath Races”, ca 1810, (National Maritime Museum, Greenwich) By Cher Beall – Art in Britain...
