Image title: Sash Medium: Camelid hair Date: 10th–15th century Source: The Met Collection “ Take things as they are. Punch when you have to punch. Kick when you have to kick. ” — Bruce Lee When Weavings Speak: The Visual Rhetoric of Andean Khipus as Proto-Art Introduction: The Read more…
Image title: The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood Date: ca. 1436–38 Source: The Met Collection “ Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. ” — Martin Luther King Jr. Ultraviolet Truths: What Read more…
Image title: Holy Face Medium: Tempera and gold leaf on parchment that has been trimmed and laid down on thin walnut Date: ca. 1485–90 Source: The Met Collection “ ” — “Wrong” Proportions: Disability Representation in Medieval Manuscripts Introduction: A Reframed Perspective on Medieval Disability In the illuminated Read more…
Image title: Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale Medium: Fresco Date: ca. 50–40 BCE Source: The Met Collection “ Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them. ” — Sophocles Frescoes Read more…
Image title: The Adoration of the Magi Medium: Distemper on canvas Date: 1472–74 Source: The Met Collection “ Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant. ” — Isocrates Fossils or Fakes? When Art Historians Play Archaeologist Introduction: Where Art Meets Read more…
Image title: The Horse Fair Medium: Oil on canvas Date: 1852–55 Source: The Met Collection “ Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they’ve got a second. ” — William James The Sculptor’s Silence: Why Ancient Greek Sculptures Never Open Their Mouths Read more…
Image title: The Crucifixion; The Last Judgment Medium: Oil on canvas, transferred from wood Date: ca. 1436–38 Source: The Met Collection “ There never was a good knife made of bad steel. ” — Benjamin Franklin Cold Steel & Soft Flesh: The Feminine Body in Soviet Monumental Sculpture Read more…
Image title: Hermann von Wedigh III (died 1560) Medium: Oil and gold on oak Date: 1532 Source: The Met Collection “ The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. ” — Abraham Lincoln Draped Universes: The Philosophy Behind Fabric Read more…
Image title: Bronze figure of a boy in Eastern dress Medium: Bronze Date: mid-late 1st century BCE Source: The Met Collection “ In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is Read more…
Image title: Monumental vase Medium: Russian malachite, composite filling material; gilt-bronze mounts; bronze pedestal Date: lapidary work: early 19th century; pedestal and mounts: 1819 Source: The Met Collection “ The art challenges the technology, and the technology inspires the art. ” — John Lasseter The Sculpted State: Monumental Art Read more…