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Palace façade in Assyrian relief, Khorsabad. This illustration is based on an Assyrian relief from the palace of Sargon II (reigned 722–705 BCE), Khorsabad. The relief shows pillars topped by volute…
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Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)
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Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE
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Balance scale (reconstruction). Pans from Iron Age II (ca. 980-586 BCE). Balance scales were likely made mostly of wood. No complete example has survived, but they are depicted in ancient Near Eastern…
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Land of Israel (Israel)
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Iron Age IIC, 7th–6th Century BCE
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Ivory-inlaid chair, Salamis, Cyprus, 8th or 7th century BCE. Among the most beautiful items surviving from Israel and neighboring countries are the ivory carvings used for decorating furniture, among…
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Salamis, Cyprus (Ammochostos, Cyprus)
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Iron Age II, 8th–7th Century BCE
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The palm and the palmette are common iconographic elements in ancient Near Eastern art, appearing, for example, in ivory decoration (see Ivory and Bone Carvings and Engraved Seashells) and in Assyrian…
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Ramat Rahel, Land of Israel (Ramat Rahel, Israel)
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Iron Age II, Late 8th–Early 7th Century BCE
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This terra-cotta model of a shrine from Tirzah stands 8 inches (21 cm) tall. The façade has an entrance with a grooved threshold flanked by fluted pilasters, with inward-curling volute capitals topped…
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Tirzah, Land of Israel (Tell el-Far'ah, West Bank)
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Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE
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A group of elaborate tombs was found on the slopes of Jerusalem’s Hinnom Valley, including a cluster at Ketef Hinnom behind what is now the Menachem Begin Center. This is an artist's reconstruction of…
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Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)
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Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE
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Rythme coloré (Colored Rhythm) embodies the concept of Simultanisme, a style developed by Sonia Delaunay and her husband Robert Delaunay in the 1910s. Simultanisme (also known as Orphism) was based on…
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Sonia Delaunay
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Paris, France
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1958
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Al Hirschfeld was most famous for his caricatures of actors, musicians, and other figures from the arts and public life. He himself preferred to be known as a “characterist.” After the birth of his…
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Al Hirschfeld
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1958
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Mathias Goeritz began his Messages series in the late 1950s and continued adding to it until the end of his career. He set out to create a modernist religious art. Works in the series often referred…
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Mathias Goeritz
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1959
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Astérix le Gaulois is set in the first century BCE, during Rome’s conquest of Gaul (France), focusing on the inhabitants of a small village who, given superhuman strength by a magic potion prepared by…
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René Goscinny
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Paris, France
Date:
1959