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Palace Façade in Assyrian Relief
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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…

Places:

Dur-Sharrukin, Assyria (Khorsabad, Iraq)

Date:

Iron Age II, 8th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Cities, Monarchy

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture
Line drawing of columned facade.
Balance Scale
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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…

Places:

Land of Israel (Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIC, 7th–6th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Economic life

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture
Reconstructed scale with two ancient bronze pans suspended from central beam of clear modern material. The left pan holds a balance weight and the right holds a piece of silver.
Ivory-inlaid Chair
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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…

Places:

Salamis, Cyprus (Ammochostos, Cyprus)

Date:

Iron Age II, 8th–7th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Animals

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Decorative Arts, Household Objects
Armed chair decorated with ivory inlay including elaborate carving on arms.
Volute Capital from Ramat Rahel Palace
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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…

Places:

Ramat Rahel, Land of Israel (Ramat Rahel, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age II, Late 8th–Early 7th Century BCE

Subjects:

Archaeology, Cities, Monarchy, Fertility

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Decorative Arts
Limestone capital with triangles and carved palmette design.
Model Shrine from Tirzah
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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…

Places:

Tirzah, Land of Israel (Tell el-Far'ah, West Bank)

Date:

Iron Age IIA, 10th–9th Century BCE

Subjects:

Temple, Ritual object, Archaeology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Architecture, Ritual Objects
Limestone triple-recessed door frame with row of protruding roof beams.
Tombs from Ketef Hinnom Cemetery
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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…

Places:

Ketef Hinnom, Land of Israel (Jerusalem, Israel)

Date:

Iron Age IIC–Early Persian Period, 7th–5th Century BCE

Subjects:

Burial, Archaeology, Cemetery, Jerusalem, Tombs

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Monuments, Gravestones & Tombs, Architecture
Drawing of reconstructed tomb cutout of a chamber built along hills.
Rythme Coloré
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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…

Contributor:

Sonia Delaunay

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1958

Subjects:

Painting, Modernism, Aesthetics

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Painting
Abstract painting featuring simple circles, half-circles, squares, and triangles.
Leonard Bernstein
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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…

Contributor:

Al Hirschfeld

Places:

United States of America

Date:

1958

Subjects:

Comics, Print, Music, Portrait

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art, Print & Book Culture
Cartoon drawing of man with three heads and many hands reaching in different directions, the hands in center typing on a large typewriter, a hand to the left holding a conducting baton, another hand holding a phone, and a hand to the right holding a pen.
Message Number 7B, Ecclesiastes VII: 6
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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…

Contributor:

Mathias Goeritz

Places:

Mexico

Date:

1959

Subjects:

Modernism, Aesthetics, Theology

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Sculpture
Sculpture of nails and iron on a rectangular wood panel.
Astérix le Gaulois, no. 1, cover
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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…

Contributor:

René Goscinny

Places:

Paris, France

Date:

1959

Subjects:

Comics, Print, Humor

Categories:

Visual & Material Culture, Cartooning & Graphic Art
Comic strip featuring a title and heading across the top in French, and eight panels of comics below. The comics portray warriors, a man against several opponents, two warriors, a stylized map of France, a map of enemy tents, a warrior on a chair interrupted by a boy, two warriors talking, and four warriors talking while hiding behind a tree.

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