Collections: Items Tagged "history"

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On View: Dance Headdress (Ci-wara Kun)

These headdresses, called ci-wara, represent antelopes, important animals in Bamana philosophy. The antelope’s power is a metaphor for...

Hiroshige's One Hundred Famous Views of Edo

Hiroshige's 118 woodblock landscape and genre scenes of mid-nineteenth-century Tokyo, is one of the greatest achievements of Japanese art.

    On View: Fragment from a Relief of a Worshipper

    Both of these figures wear priestly attire. One has his hands raised In a gesture of prayer or adoration, while the other—to judge fro...

     

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    Found 40 Items Tagged "history"

    Napoleon Leading the Army over the AlpsLuna Park and Surf Avenue, Coney IslandThe Dinner PartyEmblems of the Civil WarEntertainment of the Boston Rifle Rangers by the Portland Rifle Club in Portland Harbor, August 12, 1829Joseph of Arimathaea Seeks Pilate to Beg Permission to Remove the Body of Jesus (Joseph dArimathie va trouver Pilate pour lui demander la permission denlever le corps de Jésus)Civil War SceneFoot WashingNata Ragini, page from a dispersed Ragamala seriesPortrait of Raja Ajmer Chand of Kahlur
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