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Visiting the Museum/The Work of Arts

By Pete24

  • Painted by fifth grader

    Painted by fifth grader
    This art work was painted by fifth grader at summer camp. ("Carlos Collection of Ancient Art")

  • Doorway to an Enlightened World

    Doorway to an Enlightened World
    In Doorway to an Enlightened World visitors to the Carlos Museum will encounter compelling works of tibetan buddhist art. not displayed as individula, unconnected pieces but represented in their proper sacred context, regarded a "Doorway" into a higher world. ("Ester R. Portnow Collection of Asian Art, a gift of the Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation")

  • Larnax (Bath-tub)

    Larnax (Bath-tub)
    Late Minoan III. Mid-14th BC
    Ceramic
    The earliest known in the West, have been found at Bronze Age palaces such sd knossos (portable) and pylos (built in). The Linear B tablets from pylos also give us the ancient name wo-te-re-jo. The decoration outside is probably a stylised version of octopus tentacles, which , together with the fish inside (bream) are obvious choices for aquatic context,
    ("Carlos Collection of Ancient Art")

  • Mediterranean Sea

    Mediterranean Sea
    This a map of the Mediterranean sea and all the place travel ("Carlos Collection of fine Art")

  • The Greek Theater

    The Greek Theater
    Theater, Epidaurus, Early 3rd Century BCE
    Epidaurus The youngest of the three playwrights, Euripides (CA 480-406 BCE), writing during the peloponnesian Wars. ("Carlos Collection of fine Art")

  • Tomb Relief of Nykateti

    Tomb Relief of Nykateti
    Egypt Dynasties 2300-2170 BC
    This commanding relief sculpture would have originally stood in the doorwaay to a tomb chapel. It depicts the tomb owner identified by the hieroglyphic, overseer of the palacephysicians and scribe of the magicians.
    ("Carlos Collection of fine Art")

  • VASES

    VASES
    These show a theater of burlesques and slapstick that relied heavily on visual gags. The works of Aristophanes (ca 445-388 BCE) was the only comedies to have survived, and only 11 of his 44 plays have come down to us.
    ("From Humanities book")

  • Coffin and Coffin Board of Tanakhtnettahat

    Coffin and Coffin Board of Tanakhtnettahat
    Egypt Dynasty 21, 1075-945 BC
    Wood, Pigment
    This Coffin is one of the most beaufiul in the Lichirie Collection and one of the finest to be found anywhere in the world.
    This Equisite coffin belonged to the Lady Tahat, a chantress in the temple of the god Amun at Karnak.
    ("The Charlotte Lichirie Collection of Egyptian Art")

  • Nested Coffins of Lawttayesheret

    Nested Coffins of Lawttayesheret
    Dynasty 25, ca 760-656 BC
    This set of coffins belonged to a women named lawttayesheret, also called Tayesheret. Lawttayesheret was a great follower of the Divine Adoratrice of Amun, and almost certainly resided in Thebes.
    ("Charlotte Lichirie Collection of Egyptian Art")

  • Stele of Hammurabi, From SUSA

    Stele of Hammurabi, From SUSA
    The Akkadians dominated Mesopotamia for just 150 years, their rule collapsing not long after 2200 BCE. For the next 400 years, variouss city-states thrived locally. No one in Mesopotamia matched the Akkadians' power until the decades of the eighteenth century BCE, when Hammurabi of babylon (r. 1792-1750 BCE) gained control of most of the region. Hammurabi imposed order on Babylon, where laxity and disorder, and if not chaos reigned.
    ("Carlos Collection of fine Art")

  • Cosmic Form of Eighteen-Armed Vishnu

    Cosmic Form of Eighteen-Armed Vishnu
    India. 11th century Sandstone 2001.1.4 Ester R. Portnow Collection of Asian Art, a Gift of the Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd
    Cosmic manifestation shows his supremacy through delicate architectural relief. Dressed in adhoti and surrounded by numerous attendants, he is fully jeweled with arm bands, ankle cuffs.
    ("Ester R. Portnow Collection of Asian Art, a Gift of the Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation")

  • Seated Buddha

    Seated Buddha
    North Central India, Mathura, Kushan Dynasty, 1st century
    Red Sandstone
    Originally from China, the Kushans founded a dynasty that dominated a large expanse from southern Russia through Afghanistan, Pakistan, northern India and Bangladesh king. ("Ester R. Portnow Collection of Asian Art, a gift of the Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation")

  • Durga Battling the Buffalo Demon

    Durga Battling the Buffalo Demon
    India, Rajasthan. ca AD 900
    Sandstone
    this extraodinary stone relief depicts a serene and powerful goddess overcoming Mahisha, the buffalo-demon of illusion. As the myth tells us, Mahisha had defeated all the gods. ("Ester R. Portnow Collection of Asian Art, a gift of the Nathan Rubin-Ida Ladd Family Foundation")

  • Calyx-Krater

    Calyx-Krater
    Greek, Attic, Attributed to the dinos painter, ca. 430 BC
    A later verison of the story told that Aktaion was killed because he happened upon Artemis while bathing, and saw her naked. ("Carlos collection of Ancient Art")

  • Relief of a Queen or Goddess

    Relief of a Queen or Goddess
    Ptolemaic period, 305-30 BC
    The Vulture headdress became an attributw of royal woment in the old Kingdom, originally linking the queen with Nekhbet, the tutelary goddess of upper Egypt.
    ("Gift of Dr. and Mrs. L Franklyn Elliott")