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Ancient and Classical Civilizations

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David M Choberka
Last Updated
February 7, 2020 4:06 p.m.

22 Items in this Learning Collection
Arts from Persia and Iran
This Persian miniature is attributed to the Shiraz and Timurid schools, ca. 1460. The painting is done in ink, opaque watercolor and gold leaf on paper. The scene, <em>The Death of Dara</em>, is part of the Shahnama of Firdausi, the Persian book of kings. 
Resource with 165 media
Art of the Mughal Empire
The painting is part of a manuscript page. The painting occupies the left side of the page while the text occupies the panel on the right. The painting features Devi in the foreground who receives a demon warrior. Devi holds a white trident in one of her four arms while another arm holds a cup. She sits in front of a domed white marble structure, facing the demon warrior, who has a sword and bow and arrow.
Resource with 99 media
Art of the Ramayana

Resource with 16 media
Arts of Mexico

Resource with 158 media
Before 1492

Resource with 484 media
Egypt in 19th Century Photography
Egyptian temple decorated with carved motifs seen from a slight oblique angle.
Resource with 22 media
Greco-Roman Mythology

Resource with 124 media
Greek Cultural Influence

Resource with 142 media
Hebrew Bible / Old Testament

Resource with 70 media
Images of Jerusalem

Resource with 22 media
Indigenous North America Arts
Beige bowl, wider at the top, with a rim formed in a braided pattern.
Resource with 104 media
Introduction to Manuscripts and Early Print
A page from a Qur'an manuscript.
Resource with 143 media
Italy in 19th-Century Photography

Resource with 81 media
Medieval Mediterranean
This large bronze faucet features a peacock spigot and a lion-headed spout.
Resource with 29 media
Pre-Columbian Central & South America

Resource with 24 media
Representations and Misrepresentations of Indigenous America

Resource with 65 media
Ruins

Resource with 119 media
Ruins in the Early Modern European Architectural Imagination

Resource with 30 media
Samurai
There is a warrior monk in the middle of the page holding black armor above his head, getting ready to toss it. There are a couple lines of writing above his head and a signature and two seals in the bottom right corner of the hanging scroll.
Resource with 83 media
Translating Homer

Resource with 16 media
Exchange and Influence on Global Trade Routes
This small, flat metal piece has a quartrefoil shape. Two holes in the middle. Flame-like incision all over the piece. Silver is applied around the center hole.

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Porcelain plate with raised brown rim. The inner circle uses blue underglaze painting to illustrate a jar with a lid that reads in kanji "fragrant orchid"
A view of steerage passengers gathered on two decks of a steamship.&nbsp;
A white earthenware box where the cover and the body are almost identical in form, the entire vessel of a short cylindrical from with flat top, with subtle articulation at the shoulder, on a shallow footring.  It is covered in blue, amber, and green glazes applied in a splotchy manner. 
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Stoneware jar with flaring foot and high rounded shoulders on a tapered body. It has an everted, flared foot, and short narrow neck covered with a flat lid with conical knob. The top three-quarters of the jar is covered in an amber-colored glaze. 

Collection with 10 items
Material Culture of Global Medicine
A 14th century Mongol period pharmacy jar from the Sultanabad region. The albarello is a contracted cylinder with a converging neck and has a conventionalized inscription with a stag and gazelle design. Floral designs fill the space while the lower body is fluted. All the decorative patterns were done in low relief. Paste is a light tan "Islamic II", while the glaze is glossy with fine crackle. The object was fired upright. Colors include heavy iridescent patina, gray-green, light grayish-white ground and light purplish gray. The object has been restored. 

Multi-colored ink on paper. Reds and golds make up the primary focus colors and are accented by dark blues. Features five figures, two larger figures on the top half of the page and three smaller figures on the bottom. Scene of worship.
Multi-colored ink on paper. Prominent reds, yellows and blues. Six figures, three smaller (clothed), three larger (nude or semi-nude). Scene of worship.
A woman sits on the edge of a bed in which a figure lays. A child stands next to the woman. A chair with a bag on it sits in the right bottom corner.


Hollowed cone-shaped vessel with a thinly tapered, extended tip. Vessel is designed with various geometric shapes including repetitive diamond and square patterns.
Collection with 11 items
Architecture and Buildings

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16 Items in this Learning Collection
Albert Kahn's European Travel Drawings

Resource with 139 media
Architecture in Photography 1900-1948
View of an unfurnished room, whose walls are decorated with pilasters.
Resource with 40 media
Architecture in photography 1949-1989
Photograph of a white painted post holding up the tin roof of a porch.
Resource with 72 media
Christian Churches
A group of people outside of a church praying because there is no more room inside. The streets are covered with parked cars.
Resource with 195 media
Early Modern European Architectural Designs and Drawings
This small sketch presents a view along a waterway that passes beneath a double-arched bridge. The triangular sail of a small boat is visible just before the bridge, moored to the quai next to some sheds. A tall church with a central steeple rises on the right bank in the foreground, and two other tall buildings punctuate the middle ground and distance. The chimneys and rooflines of humbler dwellings appear on the left bank. Despite the urban setting, only a few figures may be glimpsed, including a man crossing the bridge on horseback.
Resource with 101 media
Early Modern European Architecture and Interior Design

Resource with 212 media
Early Modern Stage Sets

Resource with 8 media
Egypt in 19th Century Photography
Egyptian temple decorated with carved motifs seen from a slight oblique angle.
Resource with 22 media
Italy in 19th-Century Photography

Resource with 81 media
The Modern Metropolis

Resource with 82 media
Religious Buildings
A man attaches wires to a wooden pole in the right foreground; humanoid sculptures adorn a pointed roof and chimney on the left. 
Resource with 219 media
Ruins in the Early Modern European Architectural Imagination

Resource with 30 media
The City in Photography 1900-1948
View of an empty street in front of a men's clothing store.
Resource with 50 media
Empires and Colonialism

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27 Items in this Learning Collection
European Primitivisms
Four male figures face each other, one in a hat on the left and three on the right facing him. The figure in the center has one hand raised to his chest. The two men on the right are looking at the man in the center.
Resource with 53 media
British Empire
Façade of an Egyptian temple structure in a state of partial ruin.
Resource with 75 media
American Orientalist art at the turn of the 20th century

Resource with 5 media
Art for Postcolonial Critique

Resource with 46 media
Art of the Mughal Empire
The painting is part of a manuscript page. The painting occupies the left side of the page while the text occupies the panel on the right. The painting features Devi in the foreground who receives a demon warrior. Devi holds a white trident in one of her four arms while another arm holds a cup. She sits in front of a domed white marble structure, facing the demon warrior, who has a sword and bow and arrow.
Resource with 99 media
Before 1492

Resource with 484 media
Politics, and Social Reform in the US, 1901-1950

Resource with 234 media
Cowboys and Cowboy Art
A black and white phot of two men dressed in a Western style with a tent. One man is standing in front of the tent, while the other is sitting on a rolled up canvs in front of the tent.
Resource with 41 media
Early Modern Atlantic World
Goldweights are small objects cast from brass used to weigh out quantities of gold and gold dust. They are cast using a lost-wax casting technique, wherein wax is sculpted into the desired shape and a mold is pressed around the wax model. Then, the mold is heated and the wax drained out, leaving a void in the shape of the original wax model. Liquid brass is poured into the mold and allowed to set before the caster cracks the mold open and retrieves the finished goldweight.
Resource with 35 media
Egypt in 19th Century Photography
Egyptian temple decorated with carved motifs seen from a slight oblique angle.
Resource with 22 media
Enrique Chagoya: Flipping Europe on its Head

Resource with 4 media
Italy in 19th-Century Photography

Resource with 81 media
Japan Pax Tokugawa 1600-1868
This woodwork depicts Ebisu, the god of prosperity and especially associated with fishermen. Here he carries a large sea bream or red snapper symbolizing good fortune.
Resource with 490 media
Latin American Revolutions and Civil Wars

Resource with 15 media
Manchu, Qing Dynasty
A round porcelain vase-shaped snuff bottle with blue underglaze. Painted on the snuff bottle is a design of a Manchu bannermen on horses in a landscape. &nbsp;
Resource with 86 media
Manifest Destiny and the American West

Resource with 76 media
Medieval Mediterranean
This large bronze faucet features a peacock spigot and a lion-headed spout.
Resource with 29 media
Era of the Mexican Revolution and the Mexican Muralist Movement

Resource with 83 media
Orientalism

Resource with 57 media
Postcolonial Art

Resource with 31 media
Postcolonial Studies


Four male figures face each other, one in a hat on the left and three on the right facing him. The figure in the center has one hand raised to his chest. The two men on the right are looking at the man in the center.







Collection with 10 items
Pre-Columbian Central & South America

Resource with 24 media
Religious Encounters in the New World

Resource with 30 media
Representations and Misrepresentations of Indigenous America

Resource with 65 media
Samurai
There is a warrior monk in the middle of the page holding black armor above his head, getting ready to toss it. There are a couple lines of writing above his head and a signature and two seals in the bottom right corner of the hanging scroll.
Resource with 83 media
Victorian Studies

Resource with 77 media
Human Rights

Resource with 152 media

Egypt in 19th Century Photography

Egyptian temple decorated with carved motifs seen from a slight oblique angle.
Antonio Beato
Temple of Horus at Edfu
albumen print on paper
8 1/16 in x 10 3/8 in (20.48 cm x 26.35 cm);16 in x 20 in (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm);11 7/16 in x 15 in (29.05 cm x 38.1 cm)
Gift of W. Howard and Margaret Bond
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Overarching view of the interior courtyard of an Egyptian temple.
Antonio Beato
Excavation at Medinet, Haboo, Thebes
albumen print on paper
11 7/16 in x 15 in (29.05 cm x 38.1 cm);8 1/4 in x 10 1/4 in (20.96 cm x 26.04 cm);11 9/16 in x 15 1/16 in (29.37 cm x 38.26 cm);16 in x 20 in (40.64 cm x 50.8 cm)
Gift of Howard and Margaret Bond
View Object Record
View of an Egyptian temple and palm trees seen from below.
Antonio Beato
Pharoah's Bed, Island of Philae
albumen print on paper
11 7/16 in x 14 15/16 in (29.05 cm x 37.94 cm);18 1/16 in x 22 1/16 in (45.88 cm x 56.04 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Bond
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Egyptian temple seen from a slightly oblique angle.
Antonio Beato
Temple of Dendera
albumen print on paper
7 7/8 in x 10 1/4 in (20 cm x 26.04 cm);10 1/4 in x 7 7/8 in (26.04 cm x 20 cm)
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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This photograph depicts a view of some ancient stone ruins. Two columns stand in the center of the photograph, each bearing relief designs and carved hieroglyphics.
Felice Beato
Karnak, Les Deux Stelles Pilliers
albumen print on paper
7 15/16 in x 10 1/4 in (20.1 cm x 26 cm)
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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Façade of an Egyptian temple structure in a state of partial ruin.
Antonio Beato
Temple of Kalabsha
albumen print on paper
10 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in (26.67 cm x 20.64 cm);19 5/16 in x 14 5/16 in (49.05 cm x 36.35 cm);10 1/2 in x 8 1/8 in (26.67 cm x 20.64 cm);15 1/16 in x 11 1/2 in (38.26 cm x 29.21 cm)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. W. Howard Bond
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This photograph depicts a view of a palm tree-lined path in a city park. Two men stand on the path and face the camera.
Antonio Beato
Luxor
albumen print on paper
7 3/4 in x 10 5/16 in (19.7 cm x 26.2 cm);10 1/4 in x 7 13/16 in (26.1 cm x 19.9 cm)
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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Oblique view of a pylon in front of which are set an obelisk and two humanoid sculptures, half submerged in sand. A minaret peaks through the break between the two vertical elements of the pylon.
Pascal Sebah
Louqsor. Le Pylône
albumen print on paper
16 15/16 in x 14 3/16 in (43.02 cm x 36.04 cm)
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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Five men sit just outside the rectangular, columned entrances of three grottoes set into the side of a hill. 
Pascal Sebah
Béni-Hassan. Grottes du Nord
albumen print on paper
14 in x 17 in (35.56 cm x 43.18 cm)
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
View Object Record
View down onto a busy seaport populated by numerous steamships and smaller watercraft. A sliver of land with various towers and domed structures stretches across the horizon line in the distance. 
J. Pascal and Joaillier Sébah
La Pointe du Sérai
albumen print on paper
9 13/16 in x 12 3/8 in (24.92 cm x 31.43 cm);20 in x 16 in (50.8 cm x 40.64 cm)
Gift of Howard and Margaret Bond
View Object Record
Close-up view of a low-relief sculpture that depicts a human figure in twisted perspective who holds out another, much smaller, seated human figure in one hand. The figures are surrounded by images of birds and plants, as well as hieroglyphics. 
Pascal Sebah
Abidôs - Portrait de Séti I
albumen print on paper
12 1/16 in x 17 1/16 in (30.64 cm x 43.34 cm)
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
View Object Record
Photograph of the columns in the interior of a mosque.

Intérieur de la mosquée Amrou
albumen print on paper
9 15/16 in x 12 in (25.24 cm x 30.48 cm)
Transfer from the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
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