Peale Family (American artists)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following essay comes from the catalogue for a 1960 exhibition, Famous Families in American Art (Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, October 8- November 20, 1960).
Roman Figure of a Woman [1973.11] at the DMA, (100 Treasures, 100 Years)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In 1973 Cecil and Ida Green gave the Dallas Museum of Art a major ancient sculpture, the Roman "Figure of a woman" (1973.11). This followed the couple's 1966 gift of the Classical Greek "Figure of a young man" (1996.26), one of the Museum's great treasures. Since Mr. and Mrs. Green were a devoted couple, the Museum staff fondly called the two sculptures "Ida" and "Cecil."
Roman _Figure of a Woman_ [1973.11]
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following essay is from the 1996 publication Gods, Men, and Heroes: Ancient Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Roman _Head of a Youth_ [1984.163]
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following essay is from the 1996 publication Gods, Men, and Heroes: Ancient Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.
Roman _Portrait Head of a Young Man_ [1981.169]
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The following essay is from the 1996 publication Gods, Men, and Heroes: Ancient Art at the Dallas Museum of Art.
20th Century design: The Last Thirty Years
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The last thirty years of the 20th century saw the world grow increasingly interrelated due to political and technological change. The Cold War first began to thaw during the 1970s. In the next decade, tension between the Communist and capitalist powers receded further and climaxed in 1989 with the demolition of the Berlin Wall. Within a year, Germany was reunified, Europe's Communist regimes were overthrown, and the U.S.S.R.
1991.114, Relief: from a throne or architectural monument (The Nile god Hapi ritually tying together Upper and Lower Egypt), Egyptian, 26th Dynasty, 664-525 B.C.E, Schist slate
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
From the 26th Dynasty (664-525 BCE), this schist fragment depicts the Nile god Hapi carved in sunken relief as a double image, each with a floral headdress, tying together the heraldic plants of Upper and Lower Egypt.
1999.115, Portrait Head of a man, Roman, 130-145 C.E.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This Roman head is of the finest quality of the imperial workshops in the late Hadrianic or early Antonine period. The emperor Hadrian had begun a fashion for portraying himself bearded like a Greek philosopher.
2015.31, Head of Herakles, c. 1st century C.E., marble
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This composite sculpture is as interesting for its later history in 18th-century French art as it is for its Roman origins.
1995.82, Mummy portrait, Egyptian, Roman Period, late second century C.E.
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
The idea of the mummy mask, which was placed over the embalmed and shrouded body of a dead person, goes back in Egyptian art to the Middle Kingdom (early 2nd millennium B.C.E). Even earlier, "reserve heads," or magical portraits of the dead person, were left in Old Kingdom tombs.