2010.27.2 Seamless Tube Production, Tenais Siderca, Campana/Buenos Aires, Argentina
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The scene here a
2010.27.1 Stellarator Wendelstein 7-X Detail Max Plank IPP, Greifswald, Germany
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In this work,
2002.24 Nevada 1, Nevada
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1989.133.FA Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre, The Abduction of Europa
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In 1770 Jean-Baptiste Marie Pierre succeeded his famed older rival, François Boucher, as First Painter to King Louis XV.
1950.92 Zoltan Sepeshy, The Whole Town
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In his early twenties, Zoltan Sepeshy moved from
2015.10.FA Jean Antoine Theodore Giroust, The Harp Lesson
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During a music lesson, fourteen-year-old Louise Marie Adelaïde Eugénie de Bourbon d’Orléans, daughter of the Duc d’Orléans, plays a duet with her governess, Madame de Genlis.
Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood
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In the autumn of 1848 Dante Gabriel Rossetti, William Holman Hunt, and John Everett Millais joined together to form a small collective of artists with a few commonalities: they disliked what they viewed as the stale, monotonous works displayed by the Royal Academy, they appreciated early Italian works that they studied by examining etchings such as those by late-18th, early-19th-century engravers Carlo Lasinio and Benozz
1991.378 Textile band with figures holding crescent-shaped knives (Peru, Moche-Wari)
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This textile band reflects the interaction of highland Huari (Wari) and coastal Moche along the coast. Typical of coastal production, the band was woven in dyed camelid fiber over cotton warps with slit tapestry weave. This discontinuous weave is clearly visible through the shifting colors. The technique afforded reduced consumption of precious camelid fiber, and it permitted a lighter weight fabric in the temperate zones.
1991.377 Textile border with winged figures (Peru, Moche-Wari)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This textile band reflects the interaction of highland Huari (Wari) and coastal Moche along the coast. Typical of coastal production, the band was woven in dyed camelid fiber over cotton warps with slit tapestry weave. This discontinuous weave is clearly visible in the openwork panels and through the shifting colors. The technique afforded reduced consumption of precious camelid fiber, and it permitted a lighter weight fabric in the temperate zones.
1978.2.McD Textile band with figures holding crescent-shaped knives (Peru, Moche-Wari)
GENERAL DESCRIPTION
This textile band reflects the interaction of the highland Huari (Wari) and coastal Moche along the north-central coast. Typical of coastal production, the band was woven with dyed camelid fiber over cotton warps with slit tapestry weave. This discontinuous weave is clearly visible in the openwork panels and through the shifting colors.