keyword pages:  1  2  3  >  
< 1 of 21 >
The Museum The museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see iwth awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to see himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one digestible meal. Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting, Inc.website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Use of the photos without written permission is strictly prohibited. Watermarks that appear on the digital prints do not appear on printed photos or downloads.
Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved) website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org)
Between Earth and Heaven: El Anatsui, Nigeria Displayed in Gallery 350 in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, this work by an African master of international renown is a highly original creation that constitutes a response to a classic canonical form of expression. It is a powerful instance of the vitality of contemporary expression in African and the continuity that exists with the traditional forms that are the focus of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's collection. In recent series of works that "Between Earth and Heaven" relates to refer to the celebrated West African traditions of strip-woven textiles namely that of Kente developed by Akan and Ewe weavers in Anatsui's native Ghana. Those traditional textiles are at once monumental in scale and highly sculptural in the way they drape the body as the apparel of leaders. The undulation of this work evokes that tactile quality and its resplendent color scheme of gold, red and black translate and transpose the aesthetic of finely woven silk into the medium of base metal. (courtesy by www.metmuseum/org) Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved) website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org)
Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved) website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org) About the Art: The art of the Sawos, Iatmul, and neighboring peoples in the Middle Sepik region of northeastern New Guinea is primarily associated with their impressive men’s ceremonial houses, which are seen as the embodiments of primordial female ancestors. The triangular gables at either end of Sawos and Iatmul men’s houses rise into steep peaks crowned by separately carved wood finials that depict human figures with birds, usually eagles, perched above them. Local interpretations of this imagery vary. In some instances, the human images are said to represent enemies subdued by the power of the village’s totemic beings. In this interpretation, the bird symbolizes the village’s martial strength, which in former times assured victory in war. According to other accounts, the finial images represent the dual nature of the primordial bird-men and bird-women, who originally created the sacred musical instruments, consisting of bamboo flutes and slit gongs that were kept within the ceremonial houses and played a central role in ritual life. (Information provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org)
Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved) website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org) About the Art: The art of the Sawos, Iatmul, and neighboring peoples in the Middle Sepik region of northeastern New Guinea is primarily associated with their impressive men’s ceremonial houses, which are seen as the embodiments of primordial female ancestors. The triangular gables at either end of Sawos and Iatmul men’s houses rise into steep peaks crowned by separately carved wood finials that depict human figures with birds, usually eagles, perched above them. Local interpretations of this imagery vary. In some instances, the human images are said to represent enemies subdued by the power of the village’s totemic beings. In this interpretation, the bird symbolizes the village’s martial strength, which in former times assured victory in war. According to other accounts, the finial images represent the dual nature of the primordial bird-men and bird-women, who originally created the sacred musical instruments, consisting of bamboo flutes and slit gongs that were kept within the ceremonial houses and played a central role in ritual life. (Information provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org)
Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved) website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org) About the Art: The art of the Sawos, Iatmul, and neighboring peoples in the Middle Sepik region of northeastern New Guinea is primarily associated with their impressive men’s ceremonial houses, which are seen as the embodiments of primordial female ancestors. The triangular gables at either end of Sawos and Iatmul men’s houses rise into steep peaks crowned by separately carved wood finials that depict human figures with birds, usually eagles, perched above them. Local interpretations of this imagery vary. In some instances, the human images are said to represent enemies subdued by the power of the village’s totemic beings. In this interpretation, the bird symbolizes the village’s martial strength, which in former times assured victory in war. According to other accounts, the finial images represent the dual nature of the primordial bird-men and bird-women, who originally created the sacred musical instruments, consisting of bamboo flutes and slit gongs that were kept within the ceremonial houses and played a central role in ritual life. (Information provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org)
Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved) website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org) About the Art: The art of the Sawos, Iatmul, and neighboring peoples in the Middle Sepik region of northeastern New Guinea is primarily associated with their impressive men’s ceremonial houses, which are seen as the embodiments of primordial female ancestors. The triangular gables at either end of Sawos and Iatmul men’s houses rise into steep peaks crowned by separately carved wood finials that depict human figures with birds, usually eagles, perched above them. Local interpretations of this imagery vary. In some instances, the human images are said to represent enemies subdued by the power of the village’s totemic beings. In this interpretation, the bird symbolizes the village’s martial strength, which in former times assured victory in war. According to other accounts, the finial images represent the dual nature of the primordial bird-men and bird-women, who originally created the sacred musical instruments, consisting of bamboo flutes and slit gongs that were kept within the ceremonial houses and played a central role in ritual life. (Information provided by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, http://www.metmuseum.org)
Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved) website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography. Gallery 534 - Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco -- Explained: Don Pedro Fajardo y Chacón (ca. 1478–1546), governor of Murcia during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, assisted in suppressing the Moorish rebellions and was rewarded with the town of Vélez Blanco. Between 1506 and 1515 he erected a castle that included a central courtyard embellished with Italian Renaissance ornament in local Macael marble, carved by craftsmen from Lombardy. The patio was sold in 1904 and George Blumenthal acquired it for his New York residence. After Blumenthal's death the approximately two thousand marble blocks were brought to the Museum and reassembled, as faithfully as possible, in 1964. It surrounds the most important collection of monumental Italian Renaissance sculptures in America. (Information courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Sculpture: Orpheus by Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano) 1556-1619 Carved for the Palazzo Corsi, Florence.Jacopo di Giovanni Corsi ; his brother, Bardo di Giovanni Corsi ; Descended in the Corsi Family, Florence , at the same location until ca. 1824 ; Joseph Spiradon, France ; [ Jacques Seligmann and Co. ] ; George and Florence Blumenthal , by 1926, until her death in 1930 ; George Blumenthal , until his death; to MMA Details: Orpheus, Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano) (1556–1619), Date: ca. 1600–01 Culture: Italian, Florence Medium: Marble Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 77 1/8 x 38 x 23 7/8 in. (195.9 x 96.5 x 60.6 cm) Overall (historic dimensions, superceded): 76 1/2 in. (194.3 cm) Classification: Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941 Accession Number: 41.100.242 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org)
Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting. (All Rights Reserved) website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Available for purchase. Watermark does not appear on printed or downloaded photography. Gallery 534 - Patio from the Castle of Vélez Blanco -- Explained: Don Pedro Fajardo y Chacón (ca. 1478–1546), governor of Murcia during the reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, assisted in suppressing the Moorish rebellions and was rewarded with the town of Vélez Blanco. Between 1506 and 1515 he erected a castle that included a central courtyard embellished with Italian Renaissance ornament in local Macael marble, carved by craftsmen from Lombardy. The patio was sold in 1904 and George Blumenthal acquired it for his New York residence. After Blumenthal's death the approximately two thousand marble blocks were brought to the Museum and reassembled, as faithfully as possible, in 1964. It surrounds the most important collection of monumental Italian Renaissance sculptures in America. (Information courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art) The Sculpture: Orpheus by Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano) 1556-1619 Carved for the Palazzo Corsi, Florence.Jacopo di Giovanni Corsi ; his brother, Bardo di Giovanni Corsi ; Descended in the Corsi Family, Florence , at the same location until ca. 1824 ; Joseph Spiradon, France ; [ Jacques Seligmann and Co. ] ; George and Florence Blumenthal , by 1926, until her death in 1930 ; George Blumenthal , until his death; to MMA Details: Orpheus, Cristoforo Stati (Cristofano da Bracciano) (1556–1619), Date: ca. 1600–01 Culture: Italian, Florence Medium: Marble Dimensions: Overall (confirmed): 77 1/8 x 38 x 23 7/8 in. (195.9 x 96.5 x 60.6 cm) Overall (historic dimensions, superceded): 76 1/2 in. (194.3 cm) Classification: Sculpture Credit Line: Gift of George Blumenthal, 1941 Accession Number: 41.100.242 The Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC. The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Founded in 1870, the Metropolitan Museum is located in New York City's Central Park along Fifth Avenue (from 80th to 84th Streets). Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. (information courtesy of: http://www.metmuseum.org)
The Museum
The museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see iwth awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to see himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one digestible meal.

Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting, Inc.
website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook
Use of the photos without written permission is strictly prohibited. Watermarks that appear on the digital prints do not appear on printed photos or downloads.

Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting, Inc.
website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook
Use of the photos without written permission is strictly prohibited. Watermarks that appear on the digital prints do not appear on printed photos or downloads.

" href="javascript:openLB(1742619650,'',XLarge,'',1024,402);">The Museum The museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see iwth awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to see himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one digestible meal. Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting, Inc.website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook Use of the photos without written permission is strictly prohibited. Watermarks that appear on the digital prints do not appear on printed photos or downloads.
The Museum
The museum is not meant either for the wanderer to see by accident or for the pilgrim to see iwth awe. It is meant for the mere slave of a routine of self-education to see himself with every sort of incongruous intellectual food in one digestible meal.

Photography by Liesl Marelli of Girona Consulting, Inc.
website ⁞ blog ⁞ e-mail ⁞ facebook
Use of the photos without written permission is strictly prohibited. Watermarks that appear on the digital prints do not appear on printed photos or downloads.

See photo in original gallery.
keyword pages:  1  2  3  >  
< 1 of 21 >


"Like" us on Facebook
Click to contact us