Beauty of Art and pictures for you

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MUSEUMS (8b)

Metropolitan Museum of Art

NEW YORK CITY

b) Sculpture masterpieces:

Sarcophagus of Harkhebit, Late Period, Saite, Dynasty 26 reign of Psamtik I–Amasis 664–525 BC

Author for 2 photos:  Jorge Elías  . Source: flickr.com

“The Little Fourteen Years Dancer” by Edgar Degas  (1834–1917)

Author:  Frank Kovalchek . Source: commons.wikimedia.org

Jacob and Esau relief, Gates of Paradise

from the east portal of the Baptistery of San Giovanni, Florence, 1425-1452

Author: Wally Gobetz. Source: flickr.com

Jean-Baptiste Carpeaux’s marble sculpture ‘Ugolino and his Sons’

Author: Wmpearl . Source: commons.wikimedia.org

Dancing Celestial, India (Uttar Pradesh), early 12th century

Zao Gongen, Heian period (794-1185), 11th-12th century, Japan, Gilt bronze

Standing Tara (Tara, the Buddhist savioress, is the most important goddess in the Buddhist pantheon), Nepal, 14th century

Gilt copper alloy with color, inlaid with semiprecious stones; H. 20 1/4 in. (51.4 cm)

Standing Crowned and Jeweled Buddhas, Burma, Pagan period, 12-13th century

Adromeda and the Sea Monster, Marble, Domenico Guidi (1625-1701), Italian (Rome), 1694

Elihu Vedder, American painter, (1836-1923) , ca. 1904, by Charles Keck (1875-1951), Bronze

Bohemian Bear Tamer, 1885-87; this cast, 1888, Paul Wayland Bartlett (1865-1925), Bronze

Author of 7 photos: Wally Gobetz. Source: flickr.com

Balloon Monument. Terracotta. Claude Michel, called Clodion (1738-1814). French (Paris), 1784

Author:  Mike Peel . Source: commons.wikimedia.org

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