The San Diego Museum of Art presents The Invention of Glory. Afonso V and the Pastrana an exhibition on view June 9–September 9, 2012. The Conquest of Tangier, c.1470. Wool and silk. Diocese of Sigüenza [Read More]
Antiquities
515 posts
Queen Lovisa Ulrika’s memorial cup was donated to the museum at the annual meeting of the Friends of Nationalmuseum. This unique object was made by silversmith Pehr Zethelius and presented as a memento to Johan [Read More]
The Frick Collection presents Gold, Jasper, and Carnelian. Johann Christian Neuber at the Saxon Court, an exhibition on view May 30 through August 19, 2012. Johann Christian Neuber (1736–1808) was one of Dresden’s most famous [Read More]
CINCINNATI – Cincinnati Museum Center is pleased to announce that the artifacts from The Banks Project are now on display for public viewing in the Cincinnati History Museum. This display contains many artifacts of local [Read More]
The California Science Center announces Cleopatra. The Search for the Last Queen of Egypt, an exhibition on view from May 23, 2012. More than 150 priceless Egyptian artifacts illuminating the life of Cleopatra VII, one [Read More]
At the annual meeting of its Art Collectors’ Council, The Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens enriched its European art collection with the acquisition of St. George and the Dragon (ca. 1522–27), a well-preserved, [Read More]
American Express and World Monuments Fund announced $1 million in grant funding to six historic sites. This is the first allocation from a $5 million, five-year grant to the World Monuments Fund to support the [Read More]
The Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman presents Extreme History Project Lecture Series: Archaeology on Ice in the Rocky Mountains on 5/17/2012 6:00 PM – 7:00 PM . Unprecedented melting of ancient snow and ice [Read More]
The University of British Columbia Museum of Anthropology (MOA) presents Visions of Enlightenment, an exhibition of Buddhist art on view May 10-Sept 30, 2012. As Buddhism spread across Asia, symbols and sacred images developed to [Read More]
The Rijksmuseum has handed over a unique loan to the National Maritime Museum in London. After 345 years, the ‘stern carvings decoration’ of the flagship the Royal Charles has been returned to England. In June [Read More]
The Israel Museum presents White Gold. Revealing the World’s Earliest Coins, an exhibition on view May 8, 2012-March 31, 2013. Electrum Stater. Lesbos . Ca. 500 – 450 BCE . Lion’s head right / incuse [Read More]
The Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge presents The Search for Immortality. Tomb Treasures of Han China, an exhibition on view 5 May to 11 November 2012. Jade coffin Second century bc, Western Han dynasty Length: 280 [Read More]
The Brooklyn Museum presents Aesthetic Ambitions. Edward Lycett and Brooklyn’s Faience Manufacturing Company, an exhibition on view May 3, 2012–June 16, 2013. Edward Lycett (American, b. England, 1833–1910). Faience Manufacturing Company (1881–92). Covered Vase, circa [Read More]
The Penn Museum in Philadelphia Explores Origins of 2012 End of World Predictions with a Major New Exhibition MAYA 2012: Lords of Time The Penn Museum confronts the current fascination with the year 2012, comparing [Read More]
When Penn Museum agreed to lend objects from its Egyptian collection to the Metropolitan Museum of Art for their new exhibition, The Dawn of Egyptian Art (April 10 through August 5, 2012), Penn Museum’s Egyptian [Read More]
An extremely rare mother-of-pearl-inlaid Mexican folding screen, commissioned about 1700 by the viceroy of New Spain has been purchased by the Brooklyn Museum from Salvart Limited in London. Circle of the González Family (Mexican, late [Read More]
Professor Nasser D. Khalili has presented the Ashmolean with an exceptional embroidered sitarah (curtain) made for the tomb of the Prophet Muhammad in Medina. The textile will go on permanent display in the Ashmolean’s Islamic [Read More]
Discovery Times Square presents Terracotta Warriors. Defenders of China’s First Emperor, an exhibition on view , featuring nine of the estimated 8,000 figures entombed at Xian in central China. The Terracotta Army or the “Terra [Read More]