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Isis Nursing Horus
Ceramic figurine of the Ptolemaic period. Metropolitan Museum. Figurines of this type appear long before the Ptolemaic era. In fact, the iconography of the "Madonna and Child" took shape in Egypt 2,000 years before the birth of Jesus
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King Arthur, tapestry of 1385, collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
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George Balanchine, founder of the School of American Ballet, born Georgiy Balanchivadze, with the ballerina Suzanne Farrell at the Saratoga Race Course, and an unidentified horseman
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Oedipus and the Sphinx, Gustave Moreau, Metropolitan Museum
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New Amsterdam in 1660
New Amsterdam in 1660. In 1667 this Dutch colony would be renamed New York
Art · Museums · Observations · New York
Augustus Saint-Gaudens's golden statue of Diana on the grand staircase of the Philadelphia Museum of Art proves that a real longing for beauty, not without a touch of the transcendent, can exist even in a country of such vulgar and ostentatious materialis
This sculpture of the 1890s previously stood atop Madison Square Garden in New York
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Marlene Dietrich in 1967
Marlene Dietrich in 1967. A photograph from a party in New York: the diva is 66
Archaeology · Heritage · New York · Society
Associated Press reports that this week, at a ceremony in the Manhattan District Attorney's office in New York, US authorities returned to Pakistan 133 stolen works of art with an estimated value of more than 13 million dollars
This is already the fifth handover of stolen antiquities of the Gandhara period to the South Asian country. Pakistan's Consul General in New York stated that the artefacts will go to museum collections across the country. The return of stolen artefacts to Pakistan specifically from the United States
Art · New York
A long-lost painting by Quentin Massys, founder of the Antwerp school of painting, known from seven copies by his own circle and from its appearance in another picture as one of the…
NB! · Art · New York · Humour
The Future of Mankind?
The future of mankind? By the American illustrator Reid Kikuo Johnson, cover of The New Yorker, October 2017
NB! · Museums · New York · Palaeontology · Nature · Humour
The enchanting model of a dwarf elephant calf at the American Museum of Natural History is one of the sweetest things ever made by the exhibition department of any museum whatsoever
The enchanting model of a dwarf elephant calf at the American Museum of Natural History is one of the sweetest things ever made by the exhibition department of any museum whatsoever. The calf is no larger than a pet dog, while the adult of this extinct species stood a mere