John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-86, oil on canvas, 1740 x 1537 mm (Tate Britain, London). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Conflict situations and natural disasters increase the risk of theft and trafficking dramatically. Many instances of plunder, theft and trafficking of cultural objects go unseen or unsolved. Help stop illicit trafficking of cultural property by spreading the video. For more info visit: http://on.unesco.org/2qnXeYiThis video was produced by the UNESCO Beirut Office in the framework of the Emergency Safeguarding of the Syrian Cultural Heritage project, funded by the European Union and supported by the Flemish Government and the Government of Austria.
The Antikythera Youth, 340-330 B.C.E., bronze, 1.96 m high (National Archaeological Museum, Athens), an ARCHES video speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
The Antikythera Youth, 340-330 B.C.E., bronze, 1.96 m high (National Archaeological Museum, Athens), an ARCHES video speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Basilica of Santa Maria Assunta, Torcello, founded 639, reconstructed 864 and 1008, an ARCHES video. speakers: Melissa Conn, Director Venice Office, Save Venice, and Beth Harris. Created by Smarthistory.
A conversation about the issues facing Venice and efforts to save the historic city, with Lisa Ackerman, Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, World Monuments Fund and Steven Zucker. A Smarthistory ARCHES video. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Christian Schad, Self-Portrait, 1927, oil on wood, 29 x 24-3/8 inches, 76 x 62 cm (Tate Modern, London) Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Egon Schiele, Hermits, 1912, oil on canvas, 71-1/4 x 71-1/4 inches (Leopold Museum, Vienna). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Egon Schiele, Seated Male Nude (Self-Portrait), 1910, oil and gouache on canvas, 152.5 × 150 cm (Leopold Museum, Vienna). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
This documentary, produced by the Art Institute, details how conservators and scientists have been able to solve long-standing mysteries about Vincent Van Gogh's three Bedroom paintings.
Here is a brief introduction to some of the scientific terms and procedures used by scientists at the British Museum. You can find out more about scientific research and conservation at the British Museum here: goo.gl/9drJt2.
Circle of the Gonzales family (artist), c. 1697-1701, Mexico, oil on wood, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, 229.9 x 275.8 cm (Brooklyn Museum and Museo Nacional del Virreinato - INAH, Tepotzotlán). Speakers: Dr. Lauren G. Kilroy-Ewbank and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Steven Zucker and Beth Harris.
Seated Gudea holding temple plan, known as "Architect with Plan," c. 2100 B.C.E. (Neo-Sumerian/Ur III period), from Girsu (modern Telloh, Iraq), diorite, 93 x 41 x 61 cm (Musée du Louvre, Paris). Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
The Seated Scribe, c. 2620-2500 B.C.E., c. 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom, painted limestone with rock crystal, magnesite, and copper/arsenic inlay for the eyes and wood for the nipples, found in Saqqara (Musée du Louvre, Paris). Speakers: Dr. Beth Harris and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Visual Culture and the Racial Matrix in the Premodern World
Long Description:
The capacious visual archive studied in this volume includes a trove of materials such as annotated or illuminated manuscripts, Renaissance costume books and travel books, maps and cartographic volumes produced by Europeans as well as Indigenous peoples, mass-printed pamphlets, jewelry, decorative arts, religious iconography, paintings from around the world, ceremonial objects, festival books, and play texts intended for live performance.
Contributors explore the deployment of what coeditor Noémie Ndiaye calls “the racial matrix” and its interconnected paradigms across the medieval and early modern chronological divide and across vast transnational and multilingual geographies. This volume uses items from the Fall 2023 exhibition “Seeing Race Before Race”— a collaboration between RaceB4Race® and the Newberry Library — as a starting point for an ambitious theoretical conversation between premodern race studies, art history, performance studies, book history, and critical race theory.
Word Count: 115088
ISBN: 9780866988438
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In our new, free online course, “Seeing Through Photographs,” curator Sarah Meister speaks with artists and scholars to reveal the many different factors that inform the making of a photograph.
Sefer Musre Hafilosofim (Book of Morals of Philosophers), 13th -15th century, ink and opaque watercolor on parchment, Spain (The Hispanic Society of America, New York) Speakers: Dr. Ronnie Perelis (Yeshiva University, New York) and Dr. Steven Zucker. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
Seneca Village: a thriving community of African Americans and immigrants. A conversation between Dr. Diana Wall and Dr. Steven Zucker in Central Park about Seneca Village. If you are a descendant of a Seneca Village resident, or know someone who is, please contact the Seneca Village Project at: diana.diz.wall[at]gmail.com.A Smarthistory ARCHES video. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker. Find learning related resources here: https://smarthistory.org/seeing-america-2/
A conversation between Dr. Diana Wall and Dr. Steven Zucker in Central Park about Seneca Village. If you are a descendant of a Seneca Village resident, or know someone who is, please contact the Seneca Village Project at: diana.diz.wall[at]gmail.com.A Smarthistory ARCHES video. Created by Beth Harris and Steven Zucker.
“A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte – 1884” by Georges Seurat is considered to be one of the most important 19th century paintings. It made its debut in 1886 at the 8th annual and final Impressionist exhibition in Paris and has been on display at the Art Institute of Chicago since the 1920s. Seurat’s unusual technique and the painting’s monumental scale opened the door for a more expansive European modernism. Find out more about what makes this painting a masterpiece with James Rondeau, President and Eloise W. Martin Director of the Art Institute of Chicago. Video by Bank of America. Created by Smarthistory.