No eminent Victorian’s mantelpiece was complete without its little bronze animal ... les animaliers abandoned the Greek and Renaissance art, which idealized man, and started ennobling the ...
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is returning a bronze griffin’s head from the seventh century BC to Greece after it was found to have been stolen from a museum there in the 1930s. The cast-bronze ...
This science of trees inspired my colleague and me to measure the scaling of tree branch diameter in art. Among my favorite images is a carving of a tree from a late-medieval mosque in India.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has announced plans to return a 7th-century bronze head of a griffin to Greece. This follows new provenance research that suggests the artifact was probably stolen ...
researchers found the tree in the top-left carving had the most “tree-like” branch diameter scaling exponent. Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art (for “Cherry Blossoms”) Newberry shared that ...
The bronze sold on Sunday was one of a numbered edition of six, and was sand-cast by the art dealer Eugène Blot in 1907. Four of the other editions have been lost and another is held by the ...
The Cleveland Museum of Art, which has featured the bronze in its collection since 1986, agreed Friday to surrender the statue in response to a seizure order from Manhattan investigators who have ...
Recent scientific work also bolsters Asian Bronze, whose three core curators were joined by a metal conservator. Among 75 masterpieces gloriously showcased as art not ethnography is a solid ...