Or rather, objects from a sorcerer’s daily life.
Objects from daily life found in Pompeii
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Category Archives: Religion
Ancient mosaics from a synagogue
Mosaics dating to the late Roman period have been found in a synagogue in modern Israel “challenge current notions of ancient Jewish aesthetics and the art of depicting scripture.”
Fish swallowing Pharoah’s soldier in the Parting of the Red Sea
Smuggling ancient artifacts
“Hobby Lobby’s $3 million smuggling case casts a cloud over the Museum of the Bible”
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Read more here.
“The Art of the Qur’an”…
“The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures From the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts,” is a new exhibit at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington, D.C. on the Mall. Most works are on loan from a museum in Istanbul, and have never been on exhibit before. As Holland Cotter writes,
“The impression of the Washington exhibition is of splendor, not just from book to book and page to page, but within individual pages, with their nested divisions, their lustrous ornaments and their sprouting, rolling, singing Arabic phrases, which form the ethical heart of a faith and a culture.” The New York Times, Nov. 10, 2016.
Read the rest of Cotter’s review here. This is a spectacular and important exhibit.
Visitors studying a folio from a large Quran dating to about 1400 in the exhibition “The Art of the Qur’an: Treasures From the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts,” at the Arthur M. Sackler Gallery in Washington. Credit Justin T. Gellerson for The New York Times
Here is a link to the Sackler and a short video about the works.
Ancient Greek citadel in Jerusalem discovered
Recent archaeological work in Jerusalem under what was a parking lot reveals a Greek citadel and evidence of 2nd c. BCE Greek occupation discussed in the Hebrew Bible. Read more in this National Geographic article by Andrew Lawler, April 22, 2016.
Michelangelo’s Last Judgment
Here is an interesting — and brief — account of the controversy surrounding the nudity depicted by Michelangelo in his great fresco of the Last Judgment in the Sistine Chapel.
Sistine Chapel…what’s new
Pope Benedict celebrates the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo’s frescoes on the Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Visitors to the Chapel in the future may experience a slightly different "entrance" as they are vacuumed and cleaned before entering this space.
Caravaggio’s “Madonna di Loreto”
It’s an incredible painting…by Caravaggio.
The Red Monastery Project
In conjunction with the exhibition “Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in NYC (on view March 14 through July 8, 2012), art historian Elizabeth Bolman introduces the Red Monastery project.
Baroque theater
What amazing theater!
There’s also an interesting Smarthistory discussion about this work.
