One of the two lion statues (Kemeys, bronze 1893) flanking the Institute's main entrances
The earliest recorded depictions of lions can be found in some of the earliest paleolithic human cave art, possibly dating to 32,000 years ago in the Chauvet Cave in the Ardèche region of southern France, where lionesses are depicted hunting for the pride in much the same strategy as contemporary lions.
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Art of Mesopotamia (4500-539 BCE): Ceramics, Statues, Reliefs, Mosaics, Ziggurats: Sumer, Babylonia, Akkad, Assyrian Empire
Metalwork: Metalwork, useful and decorative objects fashioned of various metals, including copper, iron, silver, bronze, lead, gold, and brass. The earliest man-made objects were of stone, wood, bone, and earth.
Horse Head in gilded silver (350 CE) Example of Sassanid metalwork from Kerman. Louvre, Paris. Persian Art: Introduction (3500-1700 BCE) Persia, one of the oldest countries in the world, and one of the earliest civilizations in the history of art, occupies the Persian plateau, bounded by the Elburz and Baluchistan mountains in the north and east.
This list, from The ARTery's Greg Cook, adopts a more expansive definition of art.
The First Coin. The most fundamental debate involving these coins is whether the Lydian Lion is in fact the world's first true coin. Much here depends on what definition you use for "coin."
In light of an upcoming collaboration with Independent Artfilms JKF, WhiteBox is pleased to announce the release of Documenta 14 Goes to Athens, a feature-length documentary on one of the world’s premier art exhibitions.
2016. Ryan William Dement 2016 HS, Ryan was born in Staten Island, N.Y. in 1998 and moved with his family to Alto in 2002.He is a graduate of NMMI (New Mexico Military Institute) where he played baseball for the Colt team.
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