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Title

Views of Rome. 36. The Pyramid of Caius Cestius

Artist

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

Artist Life Dates

Venice, 1720 - 1778, Rome

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1756

Accession Number

1969/2.123

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 10.68914

Secondary Keywords

architecture

monuments

Title

Eight Landscapes. 2. Landscape with a Pyramid

Artist

Giovanni Grimaldi

Artist Life Dates

1606-1680

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

1606-1680

Accession Number

1970/2.130

Medium and Support

etching on paper

relevance

rank 9.90937

Secondary Keywords

architecture

figures

monuments

people and occupations

plants

the natural world

waterscapes

Title

Ancona with a View of the Arch of Trajan

Artist

Samuel Prout

Physical Description

This small watercolor shows the view of an arch by a city waterfront. A wall closes off the left side of the street leading up to the arch, and creates a powerful sense of recession into space leading from the foreground to the monument in the middle distance. Scattered figures inhabit the street. Beyond the arch may be glimpsed the waters of a bay and a hill rising above the far shore.

Artist Life Dates

(1783 - 1852)

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1824-1852

Accession Number

2009/1.511.4

Medium and Support

watercolor, bodycolor, pen with brown ink on paper

relevance

rank 9.27120

Secondary Keywords

bodies of water

bodies of water and components of bodies of water

bodies of water by location

buildings and the land

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descriptors

europe (continent)

geographic and political locations

image-making processes and techniques

landscapes (environments)

memorial arches

monuments

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objects we use

paintings

paintings by material or technique

perspective and shading techniques

processes and techniques

processes and techniques by specific type

settlements and landscapes

single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

visual works

visual works by medium or technique

Title

Pope Alexander VII (obverse), and the Piazzo del Popolo (reverse)

Artist

Gioacchino Travani

Physical Description

The front (obverse) of this medal represents a portrait of a man in profile wearing a papal tiara and a cope. The reverse depicts a city square dominated by an obelisk with a pair of identical domed churches in the background. Inscriptions run around the edge of the medal on both sides.

Artist Life Dates

Active 1634-1674

Century

17th-18th century

Object Creation Date

1662

Accession Number

1984/1.282

Medium and Support

bronze

relevance

rank 7.99862

Secondary Keywords

image form

biological components

buildings and the land

christian clergy

clergy

components

components and systems

components by specific context

copper alloy

copper and copper alloy

descriptors

forming

inorganic material

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medals

metal

metal and metal products

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monuments

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nonferrous metal

objects we use

open spaces

open spaces and site elements

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people

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people in religion and related occupations

people in the humanities

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processes and techniques

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single built works

single built works by function

single built works by specific type

the human body

upper body

views

views by vantage point or orientation

visual works

visual works by form

Title

The Edwards Family on a Terrace

Artist

Charles Philips

Physical Description

Six figures appear in a formal garden landscape. On the right a pair of men in powdered wigs stand behind two women, one seated in a wheelchair, before an elaborate portico. A pair of boys, also sporting wigs, stand on the left, partly screened by a fountain. One of the boys holds a shell and the other carries a parrot. A small pool extends through the middle ground behind the figures and draws attention to the setting and the distant obelisk visible above the trees.

Artist Life Dates

1708 - 1747

Century

18th century

Object Creation Date

1732

Accession Number

2000/2.3

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 7.98426

Secondary Keywords

animals and creatures

birds

buildings and the land

combination inorganic/organic animal material

combination inorganic/organic material

descriptors

england (country)

europe (continent)

geographic and political locations

greater london (metropolitan area)

group portraits

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hydraulic structures by function

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shell and shell material

single built works

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visual works

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water distribution structures

Title

Oiso Station, tora-ga-ame (Tora's Rain), Plate 9 from Tokaido Gojusan-tsugi (Fifty-three Stations of the Eastern Road)

Artist

Andô Hiroshige

Physical Description

A landscape of the bank by the river with mountains in the distance. There are trees, huts, and several tombstones in the foreground. Two figures are walking toward a hut.

Artist Life Dates

1797-1858

Century

19th century

Object Creation Date

1855

Accession Number

1974/1.102

Medium and Support

color woodblock print on paper, ôban yoko-e size

relevance

rank 4.93176

Secondary Keywords

layout features

upward

buildings and the land

components

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descriptors

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houses by form

illustrations

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inorganic material

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transportation vehicles

vegetation and vegetation components

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watercraft

watercraft by general type

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Title

As Long as I Don't Have to Get Up Before 11:00

Artist

Mark Kostabi

Physical Description

Ink drawing on paper. Black wash ground, with two figures drawn in opaque black ink. A comic figure who is shirtless and in boxers, with his beer belly hanging out, and whose pointy rimmed hat is reminiscent of the scarecrow in the Wizard of Oz, dances at the center of an ominous scene. His right leg has been kicked through a television set that he holds with his right hand. Scissors fall from his left hand towards what looks like a two-slot toaster. A black, horned beast lurks in the background, holding a phone overhead that has two earpieces, but no cradle. The scene is possibly set in a graveyard; the edifice silhouetting behind the scarecrow figure is shaped like a headstone.

Artist Life Dates

born 1960

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1988

Accession Number

2008/2.240

Medium and Support

ink on paper

relevance

rank 4.80299

Secondary Keywords

layout features

animals and creatures

architectural elements

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telecommunication systems components

visual works

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Title

The Lord's Prayer, sheet 11 - The Power and the Glory (Das Vaterunser - Und die Kraft und die Herrlichkeit)

Artist

Max Pechstein

Physical Description

Positioned in the upper center, a large eye sits inside a black triangle from which five arms and hands radiate. Behind the triangle and extending to the viewer's right edge is a rainbow. Below the triangle is a stylized, mask-like face that radiates beams of light rom its eyes. On each side of this large face is a man's face in profile. In the far background, there are mountains and clouds.

Artist Life Dates

1881 - 1955

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1921

Accession Number

1948/1.433

Medium and Support

woodcut with hand-coloring on paper

relevance

rank 4.43195

Secondary Keywords

transfer method

architecture

arms

associated concepts

biological components

components

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document genres

document genres by form

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earth sciences concepts

electromagnetic radiation

energy

energy and related concepts

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human body

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prints

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relief prints

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styles and periods

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the natural world

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visual works

visual works by medium or technique

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weather and related phenomena

weather-related phenomena