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Title

Royal Vienna Inkwell with blue and gold designs on the four sides

Artist

Artist Unknown

Physical Description

Inkwell made of porcelain has a square shape body and a round lid cover. It is decorated in detail patterns of blue, gold and white; and it has scenes of thr royals on the side body of the inkwell.

Object Creation Date

1875-1975

Accession Number

2010/1.296

Medium and Support

porcelain

relevance

rank 25.62834

Primary Keywords

inkwell

porcelain and pottery, minton

vienna (inhabited place)

Title

Portrait of Arnold Schönberg

Artist

Felix Albrecht Harta

Physical Description

Minimal line drawing presents a 3/4 profile of man, with right ear, a tuft of hair, mouth, nose, full right eye, partial left eye, eyebrows, eye lashes, and minimal chin.

Artist Life Dates

(1884 - 1967)

Century

20th century

Accession Number

2007/2.112

Medium and Support

graphite on beige wove paper

relevance

rank 25.62834

Primary Keywords

celebrity

portraits

profiles (figures)

vienna (inhabited place)

Title

Study for a Chapel in Vienna

Artist

Andrea Pozzo

Physical Description

This study depicts a rectangular chapel with the side walls bent outward at an angle in order to provide a clearer view of the decoration. The chapel design centers upon a sarcophagus placed beneath a painted altarpiece of the Virgin and Child, which are both set within a semicircular architectural projection that extends dynamically from the wall. On the left the pair of angels that support a large oval-shaped painting reach vigorously outward, their wings overlapping the pilasters. On the right appears another sarcophagus surmounted by a pair of putti. Leaning out from the oval niche above the sarcophagus is a female half-figure—probably a portrait of the deceased—making a gesture of devotion toward the altar.

Artist Life Dates

1642-1709

Century

17th century

Object Creation Date

circa 1662-1709

Accession Number

1960/2.124

Medium and Support

oil on canvas

relevance

rank 25.35845

Primary Keywords

altarpieces

chapels

coffins

oil paintings

vienna (inhabited place)

Title

Monument to the Lycée Chases

Artist

Christian Boltanski

Physical Description

Three black and white photographs of young people's faces are vertically arranged. Above each and below the center image are smaller versions of similar portrait photographs. Four of these smaller photos are also arranged in the line of the large photographs, one on each end, and two separating the larger pictues. All the photos are surrounded by an arrangement of light bulbs, which are connected by a network of electrical cables that snake along the walls and over the photos.

Artist Life Dates

Born 1944

Century

20th century

Object Creation Date

1989

Accession Number

2006/1.154

Medium and Support

gelatin silver prints, biscuit tins, electric cables, and sixty-eight lightbulbs

relevance

rank 22.94235

Primary Keywords

assemblages (sculpture)

deaths

gelatin silver prints

lamps (lighting device components)

light art

memory

mortality

vienna (inhabited place)

youth