hoanglan-nguyen-photography:

I went to the MET for the first time on Saturday. I have to go back again. Everything I saw was so beautiful O__O

melsarthistorynotes:

Claus Sluter, Well of Moses, ca. 1395-1406 Asnieres stone

 I think this is one of the pieces my professor may be writing a book about studies, but you can’t quote me on this because I just remember the statues surrounding a column and them being Old Testament figures - like Moses. I’m sure there are loads of those, so…

ihaveimaginaryfriends:

MUSA (Museo Subacuático de Arte), Cancun, Mexico, consists of over 403 permanent life-size sculptures and is one of the largest underwater artificial art attractions in the world.

yumuseum:

DOOR TO ANOTHER WORLD - THE BEN-EZRA SYNAGOGUE ARK DOOR

Coming to YU Museum in 2013, the Ben-Ezra Synagogue. Read on to find out more!

From “Treasures from the Ben Ezra Synagogue” on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Bizantium and Islam: Age of Transition exhibition blog. 

by Yitzchak Schwartz, Research Associate, Yeshiva University

Monday, April 2, 2012

Several of the Jewish manuscripts on view in Byzantium and Islam: Age of Transition, including the example shown above, are thought to have come from the Cairo Genizah, a repository of communal, religious, and business documents housed in the attic of the tenth-century Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo that was re-discovered in 1896 by Cambridge scholar Solomon Schechter

The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore and the Yeshiva University Museum in New York City co-own another treasure from the Ben Ezra Synagogue: one of the doors of the synagogue’s ark, the compartment where the scriptures are kept. According to an article in the Baltimore Sun (August 30, 2000), the door was discovered at an estate sale in central Florida in 1993 or 1994 and purchased for $37.50. After experts—including Byzantium and Islam catalogue contributor Steven Fine—identified the panel as originating from the Ben Ezra Synagogue, and testing confirmed that it dated to the eleventh century, it was acquired by the museums as a joint purchase.

Read the rest of this discussion on the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Bizantium and Islam: Age of Transition exhibition blog.

Image: Panel from a Torah Shrine, ca. 1040. Cairo, Egypt. Wood (walnut) with traces of paint and gilt. 34 3/8 x 14 7/16 x 1 in. (87.3 x 36.7 x 2.5 cm). The Walters Art Museum and Yeshiva University Museum (64.181)

” When you put all your soul into a work, all that is noble in you, you cannot fail to find a kindred soul who understands you, and you do not need a host of such spirits.”

philamuseum:

The summer 2012 Rodin Museum re-opening just keeps getting closer! Here, Ryma Hatahet, who is interning with us from the French conservation program of the Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris, and Andrew Lins, the Neubauer Family Chair of Conservation and Senior Conservator of Decorative Arts and Sculpture here at the Museum, work on getting Rodin’s ‘Adam’ and ‘The Shade’ ready for outdoor display. The work involves rebuilding a stable patina that imitates its original layering over a surface that’s been treated to remove corrosion and particulates. After this step, the surfaces will be given a protective coating.