Blackburn Art History

Supplements, continuations, elaborations connected to art history courses including non-Western art history at Blackburn College in Carlinville, Illinois.

Thursday, November 8, 2018

The Great Goddess Description

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The Great Goddess mural The Great Goddess , a large mural, was found in a pyramid in Teotihuacán. One of its most striking element...

Chief of the Undersea Description

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Attribution: By Emancipator at the English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=2242464 This sc...

The Teaching Vase Description

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This piece is titled The Teaching Vase.  It dates back to Mesoamerican time, and while it is still undetermined, researchers have narrowed t...
Wednesday, November 7, 2018

Kunze Axe

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  Both images taken of the "Kunz Axe" from the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This exquisite ceremonial ob...

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Fisherman Description Fisherman made by the artist Wu Zhen (Chinese, 1280-1354) has remarkable elements. The line work on the leave...

Portuguese Merchants and Trading Vessels

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Portuguese Merchants and Trading Vessels is an early 17th century Japanese paper screen. The paper screen shows traders from the south, al...

Paradise Under the Sea Description

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Shigeru Aoki is a Japanese painter known mostly for combining Japanese legends and religious subjects in the late 19th centu...
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