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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and the National Gallery, London, have joined forces to produce an extraordinary exhibition of works from the Tuscan hilltop city of Siena in the first half of the fourteenth century.
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Readers of Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría’s earlier The Archaeology and History of Colonial Central Mexico (Cambridge, 2016) will reencounter familiar themes in this recent book.
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In her spectacular exhibition, Erica Hirshler, Croll Senior Curator of American Painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), has chosen to show Sargent’s work by juxtaposing selected portraits with clothing similar to, and in some cases actually depicted in, those paintings.
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The relations between human and animal camouflage have rarely been investigated. Current scholarship, focusing on the evolutionary and military aspects of camouflage, has overshadowed earlier thinking.
Notes from the Field
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Translated TextHow To Make a New Spain: The Material Worlds of Colonial Mexico City
Readers of Enrique Rodríguez-Alegría’s earlier The Archaeology and History of Colonial Central Mexico (Cambridge, 2016) will reencounter familiar themes in this recent book.
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Book ReviewObjects Untimely: Object-Oriented Philosophy and Archaeology
Time has long been a central concern of both archaeology and philosophy. For Plato, time was an absolute external reality. Aristotle, instead, emphasized the relative temporal relations between events.
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Book ReviewThe Art of Cloth in Mughal India
The Art of Cloth in Mughal India begins with an intriguing seventeenth-century hand-painted, mordant, and resist-dyed cotton wall hanging depicting traders, hunters, aristocrats, and monarchs from diverse parts of an early modern world intimately linked by Indian Ocean trade.
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Book ReviewArts of Allusion: Object, Ornament, & Architecture in Medieval Islam
This book can be described as an extended essay on perception and mentality in the medieval Islamic world in relationship to objects.
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Book ReviewThe Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archives of the Indies, 1781–1844.
When did colonial America begin? This is the polemical question Byron Ellsworth Hamann sets out to answer in his immensely erudite and lavishly illustrated The Invention of the Colonial Americas: Data, Architecture, and the Archives of the Indies, 1781–1844.