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Famous for his depictions of modernist icons such as the Brooklyn Bridge, the Italian-born artist Joseph Stella immigrated to New York in 1896. There, he produced Cubo-Futurist compositions of the city that captured the tempo and dynamism of urban life. In later years, however, Stella returned to Italy and focused increasingly on religious themes. Here, the Virgin Mary appears against a dense array of fruits and flowers—common symbols of fertility—with a view of the Bay of Naples in the background. Reinterpreting Italian Renaissance altarpieces through a brightly saturated palette and bold modeling of form, Stella’s Madonna embodies the early twentieth-century interest in religion and spirituality.
Caption
Building Scene, ca. 1352–1347 B.C.E.. Limestone, pigment, 8 3/8 x 10 5/8 x 1 7/16 in. (21.2 x 27 x 3.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund, 61.195.1. Creative Commons-BY (Photo: Brooklyn Museum, 61.195.1_SL1.jpg)
Title
Building Scene
Date
ca. 1352–1347 B.C.E.
Dynasty
late Dynasty 18
Period
New Kingdom, Amarna Period
Geography
Place found: Hermopolis Magna, Egypt, Place made: Tell el-Amarna, Egypt
Medium
Limestone, pigment
Classification
Dimensions
8 3/8 x 10 5/8 x 1 7/16 in. (21.2 x 27 x 3.6 cm)
Credit Line
Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund
Accession Number
61.195.1
Rights
Creative Commons-BY
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These reliefs that you just photographed are really special because they come from the part of a city that people actually lived and worked in. Most of what you see in many ours and many museums come from tombs.People only lived in the city of Akhetaten, as it was called in ancient times, for a very short period. This actually makes it much easier for archaeologists to study.So... what year was the boom box invented?
It looks like the first boombox device was created in 1969. Over your shoulder is a useful way to carry a variety of things like boomboxes or, in this case, a stone masonry block.Nice! Thank you. You're awesome.The scenes of everyday life in this gallery are really interesting. The city of Tell el-Amarna (known as Akhetaten in ancient times) was only occupied for a few decades and then abandoned, so a lot more of the city is preserved than just the tombs.
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