The Princeton University Art Museum is Princeton University's gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1882, it now houses over 72,000 works of art that range from antiquity to the contemporary period. The Princeton University Art Museum dedicates itself to supporting and enhancing the university’s goals of teaching, research, and service in fields of art and culture, as well as to serving regional communities and visitors from around the world. Its collections concentrate on the Mediterranean region, Western Europe, China, the United States, and Latin America. The museum has a large collection of Greek and Roman antiquities, including ceramics, marbles, bronzes, and Roman mosaics from Princeton University’s excavations in Antioch. Medieval Europe is represented by sculpture, metalwork, and stained glass. The collection of Western European paintings includes examples from the early Renaissance through the nineteenth century, and there is a growing collection of twentieth-century and contemporary art. Photographic holdings are a particular strength, numbering over 20,000 works from the invention of the camera in 1839 to the present. The museum is also noted for its Asian art gallery, which includes a wide collection of Chinese calligraphy, painting, ancient bronze works, jade carvings, as well as porcelain selections. In addition to its collections, the museum mounts regular temporary exhibitions featuring works from its own holdings as well loans made from public and private collections around the world. Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University_Art_Museum
The Princeton University Art Museum is Princeton University's gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. Founded in 1882, it now houses over 72,000 works of art that range from antiquity to the contemporary period. The Princeton University Art Museum dedicates itself to supporting and enhancing the university’s goals of teaching, research, and service in fields of art and culture, as well a…
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South Italian, Greek, Tarentine
Place made: Apulia, Taranto, South Italy
Mold-made lamp-filler (?) in form of a frog, ca. 200–150 B.C.
Terracotta
h. 5.8 cm., l. 8.5 cm., w. 7.0 cm. (2 5/16 x 3 3/8 x 2 3/4 in.)
Museum purchase, gift of Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence A. Fleischman
y1987-54
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/32876
Plaque with a King Plucking a Flower from the Sacr…
Phoenician
Plaque with a king plucking a lotus flower, first half of the 8th century B.C.
Elephant ivory
9.2 x 5.0 cm (3 5/8 x 1 15/16 in.)
Museum purchase, John Maclean Magie, Class of 1892, and Gertrude Magie Fund
y1956-88
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/28075
Assyrian Relief Plaques in the Princeton Universit…
Left:
Neo- Assyrian
Place made: said to be from Nineveh, Iraq
Relief plaque of a winged demon, late 9th–7th century B.C.
Terracotta
13.12 x 9.32 x 1.37-1.53 cm (5 3/16 x 3 11/16 x 9/16 - 5/8 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Évi Bossányi Loeb in the name of her stepfather, Howard Spencer Levy, in honor of Joel Traitel Loeb, Class of 1937 and Nicolas Howard Loeb, Class of 1981
y1982-94
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/32634
and Right:
Neo- Assyrian
Relief plaque of a fish-man, late 9th–7th century B.C.
Terracotta
11.97 x 5.11 x 1.5 - 1.7 cm (4 11/16 x 2 x 9/16 - 11/16 in.)
Gift of Mrs. Évi Bossányi Loeb in the name of her stepfather, Howard Spencer Levy, in honor of Joel Traitel Loeb, Class of 1937 and Nicolas Howard Loeb, Class of 1981
y1982-95
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/32803
Relief of a Genie from the Palace of Ashurnasirpal…
Relief of a Winged Divinity from the Throne Room (Room B), Northwest Palace of Ashurnasirpal II
Assyrian, Nimrud, 885-859 BC
Gypseous limestone
# Y207
This relief was one of several that decorated the Throne Room of the Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II in his palace at Nimrud, in northern Iraq. Removed in the nineteenth century after its discovery by Sir Austen Henry Layard, the lower half of the figure is still in its original position in the palace, to the left of the throne itself. The winged, human-headed divinity wears a horned cap and a fringed garment embellished with incised floral and geometric patterns. Three daggers, one with an animal-head haft, are tucked in a fold beneath the right arm. The left hand probably held a bucket and the right hand a date-palm spathe for tending the Sacred Tree. Many details of the relief were originally painted black, white, red, and blue. The inscription in the Neo-Assyrian dialect of Akkadian, is written from right to left in cuneiform script. Only the left half of the inscription is preserved, but the full text can be restored because it repeats a standard formula found on many other reliefs. The inscription extols the power and accomplishments of Ashurnasirpal, "the great king, the mighty king, the king of hosts;" "the mighty male who tramples on the neck of his enemies."
Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.
Relief from the Palace of Xerxes at Persepolis
486 – 465 B.C.
Achaemenid
550 - 331 B.C.
Limestone
h. 58.5 cm., w. 28.5 cm. (23 1/16 x 11 1/4 in.)
Place made: Iran / /
Museum purchase, gift of Gordon McCormick, Class of 1917
Object Number: y1949-115
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/art/collections/ancient/search/
This sculpted relief was found at Persepolis, Iran, the ceremonial capital of the Achaemenid Empire (ca. 550-330 BC). It depicts a striding male figure carrying a metal drinking bowl in each hand. The man is identified as a Persian by his distinctive felt cap (kidaris), long-sleeved tunic, and leggings. Originally installed in the royal palace at Persepolis, where the Persian king held audiences for foreign embassies, the relief can be securely dated to the reign of Xerxes I (486-465 BC), who is believed to have overseen the palace's construction. The Persian cup-bearer is only one member of a long procession that ran around the walls of the palace complex. In addition to native Persians and Medes, other participants in the procession represented the many subject nations of the Persian Empire, who were depicted carrying gifts intended for the Great King. The man's raised right leg reflects the original orientation of the slab, which ran alongside a staircase. His posture thus mirrored that of his human counterparts, who climbed the stairs in order to reach the king's audience hall.
Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.
Phoenician Pendant with Birds and Goats in the Tre…
Phoenician
Pendant with birds and goats in a Tree of Life, late 7th–early 6th century B.C.
Gold
8.1 x 4.8 cm (3 3/16 x 1 7/8 in.) h. without chains: 5.6 cm (2 3/16 in.)
Museum purchase, gift of Emily Townsend Vermeule, honorary degree holder of the Class of 1989, and Cornelius Clarkson Vermeule III in memory of Francis F. Adams Comstock, Class of 1919.
1998-10
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/35241
Kernos with Three Attached Jars in the Princeton U…
South Italian, Daunian
Ring-shaped vessel (kernos) with three attached jars: horsemen, lyre-player, ca. 600 – 550 B.C.
Ceramic
h. 14.0 cm., diam. 15.1 cm. (5 1/2 x 5 15/16 in.)
Museum purchase, gift of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
y1990-4
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/33231
Pair of Seated Goddesses in the Princeton Universi…
Pair of Seated Goddesses, Possibly Demeter and Persephone
Greek, Attic, early 5th century BC
Painted terracotta
# 2005-108
Text from the Princeton University Art Museum label.
Seated Female, Possibly Hera in the Princeton Univ…
Greek , Argive
Seated Female Figure, ca. 550–500 B.C.
Terracotta
22.5 x 10.5 x 10.5 cm (8 7/8 x 4 1/8 x 4 1/8 in.)
Museum purchase, Caroline G. Mather Fund
y1948-51
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/23687
Gorgon Antefix in the Princeton University Art Mus…
South Italian , Greek, Tarentine
Antefix with Gorgoneion, ca. 500 – 480 B.C.
Terracotta
h. 17.5 cm., w. 26.0 cm., d. at top with remnant of cover tile 4.0 cm. (6 7/8 x 10 1/4 x 1 9/16 in.)
Museum purchase
y1931-13
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/19902
Articulated Doll with Gold Earrings in the Princet…
Roman
Articulated doll, 4th century A.D.
Bone with gold earrings
h. 10.7 cm., w. 3.5 cm., d. 3.3 cm. (4 3/16 x 1 3/8 x 1 5/16 in.)
Gift of Gillett G. Griffin
2002-30
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/40750
Fragment of a Pedimental Plaque with a Centaur in…
East Greek
attributed to the Aphrodite Group
Oil bottle in the form of a Siren, ca. 550-525 B.C.
Ceramic
h. 13.1 cm., w. 19.7 cm., diam. 9.2 cm. (5 3/16 x 7 3/4 x 3 5/8 in.)
Museum Purchase, Gift of John B. Elliott, Class of 1951
y1989-31
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/33104
Ring-shaped Askos with a Deer Head Spout in the Pr…
Etruscan (Faliscan)
Ring-shaped askos with deer's head spout, mid 4th century B.C
Ceramic
h. 8.7 cm., diam. 13.4 cm. (3 7/16 x 5 1/4 in.)
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr., Memorial Collection Fund
y1994-2
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/33940
White-ground Alabastron Attributed to the Syriskos…
Greek , Attic
attributed to the Syriskos Painter
White-ground alabastron: Amazon, ca. 480–470 B.C.
Ceramic
h. 14.8 cm, diam. 3.5 cm (5 13/16 x 1 3/8 in.)
Museum purchase, Carl Otto von Kienbusch Jr. Memorial Collection Fund
y1984-12
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/32602
Black Figure Lekythos Attributed to the Taleides P…
Greek, Attic
attributed to the Taleides Painter
Black-figure lekythos: man and boy having sex, ca. 550–540 B.C.
Ceramic
h. 22.8 cm., diam. 6.9 cm. (9 x 2 11/16 in.)
mouth: diam. 5.0 cm.; foot: diam. 6.9 cm.
Museum purchase
y1986-53
Text from: artmuseum.princeton.edu/collections/objects/33138
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