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The Brunei Museum is located in Kota Batu, approximately 4.5 kilometers (3 miles) from the capital's city centre, [3] [4] along Jalan Kota Batu. [5] It is part of a museum complex that includes the Kota Batu Archaeological Park, [3] Malay Technology Museum and the Brunei Darussalam Maritime Museum.
Mycenaean stirrup jar from Ras Shamra Syria, 1400–1300 BC. An artifact [a] or artefact (British English) is a general term for an item made or given shape by humans, such as a tool or a work of art, especially an object of archaeological interest. [1]
Popo Iskandar was born in Garut, West Java. His father, R.H. Natamihardja is a retired bank clerk. Since childhood his father expected Popo to become an architect.
Hans Hofmann, Pompeii, oil on canvas, 84.25” x 52.25", 1959. Hofmann's art is generally distinguished by its rigorous concern with pictorial structure and unity, development of spatial illusion through the "push and pull" of color, shape and placement, and use of bold, often primary color for expressive means. [4]
The Museum of Fine Arts and Ceramics (Indonesian: Museum Seni Rupa dan Keramik) is a museum in Jakarta, Indonesia. The museum is dedicated especially to the display of traditional fine art and ceramics of Indonesia. The museum is located in the east side of Fatahillah Square, near Jakarta History Museum and Wayang Museum.
Venus de Milo, at the Louvre. Art history is, briefly, the history of art—or the study of a specific type of objects created in the past. [1]Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today, art history examines broader aspects of visual culture, including the various visual and conceptual outcomes ...
Selangor Museum was the de facto national museum pre-independence. [4] Selangor Museum was established in 1887 as an amateur affair by colonial civil servants. [5] It was taken over by the colonial government, and following the formation of the Federated Malay States in 1896, in 1904 it was administratively merged with the Perak Museum in Taiping as the Federated Malay States Museums under ...
Maria Tumarkin describes Hofmann's review writing as "masterful" and "convention-eviscerating". [19] Philip Oltermann remarks on the "savagery" with which Hofmann "can wield a hatchet", stating (with reference to Hofmann's antipathy towards Stefan Zweig) that: "Like a Soho drunk stumbling into the National Portrait Gallery in search of a good scrap, Hofmann has battered posthumous reputations ...