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The Ashmolean also figures prominently in several episodes of the successor series Lewis, particularly the episode "Point of Vanishing" where the painting The Hunt in the Forest (c. 1470) is a key plot element; the characters visit the painting at the museum and are instructed on its features by an art expert before solving the case.
It is held in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, north of Abingdon. [4] The Abingdon Sword has silver mounts inlaid with niello in the Trewhiddle style. [5] The sword's guard has interlaced animal motifs. [3] Ornamentation includes symbols of the Evangelists. The pommel of the sword has two animal heads for decoration.
It is perhaps the best-known painting in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, England. [1] The painting is an early example of the effective use of perspective in Renaissance art, with the hunt participants, including people, horses, dogs and deer, disappearing into the dark forest in the distance. It was Uccello's last known painting before his death ...
Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia, Ashmolean Museum. Landscape with Ascanius Shooting the Stag of Sylvia is a painting of 1682 in oil on canvas by Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée, traditionally just "Claude" in English), a painter from the Duchy of Lorraine who spent his career in Rome.
The Jewel viewed from the front, with the top in shadow. The Alfred Jewel is a piece of Anglo-Saxon goldsmithing work made of enamel and quartz enclosed in gold. It was discovered in 1693, in North Petherton, Somerset, England and is now one of the most popular exhibits at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.
A Converted British Family Sheltering a Christian Missionary from the Persecution of the Druids is a painting by the English artist William Holman Hunt that was exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1850 and is now in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. It was a companion to John Everett Millais's Christ in the House of His Parents. Both artists sought ...
People associated with the Ashmolean Museum (2 C, 48 P) Pages in category "Ashmolean Museum" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
The Kish tablet is a limestone tablet found at the site of the ancient Sumerian city of Kish in modern Tell al-Uhaymir, Babylon Governorate, Iraq.A plaster cast of the tablet is in the collection of the Ashmolean Museum, while the original is housed at the Iraq Museum in Baghdad.