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- Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
- SISG_050723_008.JPG: Funerary relief bust. Syria, Palmyra, Roman Empire, ca 231. Limestone.
The inscriptions carved on this relief bust, written in Aramaic, identify the figure as a woman named Haliphat and date her death to the year 231. The bust is from Palmyra, a city in southern Syria that flourished during the Roman Empire as a caravan oasis on the trade route linking the Mediterranean with West and Central Asia.
Many members of Palmyra's prosperous merchant class commissioned such funerary busts depicting fashionably dressed individuals; women often wear elaborate jewelry. The busts covered the openings of burial compartments in family tombs located in the desert outside Palmyra.
- SISG_050723_024.JPG: A Virgin
1892-93
by Abbott Handerson Thayer
Oil on canvas
Thayer began this group portrait of his children, Gladys, Mary, and Gerald, soon after the untimely death of their mother in 1891. He originally envisioned the central figure, Mary (who temporarily took charge of Gladys and Gerald), as Flora, the Greek goddess of flowers, but as the work progressed he decided to make her a Greek "Victory" figure instead, with clouds billowing behind her like wings.
The model for Mary's dramatic stance was a famous Hellenistic sculpture in the Louvre, the Nike of Somathrace (second century BC), known as the Winged Victory. Thayer would have seen that magnificent sculpture while he was a student in Paris during the late 1870's, when it was reinstalled at the head of the grand staircase. A related inspiration was the Sherman Monument, by Thayer's friend the sculpture Augustus Saint-Gaudens (1848-1907). Commissioned in 1891 and unveiled in 1903 at the Grand Army Plaza, New York City, the monument features a powerfully winged female figure, also modeled on the Winged Victory, leading the commander of the Union army into battle.
Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919), founder of the Freer Gallery of Art, purchased Thayer's Virgin in 1893 and hung the painting above the landing in the stair hall of his Detroit residence where, like the Winged Victory in the Louvre, it could be admired from various vantage points. Freer acknowledged Thayer's visual allusion in 1910 by ordering a plaster cast of the Winged Victory to be displayed beside A Virgin in an exhibition at the University of Michigan, along with other important works of Asian and American art from his collection.
- SISG_050723_082.JPG: Mourning Attendant.
China, Tang dynasty, 7th century
Limestone
Tang emperors and nobles were buried in elaborately constructed tombs marked by monumental stone sculptures above ground and lavish furnishings below. Earthenware funerary figures formed a large and important component of the tomb furnishings, but ones in stone, like this are, rare. The sculpture presents a strikingly sensitive depiction of a servant hunched forward, his brows deeply furrowed, eyes downcast, and lips downturned in mourning. The Tang sculptor's ability to describe details realistically is extended even to the attendant's robe, with its collar buttoned at one shoulder, tied headdress, soft boots, and belt tucked under the back.
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