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May 5, 2024 · Collection. Although the Ancient Art collection is relatively small, it contains a number of rare works of high quality and importance that form the basis of an introduction to the art of the ancient Mediterranean from Egypt, to the Near East, Greece, and Rome. They provide, in a coherent, aesthetically pleasing manner, splendid examples of the ...
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6 days ago · This site is a collaboration of the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media (George Mason University) and American Social History Project (City University of New York), supported by grants from the Florence Gould Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
May 5, 2024 · May 5, 2024 (2 pm Pacific Time, live at the Legion of Honor, San Francisco) Cosponsored by the Ancient Art Council of the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco. Lecture is free and open to the public. It is also a hybrid program. IN PERSON: Gunn Theater, 100 – 34th Avenue, Lincoln Park, San Francisco, CA 94121. Seating is limited and unassigned.
May 3, 2024 · The painting came to the Legion of Honor through a matrilineal descent. The little girl in the portrait survived into adulthood and passed the painting on to her daughter, Maria Felice, who married into the Marchetti family. It remained in the hands of that family’s descendants for centuries before being purchased by a private individual in 1990.
2 days ago · Soldiers from the Hungarian Defence Forces form a guard of honour at a welcome ceremony for US president George W. Bush's visit to Hungary, 2006. A guard of honour (Commonwealth English), honor guard (American English) or ceremonial guard, is a group of people, typically drawn from the military, appointed to perform ceremonial duties – for example, to receive or guard a head of state or ...
1 day ago · The awards and decorations of the United States Armed Forces include various medals, service ribbons, ribbon devices, and specific badges which recognize military service and personal accomplishments of members of the U.S. Armed Forces. Such awards are a means to outwardly display the highlights of a service member's career.
