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The costumes and repertoire of French comedians was distinct from Watteau’s favored Italian commedia dell’arte. This painting’s principal male figure is dressed in an old-fashioned, formal costume that in the eighteenth century would have been appropriate for a subject from antiquity. Typical of Watteau, however, the scene is entirely imaginary and does not align with any known opera or play. The entrance from backstage of Crispin, a character from the commedia dell’arte, underscores the improbability of the scene. Infrared reflectography shows a preparatory underdrawing on the canvas, probably by a specialist architecture painter, a practice Watteau often employed to create such stagelike spaces.
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This halberd was a long-shafted weapon commonly used in the 15th century. The origin of this halberd is Connecticut, United States. The blade looks like a weird two-sided axe, with a large spike pointing out at the top. The handle is wooden(brown) and the blade is made of steel(silver). This particular halberd seems very well kept, with only a few darker spots indicating where the weapon has lost its shine over time.
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The painting is a self-portrait of the artist Adélaïde Labille-Guiard with her two students, Marie Marguerite Carreaux de Rosemond and Marie Gabrielle Capet. It shows Labille-Guiard dressed in an elegant gown and hat. She sits in front of a canvas on an easel, paintbrush and palette in hand. Standing behind her are her two students watching her work.
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A painting of the Greek muse Polyhymnia, holding a scroll and sitting with a stringed instrument next to her
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- Were rare and precious in Europe due to limited Western contact with the “isolated island country.”
- These types of items were often repurposed and refurbished with the addition of expensive gold or gilded mounts.
- There were thought to enhance their beauty and significantly increased their value.
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Faustin-Élie Soulouque created this elaborate ceremonial sword. He ruled as Haitian Emperor Faustin I from 1849 to 1959. He was gifted the sword by The Grand Masonic Lodge of Haiti in 1850. It was later gifted from Faustin to Henry Delafield. The Delafield passed this heirloom along until it was bequeathed to the MET in 2012.
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This art piece is one of the design/presentation drawings donated to The Metropolitan Museum of Art by William Brewster when Brewster & Co. disbanded in 1923 while he was one of the museum's trustees. This is carriage design no. 3251.
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From Indonesia (Java) culture
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This is a set of small jade sculptures of the twelve Chinese zodiac animals. They are all carved out of green jade and were created during the Qing Dynasty. The twelve animals are the rat, ox, tiger, rabbit, dragon, snake, horse, ram, monkey, rooster, dog, and pig.
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This intriguing cape was exhibited at the Vienna Universal Exhibition in 1873. Its elaborate knitting techniques and unique overall appearance enforce the importance of handmade crafts and decorations which were becoming progressively important nearing the end of the 19th century.
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A digital collection of African American sheet music from the 18th century to the present day. It consists of approximately 250,000 items selected from the Sheet Music Collection at Brown University, as well as links providing historical context. This collection provides insight into the livelihoods and perspectives of African Americans in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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It’s a WordPress website that hosts information about St. Pauls cathedral in 1622, including sermons of the priests for special occasions. It includes digital images of the cathedral as well as a “digital flyby” of the site. The website also includes information about acoustics and the historical context of the cathedral.
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The website contains both primary sources (trial transcripts, evidence, photographs, testimonies, personal documents, maps, arrest warrants, etc.) and secondary sources (summaries, timelines, biographies of those involved, videos of reenactments, etc.) having to do with famous historical trials. The website informs viewers of various famous trials throughout world history in the years from 399 BC to 2021.
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The September 11 Digital Archive uses digital media to collect, preserve, and display the history of the terrorist attacks on the United States of America in 2001. It consists of first-hand accounts, emails, phone calls, text messages, photos, and songs that help piece together the timeline of events.
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This site aims to be a complete and annotated archive of John Milton’s works (poetry and some prose).
The reading room offers poetry (Paradise Lost, Paradise Regain'd, Samson Agonistes) as well as prose and epigrams in Latin. For those works in Latin, the site offers translations.
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Analysis of articles from the University of Colorado Boulder newspaper El Diario De La Gente, written by a Chicanx group of students, showing connections between their articles and the struggles that the Chicanx community were facing.
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This database contains historical records such as letters, family stories, memoirs, and photographs to give us a broader and deeper understanding of the migration of Latinx people to Iowa. It is organized by tabs that have different sections of information in each. In one of the tabs, there is an interactive map with a sliding time frame bar to visualize the growth of Latinx communities in Iowa. This project is a helpful resource for anyone looking to learn about the Latinx community’s migration to Iowa as it provides a broad spectrum of information in one collective database.
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Baldwin’s Paris is an interactive map with pinpoints of James Baldwin’s alluded to locations throughout the city of Paris. The markers on the map show exactly where these locations are mentioned in 10 of his published works and it has the specific quotations of these references.
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An interactive map that pinpoints each instance that an individual was killed by a police officer in 2020. The map also notes that so far in 2021, 745 people have been killed. Each pinpoint can be clicked on to view information about the killing and sources to support. There are several other charts and graphs that track police brutality over the years. Other tabs allow the viewer to compare data between cities and states and view national trends. One may also read extensive information on how the data was collected and why it is important to continue to investigate police officers.
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What is it?
Making the History of 1989: The Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe utilizes Omeka to highlight the events leading up to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the decline of Communism in Eastern Europe.
What does it have?
The website showcases primary sources (such as propaganda posters, government documents and videos), scholarly interviews and essays from the years leading up to 1989 to provide context and information about the fall of Communism. The site also has case studies analyzing specific sources, such as Soviet health posters, as well as detailed lesson plans and teaching modules for classroom use.
What does it do?
The site provides various resources to understand political, social and cultural contexts within Eastern Europe that contributed to the fall of Communism, as well as providing numerous lesson plans for teachers to use.
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A record of undocumented plays over the course of 100 years, from 1570 to the 1670s, that would have been lost otherwise.
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It helps viewers grasp the history of the Jamestown settlement and its people (English settlers, slaves, and Native Americans) through the use of various primary and secondary sources and other things, like timelines and maps.
-Meeghan, Lauren, Lillah
