The Field Museum of Natural History: Reliefs panels and Caryatids by Henry Hering

 

The Field Museum of Natural History

The skull and the ankh really caught my eyes...
I had learnt about ankh only a few days back. It's an ancient Egyptian hierogyyphic character that reads "life".

 

Anthropology - by Henry Hering,

Relief panel: Winged female figure holding a human skull and an Ankh

 

 



 

 

Geology - by Henry Hering

 Relief panel: Winged female figure holding a globe

with North and South American continents and a torch representing fire

 

 

 

Caryatids - by Henry Hering

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I have yet to photograph relief panels "Botany" and "Zoology"

 

 

For a very interesting read about the Field Museum architecture.. click here

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New York City [Guggenheim Museum]

 "Let each man exercise the art he knows"

- Aristophanes [ 422 B.C.]

This museum designed by Frank Lloyd Wright

is the gift of Solomon R. Guggenheim

This seal is at the entrance of the Guggenheim Museum, New York City.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Museum of Non-Objective Painting

Desinged by Frank Lloyd Wright

 Opened: October 21, 1959

Address: 1071 Fifth Avenue [at 89th Street]
New York, NY 10128

These images were taken on July 2, 2011. For some reason, mostly "paucity of time",  which is a better way of admitting to "laziness", I never published them. So here they are, one year later..

The skylight at the center of the museum..

RELATED LINKS..

Trip to NY Summer Vacation, 2011..   click here..

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