These small Medieval ivory chess pieces from the Isle of Lewis are amazing sculpture.
Radically stylized, fiercely emotive, and at a safe remove of 900 years, they're pretty funny too.
There's a lot to learn from them, regardless of what kind of art you make.
On loan from the British Museum to the Met, the show is called “The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen From the Isle of Lewis,” It's presented in the perfect setting of the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s citadel for medieval art.
The Game of Kings exhibition is up until the 22 of April 2012. It includes other chess pieces — Islamic and medieval — and carved bone objects from the Met’s collection.
Radically stylized, fiercely emotive, and at a safe remove of 900 years, they're pretty funny too.
There's a lot to learn from them, regardless of what kind of art you make.
On loan from the British Museum to the Met, the show is called “The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen From the Isle of Lewis,” It's presented in the perfect setting of the Cloisters, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s citadel for medieval art.
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| Romance, a lap dog, and a game of chess? |
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| Carved from walrus ivory. |
1 comment:
Oh my. I LOVE these little guys. I think I covet them.
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