Curator

Art Institute Chicago
Harvard art museum
My Exhibition

Excited masses of people crowd the inside an elaborate church for a candle lighting ceremony

The Miracle of the Sacred Fire, Church of the Holy Sepulchre, 1827 - 1910

William Holman Hunt

Kay Khusraw Reviews His Troops (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Kay Khusraw Reviews His Troops (painting, verso; text, recto), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Persian

Story of Kay Khusraw Reviewing his Army, and Tus Leading the Iranians into Turan (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Story of Kay Khusraw Reviewing his Army, and Tus Leading the Iranians into Turan (text, recto and verso), folio from a manuscript of the Shahnama by Firdawsi

Persian

Macehead

Macehead

Iranian

Sestertius of Claudius, Rome

Sestertius of Claudius, Rome, r. 41 - 54 CE

Claudius

Naval Weapons Testing Base (abandoned in 1974 because of total contamination) The Salton Sea: 45 square miles, California

Naval Weapons Testing Base (abandoned in 1974 because of total contamination) The Salton Sea: 45 square miles, California, 1926 -

Barbara Norfleet

Knife Handle in the Shape of the Foreparts of a Dog

Knife Handle in the Shape of the Foreparts of a Dog

Roman

Reproduction of a Mycenean Dagger

Reproduction of a Mycenean Dagger, 1850 - 1924; 1885 - 1939

Emile Gilliéron or son

Dagger

Dagger

Unidentified Artist

Tanged arrow-head

Tanged arrow-head

Dagger Blade with Four Rivets

Dagger Blade with Four Rivets

Cycladic

Dagger Pommel with Runic Inscription

Dagger Pommel with Runic Inscription

Anglo-Saxon

Flanged Axe Head

Flanged Axe Head

Irish

Palstave

Palstave

European

Socketed Axe Head

Socketed Axe Head

Irish

Flanged Axe Head

Flanged Axe Head

Irish

Large Dagger

Large Dagger

Anatolian

Small Dagger

Small Dagger

Anatolian

Palstave

Palstave

European

Shaft-Hole Axe with Boar's Head

Shaft-Hole Axe with Boar's Head

Anatolian