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The Princeton University Art Museum (PUAM) is the Princeton University gallery of art, located in Princeton, New Jersey. With a collecting history that began in 1755, the museum was formally established in 1882, and now houses over 117,000 works of art ranging from antiquity to the contemporary period.
A Princeton Companion. Princeton: Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-04654-9. JSTOR j.ctt13x0zx2. Kelleher, Patrick J. (1982). Living With Modern Sculpture: The John B. Putnam, Jr., Memorial Collection. Princeton: Princeton University Art Museum in association with Princeton University Press. ISBN 978-0-691-03897-1.
The Princeton Vase is a noted example of Late Classic Maya ceramics in codex style. It was illegally looted and is now held by Princeton University Art Museum . Originally serving as a drinking vessel for chocolate , it depicts a throne room occupied by an aged deity, wearing an owl headdress, and by five young women surrounding him.
From 1970 to 1973, he served as Chair of Princeton's Department of Art and Archaeology. [2] He was a curator at the Art Museum of Princeton University for Asian art, and helped build the John B. Elliott Collection of Chinese Calligraphy, considered one of the best outside of China. [2] In 1971, he was named Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Art ...
Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey , Princeton is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution .
The Hedgehog and the Fox is a late Minimalist sculpture of Richard Serra, installed between Peyton and Fine halls and the football stadium at Princeton University in 2000. It was commissioned for the university by Princeton graduate Peter Joseph in honour of his children some years before his death in 1998.
The Princeton University Art Museum displays another original Peale painting, George Washington at the Battle of Princeton, which was commissioned in 1783 by the Trustees of the College of New Jersey, which is now Princeton University, the year that Princeton University Faculty Room served as the temporary U.S. capital. That painting, which ...
Patricia Fortini Brown (born 16 November 1936) is Professor Emerita of Art & Archaeology at Princeton University. Venice and its empire, from the late middle ages through the early modern period, has been the primary site of her scholarly research, with a focus on how works of art and architecture can materialize and sum up significant aspects ...