Gallery
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A Mesopotamian lapis lazuli pendant circa 2900 BC.
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A 11 cm (4.3 in)-long lapis lazuli dove studded with gold pegs. Elamite. Dated 1200 BC from Susa, Iran
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Carved lapis lazuli mountain scene, from the Chinese Qing Dynasty (1644–1912).
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An elephant carving on high-quality lapis lazuli, that includes gold-colored pyrite, is a rare example of Mughal inspired art. (length: 8 cm (3.1 in))
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Close-up of the lapis lazuli inlays in the 25th-century BC Statue of Ebih-Il
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)