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Gold Marilyn Monroe is a print by Andy Warhol.
(1958), Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC.]]
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Gold Marilyn Monroe is a 1962 painting by Andy Warhol. Executed in silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on canvas, the large painting depicts the famous actress Marilyn Monroe, who committed suicide earlier that year.
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Autoportrait (Tamara in a Green Bugatti), self portrait by Tamara de Lempicka
The image of Marilyn Monroe comes from a publicity still for her 1953 movie Niagara.[1]
References[edit]
Dyer, Jennifer. "The Metaphysics of the Mundane: Understanding Andy Warhol's Serial Imagery." Artibus et Historiae 25, no. 49 (2004): 33-47.
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- ^ Dyer, "Metaphysics of the Mundane," 34.
The Golden Pectoral from Tolstaya Mogila
also spelled Tovsta Mohyla is an ancient Scythian treasure found in a burial kurgan by the same name in 1971 by the Ukrainian archaeologist Boris Mozolevski. The Tolstaya Mogila burial mound, meaning fat barrow, is located in present day southern Ukraine near the province of Dnipropetrovsk.[1]
The ancient Scythians were a semi-nomadic people that lived around the northern area of the Black Sea with territory that stretched up into the Ural and Altia Mountain region. There culture is thought to have lasted almost 1000 years, during which time they traded regularly with many Mediterranean and Asian cultures including the ancient Greeks, the ancient Persians and the ancient Chinese.[2]
The golden pectoral, or breastplate is thought to have been commissioned by a Scythian chieftain via an ancient Greek metalworking shop located, probably, in Pantikapaion which is in present day Crimea. The pectoral is made of solid 24 karat gold, with a diameter of 12 inches and weighs just over 2.5 pounds.[3]
The pectoral is crescent shaped and can be stylistically broken down into three sections.[4] The top section, which is widely agreed to be the main focus of the piece, reflects on Scythian daily life.[5]
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- ^ Kuzych and Bekhtir, "The golden pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla,".
- ^ Kuzych and Bekhtir, "The golden pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla,".
- ^ Kuzych and Bekhtir, "The golden pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla,".
- ^ Pidvysotska, Olena and Samina, Tetyana, "SCYTHIAN KING'S GOLD PECTORAL", Ukraine Magazine, Kiev, 1998. Retrieved on 24 November 2015.
- ^ Kuzych and Bekhtir, "The golden pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla,".
References[edit]
Ingert Kuzych and Volodymyr Bekhtir. “The golden pectoral from Tovsta Mohyla,” FOCUS ON PHILATELY (November 7, 2009), accessed February 24, 2015, http:// ukrweekly.com/old/archive/1999/459929.shtml.