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🎨⏳📜Nautilus Cup, Chicago Art Institute
During the Age of Discovery, European artists were inspired by the exotic materials suddenly available to them. Goldsmiths seized on the opportunity to include wondrous and seemingly magical materials -
During the Age of Discovery, European artists were inspired by the exotic materials suddenly available to them. Goldsmiths seized on the opportunity to include wondrous and seemingly magical materials -
-including coconuts, ivory, ostrich eggs, and, in this case, a nautilus shell from the Indian Ocean - into works of art that celebrated both nature and artifice. These types of objects were also popular with collectors during the 19th c, when the mounts on this cup were reworked.
Important DM: A7: Absolutely nothing. Furloughed since late March and since then one email and one phonecall. That's it. Not even a text, not even a friendly hello. I'm so many shades of emotional because of it. How can you do this to people? #MuseumHour - Z
I'm disgusted by this. What a vile way to treat your staff. I honestly don't know how managers or directors of an institution could do this. -S
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