"You start saying, 'Who were they, and what are their personalities?'"
Curator Marsha Hill on an Egyptian statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon.
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Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world. Each episode is interpreted by a Museum photographer.
Photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr.
Light-induced near infrared luminescence image captured by John K. Delaney, Ph.D., Andrew W. Mellon Senior Imaging Scientist, and Paolo Ricciardi, Ph.D., Samuel H. Kress Fellow, Scientific Research Department, Conservation DCL, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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Curator Marsha Hill on an Egyptian statue of two men and a boy that served as a domestic icon.
Explore this object:
https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/544683
Throughout 2013, The Met invited curators from across the Museum to each talk about one artwork that changed the way they see the world. Each episode is interpreted by a Museum photographer.
Photography by Joseph Coscia, Jr.
Light-induced near infrared luminescence image captured by John K. Delaney, Ph.D., Andrew W. Mellon Senior Imaging Scientist, and Paolo Ricciardi, Ph.D., Samuel H. Kress Fellow, Scientific Research Department, Conservation DCL, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
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