Antiquities Exhibits

“Queen Nefertari’s Egypt,” a dazzling exhibition showcasing ancient Egypt’s “most beautiful queen,” opens at the Kimbell Art Museum Dec. 6. Called “the one for whom the sun shines,” Nefertari was the favorite wife of powerful Pharaoh Ramesses II. The exhibition explores the lives of Queen Nefertari and other women of ancient Egypt through 230 objects, showing the richness of Egyptian culture 3,000 years ago. Objects from temples, tombs, palaces, and the artisan village of Deir el Medina are on display at the Kimbell through March 14, 2021. Read more about it: https://www.focusdailynews.com/queen-nefertaris-egypt-opens-at-kimbell-art-museum/ Image: Statuette of Ahmose-Nefertai from Dier el-Medina, New Kingdom 18th dynasty (1539-1292 BCE) courtesy of the Museo Egizio, Turin, Italy 

Ancient Greek, Roman, Asian, American and Mesopotamian Art at the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas. The ancient collection of the Kimbell Art Museum spans the period from 3200 BCE to 1000 CE and includes sculpture, mosaics, utilitarian objects , funerary art and religious works that span the globe. The Kimbell's select holdings of antiquities range from the Egyptian Old Kingdom of the third millennium B.C.E, through ancie nt Assyria, Greece, and Rome, and to the Early Christian Church in the fifth century. Ancient American art is represented by Maya works in ceramic, stone, shell, and jade and includes Olmec, Zapotec, and Aztec sculpture as well as pieces from the Conte and Wari cultures. Ancient works from China, Korea, Japan, India, Nepal, Tibet, Cambodia, and Thailand comprise the ancient Asian art on view including sculptures, paintings, bronzes, ceramics, and works of decorative art. Image: Head of a Ewe 3200 BCE probably from a full sculpture of a sheep ...