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Exhibition
The African Origin of Civilization
Through January 19, 2025
Now on view at
The Met Fifth Avenue
in
Gallery 136
Free with Museum admission
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Overview
Africa Installations Across The Met
Exhibition Objects
Paired Works
Statue of Gudea, named “Gudea, the man who built the temple, may his life be long”
Neo-Sumerian
ca. 2090 BCE
Seated Chief (Mwanangana) Playing Sanza
Chokwe artist
19th century (before 1869)
Marble statue of a kouros (youth)
Greek, Attic
ca. 590–580 BCE
Mangaaka Power Figure (Nkisi N’Kondi)
Kongo artist and nganga, Yombe group
Second half of the 19th century
Processional Cross
Northern Highlands region artist
13th–14th century
Processional Cross
Northern Highlands region artist
14th–15th century
Processional Cross
Central or Northern Highlands region artist
15th century
Processional Cross
Ezra (Ethiopian, 1460–1522)
ca. 1500
Triple Crucifix
Kongo artist
16th–17th century (central figure); 18th–19th century (top and bottom figures)
Crucifix
Kongo artist
16th–17th century
Cross with Saint Anthony of Padua
Kongo artist
16th–18th century (pendant figure); 19th century (cross)
The Holy Family with Saints Anne and Catherine of Alexandria
Jusepe de Ribera (called Lo Spagnoletto) (Spanish, Játiva 1591–1652 Naples)
1648
Gwandansu
Bamana artist
15th–first half 20th century
Aristotle with a Bust of Homer
Rembrandt (Rembrandt van Rijn) (Dutch, Leiden 1606–1669 Amsterdam)
1653
Sculptural Bust from a Reliquary Ensemble (The Great Bieri)
Fang-Betsi artist
19th century
Joséphine-Éléonore-Marie-Pauline de Galard de Brassac de Béarn (1825–1860), Princesse de Broglie
Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (French, Montauban 1780–1867 Paris)
1851–53
Female Figure from an Obu (house of images)
Igbo artist
19th century
Riga (Ceremonial Robe)
Amadou Ahejo, Kano, Nigeria
ca. 1941
Funey-soo Window Frame
Mande blacksmith
19th–early 20th century
Study For Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, or The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks
Samuel Jennings (American, 1789–1834)
ca. 1791–92
Ntadi (commemorative figure) of a Seated Male Leader
Kongo artist
Late 18th–19th century
The Terrace at Vernonnet
Pierre Bonnard (French, Fontenay-aux-Roses 1867–1947 Le Cannet)
1939
Veranda Post: Equestrian Figure and Female Caryatid
Olowe of Ise (Nigerian, born Efon-Alaiye, ca. 1873–1938)
before 1938
Panel Ornaments for Ceremonial Sword and Sheath (Udamalore)
Yoruba artist
19th–20th century
Ceremonial Sword and Sheath (Udamalore)
Yoruba artist
19th–20th century
Ceremonial Sword (Udamalore)
Yoruba artist
17th–19th century
Ceremonial ewer
Portuguese
ca. 1520–50
Leopard Aquamanile
Edo artist
16th–19th century
Leopard Aquamanile
Edo artist
16th–19th century
Saint Ignatius Loyola with saints and martyrs of the Jesuit order
Alessandro Algardi (Italian, Bologna 1598–1654 Rome)
Probably cast by Giovanni Andrea Lorenzani
second half of the 17th century
Plaque: Two Portuguese Merchants
Edo artist
16th–17th century
Salt
French, Saint-Porchaire or Paris
mid-16th century
Saltcellar with Portuguese Figures
Master of the Heraldic Ship (Court of Owo or Benin, Nigerian)
ca. 1525–1600
Lidded Saltcellar
Sapi-Portuguese artist
15th–16th century
Bala
Malinke
19th century
Figure: Pair of Balafon Players
Dogon artist
18th–early 19th century
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Dates
Through January 19, 2025
The Met Fifth Avenue
Gallery 136
Free with Museum admission
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