Smarthistory: The Blog

A podcast by two newcomers to Smarthistory! We’re very excited to welcome Monica Hahn and Brian Seymour!

Great Lyre from the “King’s Grave,” ca. 2650-2550 B.C., Gold, silver, lapis lazuli, shell, bitumen and wood (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology)

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Another podcast with our new Smarthistory Colleague Francesca Tronchin!

Unknown, Mixing Vessel with Odysseus Escaping from the Cyclops’s Cave, 550-500 B.C.E.

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Gordon Bunshaft for Skidmore Owings & Merrill, Lever House, 390 Park Avenue, NYC, 1951-52

Speakers: Drs. Matthew A. Postal and Steven Zucker

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René Magritte, The Treachery of Images (Ceci n’est pas une pipe), 1929 (LACMA)

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