LaurieAnnie's photos with the keyword: game

Title: The Chess Players Artist: Liberale da Verona (Italian, Verona ca. 1445–1527/29 Verona) Date: ca. 1475 Medium: Tempera on wood Dimensions: Overall 13 3/4 x 16 1/4 in. (34.9 x 41.3 cm); painted surface 13 1/8 x 15 7/8 in. (33.3 x 40.3 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Maitland F. Griggs Collection, Bequest of Maitland F. Griggs, 1943 Accession Number: 43.98.8 This and its companion panel are from the front of a chest (cassone) and show two episodes from an unidentified story, or novella. In one, a youth is smitten by a maiden who appears at a window and seems to gesture for him to join her inside. In the other, they engage in an erotically charged game of chess where she is about to lose. Both were common themes in the amatory literature of the Renaissance. The figures’ bleached blond, frizzy hair was the height of fashion in fifteenth-century Siena. Liberale was a brilliant illuminator and worked on choirbooks in Siena between 1467 and 1476. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/436884

The Royal Game of Ur Object type: game-piece Museum number: 1928,1009.379.a Title (series): The Royal Game of Ur Description: Dark grey stone gaming counter with five inlaid white spots; circular. Culture/period: Early Dynastic III Date: 2600BC Findspot: Excavated/Findspot: Ur; (Asia,Iraq,South Iraq,Ur (city - archaic)) Materials: stone Technique: inlaid Dimensions: Diameter: 0.87 inches Depth: 0.13 inches Bibliography: Aruz & Wallenfels 2003a no. 53b, p. 101. Exhibition history: Exhibited: 2003 5 May-17 Aug, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'Art of the First Cities' Acquisition name: Division of Finds: Department of Antiquities of Iraq Excavated by: Sir Leonard Woolley Acquisition date: 1928 Acquisition notes: Objects allotted to the British Museum from the Ur excavations, season 1926-1927. Department: Middle East Text from: www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=368653

Title: Terracotta pelike (wine jar) Medium; Technique: Terracotta; black-figure Culture: Greek, Attic Period: Archaic Date: ca. 520 B.C. Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Plousios Painter Dimensions: H. 12 1/16 in. (30.7 cm) Classification: Vases Credit Line: Gift of Walter Bareiss, 1968 Accession Number: 68.27 Description: Obverse, two men playing board game Reverse, flute player between two athletes Introduced by red-figure artists, the pelike was adopted as well by their black-figure counterparts. The subject here is a further modification of the theme of Ajax and Achilles gaming (compare hydria 56.171.29). Two men sit at a three-legged table playing a board game, as indicated by their gestures. A flute case and a lyre hanging on the wall above them suggest that the men are professional musicians taking a break. The implied comparison with the Homeric heroes is amusing. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Title: Terracotta pelike (wine jar) Medium; Technique: Terracotta; black-figure Culture: Greek, Attic Period: Archaic Date: ca. 520 B.C. Artist or Maker: Attributed to the Plousios Painter Dimensions: H. 12 1/16 in. (30.7 cm) Classification: Vases Credit Line: Gift of Walter Bareiss, 1968 Accession Number: 68.27 Description: Obverse, two men playing board game Reverse, flute player between two athletes Introduced by red-figure artists, the pelike was adopted as well by their black-figure counterparts. The subject here is a further modification of the theme of Ajax and Achilles gaming (compare hydria 56.171.29). Two men sit at a three-legged table playing a board game, as indicated by their gestures. A flute case and a lyre hanging on the wall above them suggest that the men are professional musicians taking a break. The implied comparison with the Homeric heroes is amusing. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Folding Game Board Date: 15th century Geography: Made in, Venice, Italy Culture: Italian Medium: Bone, wood, horn, stain and gilding over wood core with metal mounts Dimensions: Overall (closed): 16 5/8 x 9 15/16 x 2 9/16 in. (42.2 x 25.2 x 6.5 cm) Overall (opened): 1 1/4 x 16 5/8 x 19 5/8 in. (3.2 x 42.2 x 49.9 cm) Classification: Ivories-Bone Credit Line: Gift of The Salgo Trust for Education, New York, in memory of Nicolas M. Salgo, 2010 Accession Number: 2010.109.4 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Collections/search-the-collections/1700...

Walrus Ivory Chess Piece(?) in the Form of a King Carved in Germany (Cologne), about 1350-1400 Accession # 2000.153 Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Pair of Seated Figures Playing Liubo Han dynasty (206 BC- 220 AD), 1st century BC- 1st century AD Earthenware with pigment Accession # 1992.165.23 Liubo Board and Pieces Han dynasty (206 BC- 220 AD), 1st century BC- 1st century AD Earthenware with pigment; bone Accession # 1994.285 A popular game in the Han dynasty, liubo involves two players who gamble using dice, counters, gaming pieces, and a marked board. The pottery figures exhibited in this case, together with the daily utensils, architectural models, and luxury goods exhibited in the other cases in this gallery, were used as tomb furnishings in ancient China. The liubo players, who are depicted at a dramatic moment in a heated game, represent Han-dynasty people's leisure activities as well as their desired life in the other world. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Terracotta Hydria (water jar) Greek, Attic, black-figure, ca. 510 BC Attributed to the Leagros Group On the body, Achilles and Ajax playing a board game at Troy On the shoulder, chariot departing Accession # 56.171.29 The scene on the body depicts one of the most popular subjects in Greek art, mainly vase-painting, between about 540 and 480 BC. Over 150 occurrences are known. Remarkably, the original composition survives on an amphora in the Vatican Museums. The artist was Exekias, the potter and painter whose work represents the height of black-figure painting. In this variant, the painter has placed Athena stage center as the two primary Greek heroes of the Trojan War while away their time playing a game in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Terracotta Hydria (water jar) Greek, Attic, black-figure, ca. 510 BC Attributed to the Leagros Group On the body, Achilles and Ajax playing a board game at Troy On the shoulder, chariot departing Accession # 56.171.29 The scene on the body depicts one of the most popular subjects in Greek art, mainly vase-painting, between about 540 and 480 BC. Over 150 occurrences are known. Remarkably, the original composition survives on an amphora in the Vatican Museums. The artist was Exekias, the potter and painter whose work represents the height of black-figure painting. In this variant, the painter has placed Athena stage center as the two primary Greek heroes of the Trojan War while away their time playing a game in which pieces are moved according to the roll of dice. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Group of glass astragaloi (knucklebones) Greek, 3rd-2nd century BC Accession Numbers: 17.194.565-.572 In antiquity, one of the most popular games of chance was played with astragaloi, knucklebones of sheep and goats. They could be used like dice or like jacks, thrown in the air and caught on the back of the hand. Knucklebones have been found in tombs where they must have been intended to help the deceased while away endless time. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

Terracotta Figurines, Girls Playing Ephedrismos c. 300 B.C.E. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York: Rogers Fund, 1907, 07.286.4 Ex Collection John Marshall, Athens In Coming of Age in Ancient Greece, cat. 83 These two young girls are playing ephedrismos. The game entailed competing to see which of two players could knock over a stone placed upright on the ground by throwing other stones at it. The player who loses then has to run around carrying the winner on his/her back until the losing player touches the stone. The forward leg right leg of the carrier and the backswung leg of the left rider suggest the speed at which ephedrismos was commonly played. In this pair, the winning girl is especially easy to identify because she wears a stephane, or crown, on her head, while the carrier sports a humbler floral wreath. The presence of these attributes again seems to suggest the competiveness of ancient Greek society. Text (and more detailed information about children and games in ancient Greece) from: hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/exhibitions/coa/re_high_games.html

Senet Game wood and faience New Kingdom, Dynasty XVIII, circa 1539-1295 BC From Thebes Accession # 37.93E and 37.94E 1-23 Painted on some Middle Kingdom coffins were texts to guide the deceased through the underworld, where lurked demons who would deny entrance to gateways through which he needed to pass. The game of Senet reflects similar thinking, as the Egyptian word senet, meaning "passing," implies. The game board represents the spheres through which the deceased had to travel to reach the place of judgment. A New Kingdom text suggests that the game was played between the deceased and an unnamed opponent, the stakes being the deceased continued existence. But there is also evidence that Senet was popular with the living. Text from the Brooklyn Museum label.

Title: Game of hounds and jackals Period: Middle Kingdom Dynasty: Dynasty 12–13 Reign: reign of Amenemhat IV Date: ca. 1810–1700 B.C. Geography: Egypt, Upper Egypt; Thebes, el-Asasif, Tomb of Reniseneb (CC 25), Carnarvon/Carter 1910 Medium: Ebony, ivory Dimensions: Board: h. 6.3 cm (2 1/2 in); w. 15.2 cm (6 in) Credit Line: Purchase, Edward S. Harkness Gift, 1926 Accession Number: 26.7.1287 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/egypti...