When you look at art closely, a door opens. Before reading the identifying information below, take your time to explore this image, which is in the Public Domain.
For an excellent video tutorial on the skill of close observation (and other skills useful to anyone who explores works of art and architecture), see "What is Visual Literacy?" from the Toledo Museum of Art.
About the artwork:
Drum, from the Pre-Columbian Paracas culture, Peru, ca. 300-200 BCE. The medium is ceramic with polychrome. The object is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. See additional information below.
Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (21 × 11.4 × 11.4 cm)
Classification: Membranophone-single-headed / cylindro-conical
Credit Line: Purchase, Frederick M. Lehman Bequest, 2010
Accession Number: 2010.172.1
Dimensions: 8 1/4 × 4 1/2 × 4 1/2 in. (21 × 11.4 × 11.4 cm)
Classification: Membranophone-single-headed / cylindro-conical
Credit Line: Purchase, Frederick M. Lehman Bequest, 2010
Accession Number: 2010.172.1
The image is in the Public Domain.
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