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The Permanent Collection: Stories, Ideals, Beliefs

Works of art can convey ideas about who we are and what we believe. The Stories, Ideals, Beliefs gallery includes paintings and sculptures from a wide range of periods and places, from the ancient world to contemporary society and from five continents. The groupings encourage comparison across eras and cultures, as we ask viewers to consider how works of art express transformative moments from religious or literary narratives or how they present notions of ideal human beings.

Explore works of art in the Stories, Ideals, Beliefs installation online:

Listen to the podcast "Exploring the Ideal," discussing Baga Shoulder Mask (D’mba) and the Roman Standing Male Nude

Click here for the "Visual Conversations" podcast, featuring Abraham Janssens Philemon and Baucis Entertaining Jupiter and Mercury

Learn more about the above Kauffmann painting (far right) in the "Creative Responses" podcast

 
© 2004 - Davis Museum and Cultural Center
Provider Name: Jim Olson - jolson@wellesley.edu
Created: January 14, 2003
Last Modified: April 10, 2009
Expires: March 19, 2010
above: Maya, Standing Noble with Feathered Shield (detail), 700-900. Earthenware with paint. Museum purchase with funds provided by Wellesley College Friends of Art, 2005.27. above: Installation shot of Stories, Ideals, Beliefs.

above: Kauffmann, Angelica
Valentine, Proteus, Sylvia and Giulia in the Forest (Scene from "Two Gentlemen of Verona" Act V, Scene IV) (detail), 1788. Oil on canvas, 61 3/4 x 87 in. (156.8 x 221 cm). Museum purchase in memory of Winifred Herman Friedman (Class of 1945), 1976.34