Los Angeles County Museum of Art   http://lacma.org/frconten.htm


Highlights of the Los Angeles Count Museum of Art
excerpted from an article by Christopher Knight, LA Times.

Rembrandt's "The Raising of Lazarus" (1630), which puts the putrid smell of death in a startled viewer's nostrils.
www.lacma.org/art/perm_col/europe/europe.htm



Rembrandt Harmensz Van Rijn (Holland, 1606?69)
The Raising of Lazarus, about 1630
Oil on panel
37 7/8 x 32 in. (96.2 x 81.3 cm)


The  archetypal word-image conundrum of Surrealist painting:



Rene Magritte
The Treachery of Images (This Is Not a Pipe)
(1928-29)


9th century BC Assyrian reliefs from the palace of Ashurnasirpal II.
www.lacma.org/art/perm_col/ancient/ancient.htm
www.williams.edu/WCMA/releases/01/010406stones.html
www.metmuseum.org/explore/anesite/html/el_ane_newfirst.htm



Eagle-Hwaded Deity
(Assyria, Nimrud, palace of Ashurnasirpal II [r.
883­858 B.C.])
Gypsum
Height: 88 in. (223.5 cm)


German Expressionist painting, sculpture and especially graphics, claim astounding depth.


The  Shin'enkan collection of more than 300 prime Japanese scrolls and screen paintings from the Edo period (1615-1868) is unsurpassed in the Western world.


European Baroque painting has steadily crept into prominence.


The collection of 18th century costumes and textiles can't be beat in any American museum.