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Art Animals at the de Young Summer Art Camp

Posted by Eileen Lew Morris on August 17, 2012

It’s hard to believe that the last week of the de Young Summer Art Camp is already here. During this final week, the sixth floor studio turned into a zoo as guest blogger Alida Jekabson reports.

Goodbye summer camp

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FRAME|WORK: A vessel in the shape of a lion from ancient Anatolia

Posted by Sarah Bailey Hogarty on June 8, 2011

FRAME|WORK is a weekly blog series that highlights an artwork in the Museums' permanent collections. This week, we feature an ancient terracotta drinking vessel in the shape of a lion from Turkey, currently on view at the Legion of Honor.


Rhyton in the shape of a lion, 1860–1780 BC
Turkey, Anatolia, Kültepe
Terracotta
7 1/2 x 7 7/8 x 2 3/4 in.
Gift of the Queen of Greece through Alma de Bretteville Spreckels, 1924.15

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Marvelous Menagerie Unmasked

Posted by Renee D. Dreyfus on May 12, 2011

In 1996 construction workers accidentally uncovered a mosaic while widening a road in the modern Israeli town of Lod, near Tel Aviv. A preliminary excavation immediately conducted by the Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) revealed that three feet below the modern surface there was a mosaic floor dating to about AD 300. The three most complete and impressive panels from the floor are on view at the Legion of Honor through July 24.

Mosaic floor central panel, Roman, ca. AD 300. Excavated at Lod (Lydda), Israel. Stone tesserae. Israel Antiquities Authority and the Shelby White and Leon Levy Lod Mosaic Center. Image courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority

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