Old Faces for New Eyes
Old Faces for New Eyes is a board book that I made for my newborn daughter which features curious old faces for curious young eyes with public domain art from The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Studies have shown that infants process faces long before they recognize other objects. So I decided to curate a number of interesting faces from different eras, cultures, and locations.
Sources
Terracotta kylix: eye-cup (drinking cup) ca. 520 B.C.
Panel from a Hathor Column after 423 B.C.
Limestone votive relief of eyes and a mouth 4th or 3rd century B.C.
Inlay, part of head 100 BC – 100 AD
Funerary mask 500 B.C. – A.D. 500
Face Mask Ornament 6th – 7th century
Bowl with Face 10th – 13th century
Head of a Central Asian Figure 12th – 13th century
Bowl with Face 11th – 14th century
Visored Bascinet ca. 1375 – 1400
Pendant 10th – 15th century
Jar with Four Faces mid-13th – mid-15th century
Memorial Head (Ntiri) 17th century
Ko-omote Mask for a Noh Drama 18th century
Bonbonnière 1760–70
Mask ca. 1870
Papierlaternen-Fabrik Riethmüller ca. 1880
Netsuke of Mask with Man’s Lopsided Face 19th century
Headdress: Janus 19th century
Door board (jovo) 19th century
Woman’s Head 1912
Lenox Avenue 1938