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Barakat Gallery
The Barakat Gallery is an antiquities dealership with locations in London, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, and Seoul. Barakat is considered to have one of the largest collection of ancient art for sale in the world, and one of the largest collections in private hands, at around 40,000 items with total valuation of over $1.5 billion USD according to several sources. The galleries are currently owned by Fayez Barakat, a Palestinian-American artist and antiquities dealer. Barakat is the fifth generation of his family to run the business. History The gallery started informally on the Barakat family's farm land in Hebron, Palestine where the family collected antiquities from local farmers that had unearthed them in the course of their labor. The family then sold the antiquities alongside their own produce in the local market. The modern company was founded with the opening of its first major gallery in Jerusalem in the 1950s and has since expanded to Los Angeles, London, Hong Kong, and Seo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Barakat ( ar, بركات ) is an Arabic word meaning ''blessings''. It may refer to: Persons * Barakat (surname) * Barkatullah (other), a male given name Others * Barakat syndrome, also known as HDR syndrome * ''Barakat!'', 2006 French-Algerian film, directed by Djamila Sahraoui * Barakat (2020 film), ''Barakat'' (2020 film), a South African drama film * al-Barakat, Somali consortium * Barakat, Inc., an American NGO working in India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan See also * Berakhah (''Birkath''-) * Bereket (other) * Bereket (name) * Barack Obama * COVIran Barekat {{disambiguation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antiquities
Antiquities are objects from antiquity, especially the civilizations of the Mediterranean: the Classical antiquity of Greece and Rome, Ancient Egypt and the other Ancient Near Eastern cultures. Artifacts from earlier periods such as the Mesolithic, and other civilizations from Asia and elsewhere may also be covered by the term. The phenomenon of giving a high value to ancient artifacts is found in other cultures, notably China, where Chinese ritual bronzes, three to two thousand years old, have been avidly collected and imitated for centuries, and the Pre-Columbian cultures of Mesoamerica, where in particular the artifacts of the earliest Olmec civilization are found reburied in significant sites of later cultures up to the Spanish Conquest. A person who studies antiquities, as opposed to just collecting them, is often called an antiquarian. Definition The definition of the term is not always precise, and institutional definitions such as museum "Departments of Antiquit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ancient Art
Ancient art refers to the many types of art produced by the advanced cultures of ancient societies with some form of writing, such as those of ancient China, India, Mesopotamia, Persia, Palestine, Egypt, Greece, and Rome. The art of pre-literate societies is normally referred to as Prehistoric art and is not covered here. Although some Pre-Columbian cultures developed writing during the centuries before the arrival of Europeans, on grounds of dating these are covered at Pre-Columbian art, and articles such as Maya art and Aztec art. Olmec art is mentioned below. Middle East and Mediterranean Mesopotamia Mesopotamia (from the Greek Μεσοποταμία " andbetween the rivers", in Syriac called ܒܝܬ ܢܗܪܝܢ pronounced "Beth Nahrain", "Land of rivers", rendered in Arabic as بلاد الرافدين bilād al-rāfidayn) is a toponym for the area of the Tigris- Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, as well as some parts of northeastern Syr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fayez Barakat
Fayez ( ar, فَائِز) is an Arabic given name for males, a variant of Faiz. People named Fayez include: * Fayez Bandar, Kuwaiti footballer * Fayez Banihammad, one of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks * Fayez Ghosn, Lebanese politician * Fayez Sarofim, Coptic Egyptian American fund manager * Fayez al-Tarawneh Fayez Tarawneh ( ar, فايز الطراونة; '; 1 May 1949 – 15 December 2021) was a Jordanian independent politician, who served twice as the 31st Prime Minister of Jordan, and also as Chief of the Royal Hashemite Court. Early life and ed ..., former Prime Minister of Jordan {{given name Arabic masculine given names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebron
Hebron ( ar, الخليل or ; he, חֶבְרוֹן ) is a State of Palestine, Palestinian. city in the southern West Bank, south of Jerusalem. Nestled in the Judaean Mountains, it lies Above mean sea level, above sea level. The second-largest city in the West Bank (after East Jerusalem), and the third-largest in the Palestinian territories (after East Jerusalem and Gaza City, Gaza), it has a population of over 215,000 Palestinians (2016), and seven hundred Israeli settlement, Jewish settlers concentrated on the outskirts of its Old City of Hebron, Old City. It includes the Cave of the Patriarchs, which Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions all designate as the burial site of three key Patriarchs (Bible), patriarchal/Patriarchs (Bible), matriarchal couples. The city is often considered one of the Four Holy Cities, four holy cities in Judaism. as well as in Islam. Hebron is considered one of the oldest cities in the Levant. According to the Bible, Abraham settled in Hebr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gospel Book
A Gospel Book, Evangelion, or Book of the Gospels ( Greek: , ''Evangélion'') is a codex or bound volume containing one or more of the four Gospels of the Christian New Testament – normally all four – centering on the life of Jesus of Nazareth and the roots of the Christian faith. The term is also used for a liturgical book, also called the Evangeliary, from which are read the portions of the Gospels used in the Mass and other services, arranged according to the order of the liturgical calendar. Liturgical use in churches of a distinct Gospel book remains normal, often compulsory, in Eastern Christianity, and very common in Roman Catholicism and some parts of Anglicanism and Lutheranism. Other Protestant churches normally just use a complete Bible. History In the Middle Ages, the production of copies of the Bible in its entirety was rare because of the huge expense of the parchment required. Individual books or collections of books were produced for specific pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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