Assyrian (Nimrud), “A Winged Genius”

Speaker: Ada Cohen, professor of Art History and the Israel Evans Professor in Oratory and Belles Lettres at Dartmouth College.

In the Company of Genies: Ada Cohen contextualizes WAM’s winged genius within the palace of the 9th-century BCE Assyrian king Ashurnasirpal II at Nimrud in modern-day Iraq, where it was one of many such figures.

Video filmed by WGBH Forum Network