His sculptural objects suggest the traditional Chinese feeling for ritual and nature.
The assembled objects suggest that the Sumerian elite lived well and died even better.
The remains and objects collected suggest the site was dated to around AD 540-610.
In size alone, the objects reflect a high level of technical sophistication but never suggest that the artists had to strain to attain it.
Although almost every object suggests comfortable middle-class existence, the overall effect is one of homelessness.
All the objects in the paintings, including a majestic braid of hair, suggest relics.
Painted objects have a something more, like a "soul", suggests Boatto.
Hindu worship is, in fact, very much about direct visual and physical contact with the divine, as the 125 objects on view here suggest.
Islam would never, of course, suggest that God was in any way a visible object.
One object suggests a 10-foot-tall red pencil in a round holder.