CapitalMasterfully carved, this Corinthian-style capital must have originally decorated a colonnaded hall or courtyard arcade in one of the lavishly embellished palaces erected during the tenth century under the patronage of the Umayyad dynasty in and around Cordoba, its capital
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1944. p. 106, ill. fig. 60 (b/w).
Shri Bhairavi DeviAlthough Akbar commissioned a number of manuscripts on Hindu subjects, later Mughal paintings of Hindu subjects are rare. This single page illustrates a horrific form of the Devi and was painted by one of the premier artists of the imperial atelier
B. N. Goswamy, "An Akbar-period Devi Mahatmya," in Arts of Mughal India, ed.
It consists of two sites: the three enormous cave temples at the top of the mountain
The son of a London barber and wigmaker, Turner dominated English landscape and marine painting in the first half of the nineteenth century. He studied in the Royal Academy schools from 1789 and first showed a painting at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1796; he was elected an academician in 1802 and continued to exhibit until 1850
London, 1862, vol. 1, p. 290; vol. 2, p. 402, as "merely a landing-place and shed
Learn more about the history of painted details on early Cycladic marble figures in the Leonard N. Stern Collection.
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This illustrated essay describes the evolution of the display of Islamic art at the Met—from the first largely visual exhibitions to the present scholarly organization by style, material, and civilization.
961 and 981 from a courtyard dado in Sabz Pushan and photographs of excavation sites
Learn more about the history of painted details on early Cycladic marble figures in the Leonard N. Stern Collection.
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addition, four-cornered hats knotted with pile have largely been discovered at Wari sites
La Renaissance 12 (October 1929), p. 483, ill. p. 479. Harry B. Wehle.
L’art et les artistes, n.s., 15 (October 1927), p. 20, ill. p. 3.
