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on the Tiwanaku Frontier.� Latin American Antiquity 12, no. 1 (2001): 67-83. http
on the Tiwanaku Frontier.� Latin American Antiquity 12, no. 1 (2001): 67-83. http
Bonnard explicitly admitted that he could only paint the familiar. The rituals of daily life—taking tea, feeding the cat, tending to the dinner table—were his subjects.
London: P. Wilson Publishers, 2002. Whitfield, Sarah, and John Elderfield.
A portrait does not merely record someone’s features, however, but says something about who he or she is, offering a vivid sense of a real person’s presence.
with the rest of humanity” (quoted in Shearer West, Portraiture [Oxford, 2004], p.
Although the world of Assyria continues to be revealed through spectacular finds, none can match the dramatic, romantic discoveries of the earlier generation.
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Cyrus, Babylon, Persia
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Inscription: Inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie.“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC: „Propylon du Temple de Dandour. (Tropique du Cancer)“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BR: „No
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Pliny’s retreats slipped into the landscape with terraced gardens and opened outward to natural surroundings through colonnades, or loggias, which replaced solid enclosing walls.
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P.
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto TRC: „93“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie.“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC: „Vue du pronaos du Temple de Dandour. (Tropique du Cancer)“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BR: „No
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Occasionally, the close scrutiny of early Netherlandish paintings yields quite another finding—that portraits of figures, and sometimes figures in their entirety, were reworked or initially painted by a different hand.
See on MetPublications Ainsworth, Maryan W., with Maximiliaan P. J. Martens.