Long before Homer, the seafaring civilization of Bronze Age Crete, known today as Minoan, established trade connections with Egypt.
featured in the tragic plays of Aeschylus, Sophokles, and Euripides; and preserved comic
Pater, born in Valenciennes, was apprenticed to a local painter in 1706. A contemporary would later report that his father sent him to Paris to study with Jean Antoine Watteau (1684–1721): probably the two painters left Valenciennes together in late 1709 or 1710
The dancer at center may be Marie-Anne Botot d’Angeville, a famous comic actress
In the wake of Abstract Expressionism, a number of painters developed strategies that both extended the life of painting while simultaneously pointing to its inevitable demise.
Photograph Suite (popularly known as “Eleven Color Photographs�) of 1966 were comic
Like Orientalist subjects in nineteenth-century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence and “barbaric splendour.”
Even Gilbert and Sullivan’s comic opera of 1885 The Mikado (with costumes supplied
Security manager Jose Rivero contemplates the different types of hero archetypes, from comic
Security manager Jose Rivero contemplates the different types of hero archetypes, from comic
Because the mask partially or entirely obscured facial expression, emphasis was placed on dialect and exaggerated gesture to convey emotion and intention.
only scripted components of the performance were lazzi—rehearsed interludes of comic
Security manager Jose Rivero contemplates the different types of hero archetypes, from comic
Despite his unconventional training, Watteau was permitted to compete for the Prix de Rome at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
around 1705, he began working for Claude Gillot (1673–1722), who specialized in comic
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diamond-patterned costume; the cheerless and egotistical manservant Crispin, a leading stock comic
