In preparation for the 2011 exhibition Cézanne‘s Card Players, Met staff investigated the creation of this series of masterpieces through technical examination.
Note, for example, the absent hand of the man on the right in The Met‘s painting,
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Charles Demuth 1920 Red Cabbages, Rhubarb and Orange Charles Demuth 1929 Hand
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century Untitled (Zig-Zag Mirror Displacement) Robert Smithson 1969 Study of a Hand
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Harry Burton 1926–30 Detail of Plant Bouquet Harry Burton ca. 1923–24 Model Hand
Learn about the discovery and meaning of these ancient stone figures from Sardinia.
the tip of a traditional Nuragic dagger with the guard bent to protect the gloved hand
The Artist: The Master of the Magdalen is the name given by Osvald Sirén (1922) to the anonymous artist who was active in the second half of the thirteenth century and painted a panel in the Galleria dell’Accademia, Florence representing Saint Mary Magdalen and eight episodes of her life (fig
head is a fragment of a large painting of the Madonna and Child (whose blessing hand
Marriages, which were also mergers, were potentially explosive moments, and lavish festivities may have diffused some of the tensions that might arise between families over dowry arrangements and other touchy subjects.
daughter to the husband, expressed in the Latin phrase tradere filiam suam (to hand
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The benevolent yet firm hand of a patrician government produced a stable environment
1840s, excavated under the direction of Austen Henry Layard; 1849, presented by Layard to Lady Charlotte Guest for Canford Manor, Dorsetshire (Dorset), England; 1919, purchased by Dikran Kelekian from Ivor Churchill Guest; 1927, purchased by J
his left hip, as well as two daggers tucked into his clothing, and in his left hand
As early as the first century A.D., the Roman author Pliny the Elder acknowledged the appeal of unfinished works of art, stating that they are often more admired than those that are finished, because in them the artists’ actual thoughts are left visible.
One example in which “the artist’s hand while engaged in the work was removed by
