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–1903) Gauguin cultivated and inhabited a dual image of himself as, on the one hand
The organ is a complex wind instrument that employs one or more keyboards to operate valves that admit air into a series of individual pipes, which make the sound.
They could be played by one person operating a bellows with the left hand and the
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Richly Decorated Tunic 660–870 (radiocarbon date, 95% probability) Arm and Hand
This arresting portrait of an unidentified young Florentine is dated by most scholars to the 1530s. During that decade Bronzino was often engaged in painting members of a close-knit circle of acquaintances with whom he shared literary interests, and this sitter—who so conspicuously holds open a book—may be from among that group
Infrared reflectogram (detail: right hand and book) Fig. 4.
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
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
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These varied three-dimensional, hand-held ensembles shed significant light upon the
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Maria Mitelli printed 1740 Man Subduing a Harpy, Seated on the Harpy, with His Hand
nude, with her weight on her right leg, her head turned to the left, her right hand
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Ground Floor, Studio, Uris Center for Education To the Beat of the Hand Drum
