“I wanted to be that commanding huntress, to live among a fleet of adoring nymphs and hounds and transform any man who crossed me.”
tall and pert-bosomed, accompanied by a dog or stag, a drawn bow or spear in her hand
He originally held an object in his raised right hand; the fingers and thumb curl
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
Associate Curator Femke Speelberg recounts the interesting tale of a painting based on a cartoon by Michelangelo that was almost given away by raffle in 1735.
The painting is not by the hand of Michelangelo himself, but is based on a design
In February 2020, researchers, scientists, and contemporary artists convened to consider how AI impacts art and creativity.
On the other hand, Belongie realized that machine learning would eliminate certain
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
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The benevolent yet firm hand of a patrician government produced a stable environment
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Maria Mitelli printed 1740 Man Subduing a Harpy, Seated on the Harpy, with His Hand
