German, 19th century Date: 1883 Medium: Wood engravings, printed paper, cut out, hand
The oldest form of printmaking, woodcut is a relief process in which knives and other tools are used to carve a design into the surface of a wooden block.
to have been produced by simply pressing the paper against the block with one’s hand
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Battle against the Uzbeks early 19th century Box in the shape of a “Buddha’s hand
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Jolly Flatboatmen" 1877–78, with alterations to the little finger of the right hand
Talhoffer specialized in a specific type of combat, and his work involves the whole process of battle, from the entry of the contestants into the field of combat, to the death of one of the participants.
Talhoffer 16th century copy of a mid-15th century manuscript Gauntlet for the Left Hand
While their work was based on ancient sources from Greece, Iran, and India, [scientists in the Islamic world] updated methods for measuring and calculating the movement of heavenly bodies, and continued to develop models of the universe and the movements of the planets within it.
On the one hand, Aristotle’s (384–322 B.C.) model of the universe, with the earth
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Hand-colored lithograph with collage, 22 1/2 x 30 1/8 in. (57 x 76.3 cm).
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disparaged as mere copyists, they showed off their ingenuity with unexpected sleights of hand
The canvas is signed and dated 1647, a year after Charles Le Brun, the future premier peintre du roi under Louis XIV, returned to Paris from a period of study in Rome. In Paris, where he had been the pupil of François Perrier and spent time in the workshop of Simon Vouet, his work had caught the attention of Nicolas Poussin, who had returned to the French capital to work for the king in 1640
grim rites were preparing for her; and when she saw Neoptolemus standing, sword in hand
This rectangular ivory panel once formed the cover of a writing tablet. On one side of the panel, a young woman and a man with a hawk kneel before the winged god Cupid (usually called Amor or The God of Love in contemporary texts)
On the other, a standing man, holding a hawk in his right hand, places a crown on
