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century Bone Carving, Possibly of a Dionysiac Revel Byzantine 300–500 Arm and Hand
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Holy Men and a Coptic Inscription Byzantine (Egypt) 6th–7th century Arm and Hand
A resource on Dürer’s Arch of Honor, a monumental woodcut created for Emperor Maximilian I.
sets of the proof and the first edition are extremely rare, and a few sets are hand-colored
Like a book, a handscroll is an intimate object that is held in the hands and is
scrolls through a narrative from right to left, rolling out one segment with his left hand
Learn more about the artist’s singular blending of media, Puerto Rican and Nuyorican culture, activism, issues of colonialism, and personal history in his remarkable prints.
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 use of architectural forms and motifs previously found only in furniture was characteristic of textiles designed in the various revival styles of the nineteenth century.
One roller printing machine could print as much yardage as twenty hand-block printers
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
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of multicolor woodblock printing processes pioneered in China, while others were hand
