The pharaohs built their mortuary temples [in Thebes] and were buried in huge rock-cut tombs decorated with finely executed paintings or painted reliefs illustrating religious texts concerned with the afterlife.
Royal hand ca. 1353–1336 B.C. Ripe barley ca. 1353–1336 B.C.
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Burgonet Desiderius Helmschmid Jörg Sigman ca. 1550–55 Gauntlet for the Right Hand
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These changes are not "slips of hand" or "misunderstandings"; instead, they are positive
Emile Gavet , Paris (until 1889) ; Mrs. Oliver Hazard Perry Belmont , Newport, Rhode Island (by 1922) ; [ Duveen Brothers , until 1928; sold to Herbert H. Lehman ] ; Governor (later Senator) and Mrs. Herbert Lehman (1928–69)
shows the Virgin Mary tenderly supporting the Christ Child, who solemnly raises his hand
Of works of art and other material culture only coins and scant ceramic fragments remain from this early period of the Umayyad governors (711–56).
–88) made Córdoba his capital and unified al-Andalus under his rule with a firm hand
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Lucas van Leyden 1520 Mercury descending from the sky a trumpet in his right hand
Coptic 4th century On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 302 In his left hand
Historic paper dolls from the Drawings and Prints collection tell a story of conspicuous consumption and evolving social values.
The unknown creators also hand-colored certain pieces, thereby personalizing them
Dado PanelThe room in Nishapur, Iran, from which this dado panel was excavated once had a lively scheme of painted decoration. The upper section of the wall was colored a deep red, beneath which was a short horizontal frieze of hexagons and diamonds, and a four-foot-high dado with alternating rectangular and square panels
One hypothesis is that the eye and hand symbols derived from representations of the
A portrait does not merely record someone’s features, however, but says something about who he or she is, offering a vivid sense of a real person’s presence.
The hand in the book confers an air of learned nonchalance on sitters both like and
