Fragment of a Stela – Coptic – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/477752?pkgids=887
Coptic 4th century On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 302 In his left hand
Coptic 4th century On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 302 In his left 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
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
In honor of WorldPride NYC and Camp: Notes on Fashion, we explore the history of camp culture’s trademark, the gesture known as „the camp pose.“
One arm is bent from the hip and the hand is turned back, which signals both power
Rubens and van Dyck are among the finest draftsmen of all times. The works they left behind probably count, respectively, some 700 and 200 sheets.
Such drawings were not merely exercises for the hand and eye: they provided a rich
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
Known as hoplites, these [foot] soldiers were characteristically equipped with about seventy pounds of armor, most of which was made of bronze.
The heavy bronze shield, which was secured on the left arm and hand by a metal band
I was thinking of “voice” here not as the sound one makes, but as the feeling of a specific presence behind the words, animating them.
And so I decided to try my hand at writing an incantation, beginning with the ingredients
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