Explore the use of animals as symbols in medieval art with viewing questions and a group drawing activity at The Met Cloisters or in the classroom.
the paper to your neighbor, who will draw a body in the center section and then hand
Florentine woodcuts were generally shaded with parallel lines that give a sense of depth and sculptural form.
artists/makers ca. 1495–1500 In Venice at the end of the fifteenth century, both hand-illuminated
Inscription: Signed in pencil on the verso: „James Van Der Zee [sideways]“; artist’s printed address label, verso C: „Jas Vanderzee // 176 W. 94 Street // New York, N.Y. 10025“; stamped in ink, verso TC: „Negro Art Adv
"; dated in pencil in an unknown hand, verso C: "1926"; numerous (dealer’s?)
Oracle in hand, the Libyan Sibyl, eldest of the legendary prophetesses of antiquity
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
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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