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528 Bodhisattva, probably Avalokiteshvara (Guanyin) China ca. 550–560 Right hand
Many Korean monks traveled not only to China but also to India to learn the various teachings of the Buddha.
recognizable by its seated posture, with the right leg bent over the left and the right hand
Italian commedia dell’arte is shown consuming spaghetti, once held in his right hand
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published in 1795 The soldier moving his pike horizontally across the palm of his left hand
J. Kenneth Moore, Bradley Strauchen-Scherer, Jayson Kerr Dobney. Musical Instruments: Highlights of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. First Printing. © 2015 by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Held upright on its spike, it is bowed with the right hand in a palm-up position,
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Get a handle on palm-sized ephemera in The Met collection.
So many of the objects that we have in the ephemera collection can fit in one’s hand
Since a mezzotint can be made more rapidly, and less expensively, than a line engraving (although it yields fewer impressions), it became a favorite means for the quick dissemination of timely images.
copper-plate it [the mezzotint] is done upon, when the artist first takes it into hand
the elder saint, gesturing towards the outlined crucifix in the saint’s right hand
Curator Barbara Drake Boehm looks at medieval representations of martyrs Saint Bartholomew and Saint Lawrence in honor of their August feast days.
At first glance, the saint appears to hold a tall window in one hand.
