Electronic Resources and Instructional Services Librarian Deborah Vincelli discusses a selection of rare eighteenth-century auction catalogs in the libraries‘ Digital Collections.
Many of the catalogs in this collection are heavily annotated by hand.
Her left hand, open with the palm up, may have held an object.
Their hand-built pottery features imagery that reflects their deep spirituality.
Gallery 151 The beautiful naked warrior originally held a spear in his raised hand
The smaller figure standing below the Buddha’s left hand may represent the young
focusing on his deep-set eyes with their dark shadows and his attenuated right hand
tunic under a multi-colored, skirt-like garment holds a fluted goblet in his right hand
Folio from the Anonymous Bagdad Qur’anThis illuminated folio and folio no. 55.44 come from different sections of one of the acknowledged masterpieces of calligraphy and book production in the Islamic world
while Ibn Aibak managed to illuminate only four of them.[3] This folio is the right-hand
Art demonstrates both the scope and the limits of Roman influence, for the circulation of materials, methods, objects, and art forms created a certain cultural unity, and yet in each place, the persistence of local customs ensured the survival of cultural diversity.
Romanization went hand in hand with economic prosperity, as the city of Rome looked
In ancient Egypt, objects created with faience were considered magical, filled with the undying shimmer of the sun, and imbued with the powers of rebirth.
Small amulets and beads could be formed by hand-modeling, but one of the most common
