In addition to philosophy, students engaged in rhetoric (the art of public speaking), mathematics, physics, botany, zoology, religion, music, politics, economics, and psychology.
Epikouros, on the other hand, placed great emphasis on the individual and the attainment
of chariots, in which are placed, in a fine attitude, a lady leaning her right hand
Philipp Imser, German (Tübingen-Weil). Planetary Clock (The Imser Clock), 1554–1561. Copper (gilded, silvered), brass, iron, 34 5/8 x 20 1/16 x 20 1/16 in. (88 x 51 x 51 cm). Technisches Museum, Vienna Human knowledge and human —Francis Knowledge The These
Is not he who holds thee in his hand made king and lord of the works of God!
The Book of Flower Studies contains 39 detailed illuminations of European flowers (ff. 1-35, 37-40) and a majuscule alphabet (ff. 35v-36). The manuscript is composed of fifteen quires; each quire is constructed from two bifolia or four folios
These are numbered at the upper right corner in a sixteenth- or seventeenth-century hand
Leading an Army of Jugs After Jacques Louis David French 1794 Not on view This hand-colored
She mourned by one woman, who sits on the ground and raises her hand to her face,
Made by Daniel Tachaux in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Armor Workshop, New York (about 1917; sent to Worcester Pressed Steel); Worcester Pressed Steel Company, Worcester, Mass. (about 1917–after 1931; transferred to Higgins Armory Museum); Higgins Armory Museum, Worcester, Mass
Tachaux worked closely with Dean to create the designs and then to make prototypes by hand
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his oeuvre, assigning to other artists drawings formerly believed to be by his hand
It was the use and function of the individual weapon or armor that determined why, how, and to what extent an object was decorated.
millennium BCE Two Shield Bosses (Umbos) Western European, Langobardic 7th century Hand-and-a-Half
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