The technique of water-based painting dates to ancient times, and belongs to the history of many cultures in the world.
Materials The rise of watercolor painting as a serious artistic endeavor progressed hand-in-hand
Poussin brought a new intellectual rigor to the classical impulse in art, as well as a unique, somewhat reticent poetry.
gesture, design, color, and handling, which he varied according to the theme at hand
The Wentworth Room, originally a best chamber, or bedroom, from Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is one of the largest domestic interiors surviving from the early colonial period.
The roof was covered with hand-split wood shingles.
Bibliography of The Met’s Photograph Conservation department
 Hand Papermaking, Vol. 30, No. 2, Winter 2015: 24–28. Krizanova, Janka.
shown seated in front of an offering table with a jar for a sacred oil in his left hand
Increasing prosperity fueled demand for houses that were more comfortable and more elegant, while patrons grew more sophisticated, architects better esteemed, and craftsmen capable of realizing ever more ambitious designs.
Italian features came to England at second hand, however, through objects, books,
William Crowe ; William Crowe (the son) ; Thomas Bransby ; Sir Philip Astley ; Sir Jacob Astley ; Thomas Dawson ; Robert Wilson ; Augustine Hill Bradshaw ; William Woolverton ; George Bennett ; William Holmes Diver ; Mr
The Museum’s room lay behind the two left-hand windows leading onto the first-floor
G. R. Schmidt, Lima, until 1929; [The Brummer Gallery, New York, 1929–1948]; Nasli and Alice Heeramaneck, New York, 1948–1994; (Sotheby’s Sale 6562, May 17, 1994); private collection, New York, May 1994–2020
The feet and proper left hand are only minimally indicated.
[Until 1955, with Jacob Hirsch (1874-1955), Geneva and New York]; [1955-1959, Estate of Jacob Hirsch]; May 2, 1959, acquired by Dr. Athos Moretti, purchased through Ars Antiqua, Lucerne, Switzerland (lot 33); [1959-1984, with Dr
both the Athens marble and this copy may be the remains of fingers on the right hand
Watkins"; inscribed in ink on mount (in a different hand), recto BRC: "The Grisly
