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This Buddha holds his hands in a “wisdom fist,� a gesture in which the left hand
The raised right hand gestures in teaching, the lowered hand grants boons.
The main focus of Byzantine devotion was the Virgin Mary, but certain other sacred figures were prominent in Byzantine spiritual life as well.
traditional dress of the archangels and carries a trilobed scepter in his right hand
A more unified national style emerged in the seventeenth century, in part due to the establishment in 1648 of the French Royal Academy (Académie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture), where the influence of Nicolas Poussin (1594–1665) contributed to the The During
The French Enlightenment is represented, on the one hand, by the sparkling trois
gestures compassionate protection to devotees (abhaya mudra) with his raised right hand
Each tea gathering is a unique experience, so a particular assemblage of objects and people is never repeated.
Bizen ware, on the other hand, is known for its deep reddish to blackish brown color
All three of these figures originally wore broad collars containing the pigment Egyptian blue. Egyptian blue, a synthetic form of the mineral cuprorivaite, was the most widely used blue in ancient times and is believed to be the first synthetically produced pigment
front face detail of left hand figure face detail of center figure face detail
scene to isolate and emphasize the charged vignette of the poison passing from one hand
tpore iepte; P1amus p1mus / Rex troyag / fuit eodem tpore; Elena (and in another hand
