Thomas Cole turns the landscape into a backdrop for a medieval tale in The Departure , one of a pair of luminous paintings set at sunrise and sunset . The lord of a great castle and his company leave for a quest in the bright light of an early spring morning.
He holds up one hand, palm out, toward the knights as he looks in their direction
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
She holds her left hand up to cup her opposite ear, with her elbow lifted as she
wall covering, seems the height of gentility. [1] A debonair young man, hat in hand
to our right, and she looks down at a pale green-covered book held in her right hand
A print by Frank Hartley Anderson reminds chef Adrienne Cheatham of the church meals she grew up with—and of a recipe for buttered rolls.
(For hand mixing instructions, see step 4.)
skin and long brown hair looks at us as she braces a tall, wooden hoop with one hand
Looking up in amazement as Christ ascends into heaven are the twelve apostles. Kneeling with them is the Virgin, the only one to have a halo.
He holds up his right hand, on our left, with the first two fingers raised.
He holds his right hand, to our left, up with his thumb and first two fingers almost
His right hand, closer to us, is planted palm out against his hip, and he holds a
Inscriptions & Marks Inscriptions lower right in graphite: Ilya Bolotowsky; by later hand
