Bamana numu (blacksmith) – Gwantigi – Bamana peoples – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314704
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Tunic with Dionysos and Dionysian ThemesA longer, wider version of the tunic was the ubiquitous garment of the Late Antique period. This tunic is one of four in the Museum’s collection said to be from Akhmim, an ancient weaving center and apparently a center of both pagan and Christian thought and religion
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evidently commissioned by Cosimo il Vecchio de‘ Medici (before March 1432) ; subsequent Medici family owners (until at least 1516) ; Sir John William Ramsden M.P., 5th Baronet , Muncaster Castle, Ravenglass, Cumbria and Bulstrode Park, Gerrards Cross, Buckinghamshire (by 1875 when exhibited by him in Yorkshire Exhibition of Arts & Manufactures at Leeds, May 1875 (catalogue p
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Eight different creatures inhabit the seven blocks of this enchanting carved archway. All but two come from the imagination, merging parts of different animals found in nature. Beginning at far left, we see a manticore, a fantastic creature with the head of a man, the body of a lion, and the tail of a scorpion
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From the high altar of the Cistercian abbey, Lichtenthal, near Baden-Baden, Baden-Württemberg; Dutch or German Private Collection ; [ Sotheby’s, London (July 28, 1939, no. 103) ] ; [ John Hunt, Ireland (1939–sold 1952)]
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Inscription: (On scroll): . Ave . / . gracia . / . ple / na . (Hail [Mary] full of grace)Marking: Arms [on shield held by two angels, center top]: Vilanova of Castile, Catalonia, etc
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The Concourse of the BirdsThe manuscript from which this painting comes was produced in 1483 at the Timurid court of Sultan Husayn Baycara at Herat. It contains four illustrations that may or may not be by the hand of Bihzad, the most famous artist of that era, but represent his innovative, perfectionist style
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