TaÅ«s (mayuri) – Indian – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/500709
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Until 1899, collection of Henry Hoffmann (1823-1897), Paris; May 1899, purchased by Henri de Morgan at the Hoffmann sale at Hôtel Drouot, Paris (lot 78); 1899-1901, collection of Henri de Morgan (1854-1909), Paris; acquired in 1901, purchased at the de Morgan sale at the American Art Galleries, New York (lot 67)
Painter has chosen a later moment in the Troilos story than the Painter of London B
For over a century scholars have considered whether or not this sympathetic portrait of an old man is a self-portrait by El Greco. Lafond (1906) described the seemingly Romantic notion as at best a plausible hypothesis, and a number of more recent scholars (for example, Wethey 1962) have rejected the idea, mainly on the basis of comparisons with presumed self-portraits inserted by El Greco into several of his major religious pictures (see also Christiansen 2003)
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Inscription: (central medallion (A), front, on scroll of Moses, center): SIC . ERIT . VITA . TVA . PENDENS / . ANE . N . CREDES . VITE . TVE (Thus your life will hang in the balance before [you], you will not be sure of your life [Deuteronomy 28:66])(central medallion (A), front, on upper left scroll): SICVT
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capture of Carthage by Publius Cornelius Scipio, an event that took place in 146 B.C
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The reconstructed portal is composed of five medieval elements. Neither the bases nor the arch of rosettes were part of the medieval monument. The two jambs of gray Carrara marble were apparently recarved from sections of antique sarcophagi
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Two Tusk Fragments with the Ascension of Christ:17.190.46 and 17.190.48Conforming to the shape of the ivory tusks from which they were carved, these two fragmentary images of the Ascension are so similar that they must have been carved by the same workshop
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