[Carpets] were traded to Europe and the Far East where, too precious to be placed on the ground, they were used to cover furniture or hung on walls. Within the Islamic world, especially fine specimens were collected in royal households.
illustrated books circulated at the court, and a Mughal idiom, distinct from the Persian manner
Florentine color was frequently more vivid than the palette used in Venetian paintings; typically Venetian, however, was the process of layering and blending colors to achieve a glowing richness.
Lodovico Dolce, Venetian artists gradually softened their coloring until their manner
In addition to illustrating the appeal of new and foreign items in Joseon society, munbangdo paintings represent three significant aesthetic trends of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries: illusionism; antiquarianism and empiricism; and auspicious symbolism.
The handle’s branchlike illusion is reinforced by the manner in which the floral
Braunschweig, Germany, 1889−Los Angeles, 1945
through Scheyer’s collection between 1924 and 1945, including Paul Klee’s In the Manner
Mycenaean vessels in about 1500 BCE and were initially rendered in a very naturalistic manner
Jean-Baptiste Greuze (French, Tournus 1725–1805 Paris) ca. 1760–80 Girl’s Head Manner
Learn about the themes explored in the exhibition „Devotion to Drawing: The Karen B. Cohen Collection of Eugène Delacroix.“
He rejected the prevailing prescription for a singular method or ideal manner of
Sherman Fairchild Foundation Fellow Alexandra Nichols explains why time-based art demands special attention.
these artworks are variable in their display and may be presented in different manners
When this panel was in the Kann and Havemeyer collections, it was highly regarded as a Rembrandt. The picture held its place in Rembrandt catalogues through Valentiner’s unreliable corpus of 1931, after which the work was dropped from scholarly discussions for fifty years
One gains a very different impression of Backer’s manner from the tronies of old
Now, only older women carry on the practice of weaving baskets in the traditional manner
