With growing assurance, architects in northern France, and soon all over Europe, competed in a race to conquer height.
1330–50 Censer Swiss before 1477 “Then arose new architects who after the manner
Rembrandt was fascinated with subjects from the Old and New Testaments and, enjoyed revealing the realistic human emotion and narrative detail inspired by these stories.
assortment of figures in the foreground, each one reacting to the scene in a different manner
While religious themes had dominated Limoges enamels in the Middle Ages and continued to cover the surfaces of Limoges plaques particularly in the first third of the sixteenth century, images of Greek and Roman subjects predominated from the 1530s.
freely to copper surfaces, without obvious demarcations between areas of color, in a manner
Textile FragmentProbably from a blanket or cover, this scene is an abbreviated version of the triumphal procession of the Greek god Dionysus, which often included figures of the hero Heracles
and beardless, is portrayed performing his tasks in a short-hand but intelligible manner
MediaLab Volunteer Brian Hughes discusses his project, /Metcraft, which is the first step in developing the Minecraft gaming platform as a teaching and outreach tool.
Players flip these levers to answer game questions Players continued in this manner
Boucher’s most original contribution to Rococo painting was his reinvention of the pastoral, a form of idealized landscape populated by shepherds and shepherdesses in silk dress, enacting scenes of erotic and sentimental love.
He was highly adept at marketing his work, providing designs for all manner of decorative
Sargent elevates her status by showing her in the grand manner and scale typical
David ha-Kohen Coutinh[o], who signed his name in the book at Rosh Hashanah (in 1367) ; Moses Abulafia, who inscribed his name in the book (late 1400s–early 1500s) ; by descent, Donna Jamila, who sold the book in Thessaloniki (in 1526) ; Rabbi Abraham di Boton, who signed his name in the book, Thessaloniki (16th century) ; Zaradel Synogogue, Alexandria (by 1905) ; Central European Jewish Private Collector (1950s/60s–1996) ; J
As a result, Hebrew Bibles came to be splendidly adorned, in a manner worthy of that
The Artist: A major figure of sixteenth-century painting, Francesco de’ Rossi, better known as Francesco Salviati, was born in Florence in 1510. He was a close contemporary of Agnolo Bronzino (1503–1572)
He remarked that Salviati had "la piu bella maniera" (the most beautiful manner)
Beginning with Augustus, the emperors of the imperial period made full use of [sculpture’s] potential as a tool for communicating specific ideologies to the Roman populace.
A.D.), the founder of the Flavian dynasty, similarly show him in an unidealized manner
