To fashion these blades, the smith not only must possess physical strength, but also patience, dexterity, and a refined eye for the limits of the material and the beauty of a finished sword.
Modern smiths making Japanese swords in the traditional manner still use this type
Inscription: On the recto at the center top: the monogram Ad was added by another hand in thicker, more reddish brown ink.Marking: Inscribed in brown ink on the verso at the center top: 1493; at the lower left, a collector’s stamp about 8mm in diameter, in reddish brown: MUZ LUBOM Sorrounding the letters IO (or the number 10?)Watermark: three fleurs-de-lis in a shield, with a crown and flower and a suspended letter t (similar to Piccard XIII (III), no
series of sketches of pillows, exploring the effects of light on the folds in a manner
Many bannerstones are far too large or small to be used in this manner leaving open
Paolo Veronese’s paintings are grandiose and magnificent visions of the spectacle of sixteenth-century Venetian life. His art is inextricably linked to the idea of opulence and splendor in Renaissance Venice.
such regal pomp and circumstance, such majestic actions, such weighty and decorous manner
Furniture in the early Baroque, or William and Mary, style broke away from the solid, horizontal massing and rectilinear outlines of the preceding era.
Once in America, Searle and Dennis continued to produce objects in the same manner
This capital, in the form of a bust-length image of the winged archangel Michael, whose name is inscribed in Greek on its abacus, shows him turning to the right and holding a trilobed scepter, and an orb covered with parallel lines, on which is set a quatrelobed cross
set in his round, full face; its surface areas are articulated in a sophisticated manner
Inca standards—chief among them, the garment’s sides were left open in the manner
Euphiletos Painter ca. 530 BCE Terracotta kylix (drinking cup) Attributed to the manner
One of the most gifted and successful cabinetmakers of the second half of the eighteenth century, Riesener was the favorite of Queen Marie Antoinette.
at the Museum, with the restrained rectilinear shape typical of the Neoclassical manner
Jorge A. Lines, San Jose, Costa Rica, until 1932; [Joseph W. Dammann, Hollywood, CA, until 1956]; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1956, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1956–1978
skills of the artist(s) who made it, from the selection of the raw material to the manner
