Description of the China: Through the Looking Glass galleries
theorist Walter Benjamin, who in a 1928 essay describes her in a richly evocative manner
and that Böcklin delivered the picture to his patron with a note describing the manner
The Artist: Simone Martini was one of the greatest and most influential painters of his time. His work combines an astonishing mastery of naturalistically observed details with an exquisite technique, beautifully exemplified in The Met’s painting of Saint Andrew by the description of the hands, the tilted book, and the dangling tassel and the refined tooling of the halo
technique and descriptive powers, evident in the expression of Saint Andrew and the manner
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entomophilia as well as his allegiance to fashion, which had begun to embrace all manner
Reception Room (Qa’a)This interior, a splendid example of a wood-paneled reception chamber (qa‘a) from a private house in Damascus, is among the earliest extant, nearly complete interiors of its kind, dated by an inscription to A
A Ninth-Century Miss Manners: Dining Etiquette in Abbasid Iraq Looking toward the
