Rider on a NagA number of drawings from the Deccani kingdoms that incorporate marbling are known. A whole group of them illustrate nags; among the Sufis, nags are thought metaphorically to embody the body’s gross desires and therefore are properly shown starved and beaten
The three drawings are Aga Khan Museum, Toronto (1983.425); Museum of Fine Arts,
HARPSICHORD:Width of inner instrument: 8 ft. 9 7/8 in. (269 cm); Depth of inner instrument: 34 3/8 in. (87.2 cm); Height of inner instrument: 7 1/2 in. (9 cm); 3-octave span: 19 1/4 in
New York, Toronto, 1967, pp. 158–159, fig. 57, ill. Emanuel Winternitz.
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The son of a London barber and wigmaker, Turner dominated English landscape and marine painting in the first half of the nineteenth century. He studied in the Royal Academy schools from 1789 and first showed a painting at the Royal Academy exhibition in 1796; he was elected an academician in 1802 and continued to exhibit until 1850
Art Gallery of Toronto. "Paintings by J. M. W.
European artists from the Renaissance onward have visualized the known world through allegorical figures derived from ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman personifications.
presented at the Annual Meeting of the Renaissance Society of America Conference, Toronto
This diptych is composed of a pair of thick ivory panels. Two modern hinges hold the panels together, allowing them to fold closed like a book and lock by means of a hook and eye latch on their outer rims
PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2009. p. 254 n. 25, fig. 5–2.
Alfred Robaut, Paris (until 1899; sold on February 21 for Fr 6,000 to Durand-Ruel); [Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1899; stock no. 5026, as „Italienne“; sold on December 8, 1899 or January 25, 1900 to Durand-Ruel, New York]; [Durand-Ruel, New York, 1899/1900–1903; stock no
Art Gallery of Toronto.
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
Toronto: University of Toronto, 1993. pp. 224–27, fig. 143. Mellinkoff, Ruth.
