Before a figure left the sculptor’s workshop, the eyes and lips were often tinted.
Washington, D.C.: The National Gallery of Art, 1999.
Fresco painting from the later Byzantine period reveals much about the mobility of artistic techniques and styles.
Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999. Hetherington, Paul.
It became more profitable for artists to produce items for the open market than to be tied to the workshops of the low-paying court.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. Goodwin, Godfrey.
While attempts at official union between the churches were not wholly successful, compromise and exchange were widespread in the arts.
Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1960.
London, 1892–Castello di Montegufoni, Italy, 1969
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Folio from the ChingiznamaThis late sixteenth-century Mughal painting comes from a copy of the Chingiznama1 (Book of Genghis Khan; also known as the Genghisnama), the text of which is an extract from Rashid al-Din’s fourteenth-century Jami‘ al-tawarikh (Compendium of Chronicles) that describes the life of Genghis Khan and his descendants
Exhibition, Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Washington D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2001, pp. 206-221.
Washington, D. C. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
I was thinking of “voice” here not as the sound one makes, but as the feeling of a specific presence behind the words, animating them.
Safia Elhillo Writer and Poet Sudanese by way of Washington, D.C., Safia Elhillo
