in. (21.3 x 14.3 cm) Classification: Drawings Credit Line: Gift from the Karen B.
From a hypogeum (so-called “tomb B�) on the property of Savino Scocchera in Mandorleto Grotticelle, east of Canosa, Italy (Cozzi 1896, p. 494) 1895, found in a tomb near Canosa, Apulia, Italy; [by 1904 and until 1906, with Cesare and Ercole Canessa, Naples and Paris]; acquired in 1906, purchased from C
group as the loutrophoroi 06.1021.245 and 06.1021.249; the pyxis 06.1021.253a, b;
Greek settlers and the Scythian peoples around them profoundly impacted each other’s culture and art for centuries.
This gold casing would have been fitted onto a leather sword sheath, now lost.
This imposing picture, one of Fei’s most accomplished, is completely intact, with its original engaged frame richly decorated with gilded pastiglia and small cabochon stones alternating with medallions of verre églomisé (see Eisler 1961 for a discussion of this technique)
picture, whose provenance cannot be traced prior to the twentieth century, may have
From the fourteenth to the mid-sixteenth century, more books of hours were made than any other type of book.
son of God (54.1.2, fol. 16r;� 54.1.1, fol. 30r; 2015.706, fols. 8v–9r; 58.71a,b;
CarpetA so-called ‘thunder-and-lightening’ symbol covers the entire field of this rug. Against this background appear a single, scalloped central medallion and four corner pieces
design of a central medallion and four corner quarter-medallions is thought to have
set [me] up as a monument This is the most complete grave monument of its type to have
After World War II, four Museum employees restored a set of beloved medieval tapestries
They may have survived in part, but upon their acquisition in 1932 and 1947, the
„Loud“ is not just the description of a sound. It is an attitude. Rock and roll musicians took „loud“ and built it into one of the defining artistic movements of the twentieth century. Fashion, art, politics—all were influenced The
many earlier genres: the piano and saxophone came to early rock and roll from R&B
Shri Bhairavi DeviAlthough Akbar commissioned a number of manuscripts on Hindu subjects, later Mughal paintings of Hindu subjects are rare. This single page illustrates a horrific form of the Devi and was painted by one of the premier artists of the imperial atelier
It may have been commissioned as a royal gift to the rana of Mewar, who, like most
