Moche artist(s) – Shield with crab and fish figures – Moche – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314874
third and outermost circular bands are unworked, while the second and fourth bands have
third and outermost circular bands are unworked, while the second and fourth bands have
The Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Curatorial Fellowship is a two-year fellowship for a postdoctoral scholar at an early stage of their career to gain curatorial training and experience, and to engage with a community of staff and scholars from around the world.
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His sculpture remained a private medium, akin to sketches or drawings, in which Degas, limiting himself to a small range of subjects, explored the problems that fascinated him.
The original sculptures, mostly of wax and long thought to have been destroyed, had
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„I see vibrant thoughts as clouds and feel volatile emotions as waves.“
Rigdol is one of several Tibetan and Nepalese artists who have found significant
Bidri Water Pipe BaseOf the small number of known bidri objects that predate the eighteenth century, a majority are huqqa (water pipe) bases. Tobacco arrived in India sometime in the late sixteenth century, brought by the Portuguese from the New World to the port of Goa
Fifth Avenue in Gallery 463 This huqqa base, with irises and other flowers, would have
Her left hand, open with the palm up, may have held an object.
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The Artist: Hugo van der Goes (ca. 1440–1482), born in Ghent, was one of the leading Flemish artists of the second half of the fifteenth century. Initially, Hugo followed in the grand tradition of the illusionism of Jan van Eyck’s paintings, with a palette of richly saturated colors and a clear organization of space that depended on single vanishing-point perspective
of this monumental altarpiece that all other attributions of paintings to Hugo have
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While “Old Master” drawings have come down to us in abundance, the work of the draftsmen