Said to be from near Thessaloniki (Richter 1937, p. 292). [With Michael Ritsos, Thessaloniki, Greece]; before 1913, acquired by Friedrich Ludwig von Gans, purchased from M. Ritsos; collection of F
view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 158 The pieces in this group are said to have
Numerous contemporary authors wrote about the efficacy of such images in stimulating married couples hoping for children, as well as about the belief that visual beauty before a couple’s eyes could influence the appearance of their offspring.
It is clear that their content was understood to have an erotic charge.
Nineteenth-century house albums from Watson Library and the Department of Drawings and Prints Library.
How thrilling it must have been for young readers to navigate its colorful pages,
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
. 1625 Not on view Mystical interpretations about the yearnings of the soul have
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While either tradition could have contributed this powerful animal to the repertory
The Artist: The Sienese master 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
He may have spent some time with Duccio (see 2004.442), but in his monumental mural
head crests; long streamers emerge from their open, fanged mouths; their bodies have
Fred H. Andrews O.B.E. (until d. 1957; by descent to Andrews family); by descent in the Fred H. Andrews O.B.E. family (until 2017; sale, Christie’s, London, Chinese Ceramics and Works of Art: Including Export Art, May 15, 2007, lot 171, as „An extremely rare and important Tang dynasty painting on silk,“ through Eskenaz, Ltd
It consists of two parts that may or may not have matched each other originally.
Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art at Lisht, 1913-1914. Acquired by the Museum in the division of finds, 1914.Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition of the Metropolitan Museum of Art
One or more deities, who have not been preserved, would have stood in front of and
