St. Gallen, Switzerland, 1908—Zurich, 2002
by Pablo Picasso in the Burgauer collection were the artist’s collage Head of a Man
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The Concourse of the BirdsThe manuscript from which this painting comes was produced in 1483 at the Timurid court of Sultan Husayn Baycara at Herat. It contains four illustrations that may or may not be by the hand of Bihzad, the most famous artist of that era, but represent his innovative, perfectionist style
and urges the birds to seek the Simurgh, their true king.[1] At the upper right a man
Antonello da Messina is, in a sense, the first truly European painter and his remarkably varied achievements raise issues crucial to our understanding of European art.
da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d’Antonio) early 1460s Portrait of a Young Man
An examination of the theme of idealized pairings in sub-Saharan African cultures, displaying approximately sixty works of sculpture dating from the twelfth to the twentieth century, drawn from some thirty distinct African traditions.
This seminal work gives expression to the idea of man and woman as an elemental unit
Interpreted as the "Sea; of Solomon," gätsä säb’e ("face of man"), or an eight-winged
Marking: Annotated in pen and brown ink in a fifteenth-century hand at the lower right: Avanti; at the upper right: Fato (?); inscribed at the upper left, “Questo desegno fo de felixo,� (probably referring to an early fifteenth-century Veronese collector, Felice Feliciano, who owned the drawing)
It is also possible that it depicts a wild man, a mythical figure covered in hair
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cultivated and inhabited a dual image of himself as, on the one hand, a wolfish wild man
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On William Wegman 1970–71 Stick and Tooth William Wegman 1972–73 Calling Man
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1770–75 Episode in the life of Joshua-Rahab South Netherlandish 15th century Man
