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
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
€“1667) Frans Hals 1643 A Musician and His Daughter Thomas de Keyser 1629 Man
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
On William Wegman 1970–71 Stick and Tooth William Wegman 1972–73 Calling Man
Search art at the Metropolitan Museum.
1770–75 Episode in the life of Joshua-Rahab South Netherlandish 15th century Man
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
cultivated and inhabited a dual image of himself as, on the one hand, a wolfish wild man
?–1913, Paris
an antique dealer who was also selling paintings… He was a very, very difficult man
Inscription: Recto inscribed toward the center of the upper border in pen and medium brown ink by Leonardo, script reading from right to left:ilramarro . fedele allomo vede[n]do quello adorme[n] / tato
accompanying inscription on the recto of the Metropolitan sheet, the sketch portrays a man
South Arabian merchants utilized the Incense Route to transport not only frankincense and myrrh but also spices, gold, ivory, pearls, precious stones, and textiles—all of which arrived at the local ports from Africa, India, and the Far East.
. late 1st millennium BCE Standing bull ca. mid-1st millennium BCE Head of a man
