16th century | Ink, gold and colors on paper
revealed word of God, a text preserved in a heavenly tablet since the time before creation. Manuscripts of ...
13th-14th century | Soapstone, carved
production processes behind the creation of commercial works in multiples. Likely intended for an amulet, ... glance further reveals that this mold clearly suffered breakage and imperfect repair at some point in its ...
1936 | Oil on linen
Transcendental Painting Group (TPG), they both had developed a strong belief in the creation of non-objective art ... reality. Bisttram goes behind the surface image of things and reveals the conceptual image of the ...
c. 1700 | Ebonized wood, silver with enamel, cast and chased
to reveal a set of drawers bedecked with intricately cast and chased openwork silver applications. ... impression, revealing the virtuosity with which it was embellished, its costly materials, and the role of the ... viceroy in its creation. The work is a brilliant example of how objects could be altered and reactivated ...
1919 | Oil on panel
the photograph is lighthearted, the creation of a large canvas inspired a more somber mood. Emma is ... formal portraits of the 1920s reveal a new seriousness with their balanced and severely geometrical ...
early 14th century | Ink and opaque watercolor on paper
his earlier counterparts. Al-Jazari reveals in his rationale for the book that this royal patron asked ... musicians, and complex hydraulic devices meant to support palatial gardens. Such marvelous creations fell ...
circa 1883-1884 | Oil on canvas
several years of his life Fuller created a number of such farm scenes, which reveal his rural New England ... 1880. When it was sold at auction less than thirty years after its creation, the painting received ...
modeled 1858, carved 1860 | Marble on polychrome wood platform
a fictionalized account of Story’s creation of the first version of Cleopatra. It and the later publication of the ... Story’s in Rome, witnessed the creation of the statue almost from the start. Visiting Story on February ... Egypt, as revealed by the strange sculpture of that country, its coins, drawings, painted mummy-cases, ...