The bushel with ibex motifs, also known as the beaker with ibex motifs, is a prehistoric pottery artifact originating from Susa, an ancient city in the...

1793 with an exhibition of 537 paintings, the majority of the works being royal and confiscated church property. Because of structural problems with the...

horizon line not at the neck, as he did with Ginevra de' Benci, but on a level with the eyes, thus linking the figure with the landscape and emphasizing the...

Man with a Glove (French: L'Homme au Gant) is an oil-on-canvas portrait by the Italian Renaissance artist Titian, painted c. 1520. It is part of the collections...

most likely Aphrodite, depicted with a bare torso and drapery over the lower half of her body. The figure stands with her weight on her right leg, and...

"conveys the religious content of the picture", with the "gentle shadows [imbuing] the subject's skin tones with a very soft, delicate appearance, almost androgynous...

initial site in 1855 and replaced later that year with a copy by Paul and Raymond Balze (in collaboration with Michel Dumas). Surrounding Homer are poets, artists...

The Virgin and Child with Saint Anne is an unfinished oil painting by High Renaissance artist Leonardo da Vinci, dated to c. 1501–1519. It depicts Saint...

part in plaster, attached the left marble wing with a metal frame, and replaced the entire right wing with a plaster model. But he did not reconstruct the...

toppled King Charles X (r. 1824–1830). A bare-breasted “woman of the people” with a Phrygian cap personifying the concept and Goddess of Liberty, accompanied...

and earlier western styles associated with mythological subject matter. The painting expands on a number of motifs that Ingres had explored in earlier paintings...

Persian Lion Rhyton Acropole Tomb Apadana hoard Bardak Siah Palace Bushel with ibex motifs Code of Hammurabi Egyptian statue of Darius I Golden bowl of Hasanlu...

by the Dutch Golden Age painter Johannes Vermeer. It is in oil on canvas with dimensions 51 cm × 45 cm (20 in × 18 in). Portrayals of scientists were a...

but a warrior contending with a mounted combatant. In the days when antique sculptures gained immediacy by being identified with specific figures from history...

a large net filled with the bodies of naked men. Behind Ningirsu stands a smaller female figure wearing a horned headband and with maces protruding from...

after the sombre last years of the previous reign. The work celebrates love, with many cupids flying around the couples and pushing them closer together, as...

crown from the hands of her husband, not the pope. Her robe is decorated with silk, according to a contemporary cartoon by Jean-Francois Bony.[citation...

foreground are emphasized. Overlapping ranks of profile figures are a common motif in classical art, and that of ancient Near Eastern cultures. The central...

directly at the viewer with a self-assured expression. She is wearing a white cloth tied as a headdress, and a white dress tied with a red cord. The loose...

that period. It is currently on display at the Louvre Museum in France, with identification number AO 4083. The inscription is written in the Nabatean...

Louvre Museum. The top of the stele features an image in relief of Hammurabi with Shamash, the Babylonian sun god and god of justice. Below the relief are...

late 1983 and presented to the public in early 1984. Constructed entirely with glass segments and metal poles, it reaches a height of 21.6 metres (71 ft)...

hidden chamber under the tiny stone pyramid, containing the sarcophagus with the remains of Mary Magdalene. In reality, the smaller stone pyramid does...

portraiture from the Netherlands, by the mid-15th century the motif of a portrait in an interior with a landscape seen in the distance was common in Italy. An...

Mannerism exaggerated the Renaissance ideals – of figure, light, and colour – with asymmetric and unnaturally elegant arrangements achieved by flattening the...

in jail. He conceived the idea of telling the story, to honour his wife, with the theme being love prevailing over conflict and the protection of children...

remains uncertain, with archaeologists believing they may have been buried just after production, having possibly been made with that intent. The ʿAin...

of origin for the Dame d'Auxerre, in the region of Eleutherna and Gortyn, with the recovery from gravesites of very similar carved ivory faces and phallic...

modern Jordan). Mesha tells how Chemosh, the god of Moab, had been angry with his people and had allowed them to be subjugated to the Kingdom of Israel...

needed] For example, if The Young Martyr was painted as a morning scene, with the rising sun in the far background, the faint star above the grieving parents...