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Steelyard Weight with the Bust of a Woman
View through The Met
Copper alloy, Byzantine
Medieval Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Edith Perry Chapman Fund 1962
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Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block; pages of off-white wove paper, each 27.2 x 20.8 cm. Drawings made in graphite and in vertical orientation...
Sketchbook
Sketchbook
Sketchbook with black-leather-covered cardboard covers. Sewn page block. Pages of white wove paper, each 34.7 x 27.1 cm. Pages numbered at l.l. of verso in graphite. Drawings i...
Pelike depicting Helen and Paris
Pelike depicting Helen and Paris
The scene on the front of the pelike (jar) comprises five figures: a couple consisting of a woman and a young man, flanked by a boy and second woman, respectively. A small Eros flu...
Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena
Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena
Copper alloy filled with lead, Byzantine...
Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena
Steelyard Weight with the Bust of Athena
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Follis of Constantine VI and Irene, Constantinople
Follis of Constantine VI and Irene, Constantinople
Obv.: Bust of Irene facing, wearing loros and crown with cross, pinnacles, and pendilia. In r. hand, gl. cr.; in l., cross scepter.
Rev.: Above horizontal line, bust of Constant...
Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
Village in Martinique (Femmes et Chevre dans le village)
In 1887, Gauguin and Charles Laval went to Panama, and then to Martinique, searching for a warm, healthy climate and a cheap place to live a natural, "savage" life. Residing during...
Woman at the Window
Woman at the Window
The nineteenth century witnessed the evolution of the nuclear family unit—father, mother, and children—into a nexus of bourgeois social life throughout Europe and North America. In...
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The Sin of the Father: Reflections on the Roles of the Corporation Man, the Suburban Housewife, Their Son, and Their Daughter in the Deconstruction of the Patriarch
The Sin of the Father: Reflections on the Roles of the Corporation Man, the Suburban Housewife, Their Son, and Their Daughter in the Deconstruction of the Patriarch
The roots of the postmodernist denigration of the patriarch are traced to the postwar middle class family. The premise of this family was that the father would work and make possib...
Envisioning Crucifixion: Light from Several Inscriptions and the Palatine Graffito
Envisioning Crucifixion: Light from Several Inscriptions and the Palatine Graffito
AbstractThe Palatine graffito of a crucified man with an ass's head, a graffito that uses crucifixion as an obscenity, and the remnant of a crucified man's foot transfixed by a nai...
'A body in time’: reading and writing Australian literature
'A body in time’: reading and writing Australian literature
In the press, a lament for the study of Australian literature is often coupled with mistrust at the popularity of creative programs. It can be disconcerting for writers and teacher...
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