EditorialGroup of three children: the summer, The three children represent, in view of the frequent corn stalks, the summer. The girl on the right is holding a sheaf in her right hand as if it were a large bouquet and has some loose ears in her left. The little...
EditorialBris? fan with gold lacquer on a green lacquer stock with a central cartouche in which figures in a landscape or garden with pavilions, surrounded by leaf and flower motifs. On the front: within the central cartouche a landscape with weeping willow, ba...
EditorialTree, 1935, Watercolor, tempera, and ink on paper, 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm), Drawings, Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880?1946 Huntington, New York), In 1930, Dove began to work regularly in watercolor, becoming as skillful and prolifi...
EditorialBronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, Hellenistic, 3rd?2nd century B.C., Greek, Bronze, 8 1/16 ? 3 1/2 ? 4 1/2 in., 65.6oz. (20.5 ? 8.9 ? 11.4 cm, 4.1 lb.), Bronzes, The complex motion of this dancer is conveyed exclusively through the intera...
EditorialMadonna and Child, about 1450, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall, with engaged frame, 16 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (41.6 x 30.8 cm); painted surface 13 1/8 x 9 in. (33.3 x 22.9 cm), Paintings, Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) (Italian, Siena 1405...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Young Mother (Jeune m?re), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881, Oil on canvas, Renoir painted this scene of a peasant girl holding a child during a trip to Naples in 1881. Dissatisfied with his drawing skills, he had travelled to Italy t...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Young Mother (Jeune m?re), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1881, Oil on canvas, Renoir painted this scene of a peasant girl holding a child during a trip to Naples in 1881. Dissatisfied with his drawing skills, he had travelled to Italy t...
EditorialBronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, Hellenistic, 3rd?2nd century B.C., Greek, Bronze, 8 1/16 ? 3 1/2 ? 4 1/2 in., 65.6oz. (20.5 ? 8.9 ? 11.4 cm, 4.1 lb.), Bronzes, The complex motion of this dancer is conveyed exclusively through the intera...
EditorialBronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, Hellenistic, 3rd?2nd century B.C., Greek, Bronze, 8 1/16 ? 3 1/2 ? 4 1/2 in., 65.6oz. (20.5 ? 8.9 ? 11.4 cm, 4.1 lb.), Bronzes, The complex motion of this dancer is conveyed exclusively through the intera...
EditorialEarring in the form of a three-lobed wineskin, Parthian, ca. 2nd?1st century B.C., Mesopotamia, said to be from Nineveh, Parthian, Gold, L. 1 13/16 in. (4.6 cm), Metalwork-Ornaments, Interaction between Mesopotamia and the Greco-Roman world?initiated b...
EditorialTree, 1935, Watercolor, tempera, and ink on paper, 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm), Drawings, Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880?1946 Huntington, New York), In 1930, Dove began to work regularly in watercolor, becoming as skillful and prolifi...
EditorialBronze statuette of a veiled and masked dancer, Hellenistic, 3rd?2nd century B.C., Greek, Bronze, 8 1/16 ? 3 1/2 ? 4 1/2 in., 65.6oz. (20.5 ? 8.9 ? 11.4 cm, 4.1 lb.), Bronzes, The complex motion of this dancer is conveyed exclusively through the intera...
EditorialMadonna and Child, about 1450, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall, with engaged frame, 16 3/8 x 12 1/8 in. (41.6 x 30.8 cm); painted surface 13 1/8 x 9 in. (33.3 x 22.9 cm), Paintings, Sano di Pietro (Ansano di Pietro di Mencio) (Italian, Siena 1405...
EditorialChinese Woman in a Boat and Figures in Landscapes, Edo period (1615?1868), early 17th century, Japan, Triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on paper, 46 1/2 x 19 in. (118.1 x 48.3 cm), Paintings, Attributed to Kano Koi (Japanese, died 1636), The p...