Art Details

Detail from Tryptich of the Adoration of the Magi Hieronymus Bosch 1494

digitally enhanced

sweeping up the alphabet

border illustrations from the hours of marguerite d'orléans, france, 15th c.

source: Paris, BnF, Latin 1156 B, fol. 135r

The eye of a marble statue from Herculaneum, with surviving paint. Roman before 79 AD.  

~ Pectoral ornament with human profiles and pendant discs.

Cultures: Minoan

Date: 1850-1550B.C.

Place of origin: Attica, Greece, Aegina

Medium: Gold

Pedro de Mena - Ecce Homo (c. 1674). Detail.

bag

Cultures/periods: Late Intermediate (early?)

Production date: 900-1430

Made in: Peru

Found/Acquired: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

British Museum

Jacobello di Antonello - Madonna and Child. Detail. 1500 - 1510

Maquizcoatl -Double-headed serpent (coatl), Aztec culture (Mexico), 1400-1521, cedro wood covered with mosaic made of turquoise and red thorny oyster shell & conch shell, 20.30 x 43.30 x 5.90 cm, The British Museum.

GIOTTO No. 31 Scenes from the Life of Christ: 15. The Arrest of Christ (detail) 1304-06 Fresco Cappella Scrovegni (Arena Chapel), Padua

Janiva Ellis at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Detail from an statue of the goddess Hygeia from Feneos, Greece

Bon Dance

Bon-odori zu

盆踊り図Attributed to:

Hanabusa Itchô

latter half of the 17th to first half of the 18th century

MEDIUM/TECHNIQUEHanging scroll; ink and color on paper

DIMENSIONSImage: 41.4 x 63.4 cm (16 5/16 x 24 15/16 in.)

CREDIT LINEWilliam Sturgis Bigelow Collection

Detail of a Roman mosaic of a grinning skeleton, Pompeï - ca. 50 AD

 Kawanabe Kyosai’s “Hyakki Yagyo”. 19th century, Japan. Ota Memorial Museum of Art

Kimono. Taisho period (1912-1926)

Various Antique “Lover’s Eye’ Jewellery Pieces, c. late 1700s