EditorialBronze statuette of a horse, Mid-Imperial, ca. 2nd century A.D., Roman, Bronze, Overall: 6 3/4 x 2 7/8 x 9 1/2in. (17.1 x 7.3 x 24.1cm), Bronzes, The fine delineation of the horse?s musculature, the expressive rendering of its lively movements, and the...
EditorialAnatomy of the horse: musculature. Copperplate engraving by Milton from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.
EditorialNeck Muscles, plate three from Complete musculature in Natural Size and Color. Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty; French, 1710-1781. Date: 1746. Dimensions: 400 ? 320 mm (image/plate); 560 ? 392 mm (sheet). Color mezzotint with touches of engraving on cre...
EditorialNeck Muscles, plate three from Complete musculature in Natural Size and Color. Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty; French, 1710-1781. Date: 1746. Dimensions: 400 ? 320 mm (image/plate); 560 ? 392 mm (sheet). Color mezzotint with touches of engraving on cre...
EditorialLying lion, The animal was cast and then hammered and added. It is on four legs and looks up to the right. It has opened its mouth so that tongue and teeth are visible. Small ears. Moons arranged in rows with a separation at the back of head and neck. ...
EditorialGlass cameo fragment, Early Imperial, Augustan or Julio-Claudian, late 1st century B.C.?mid-1st century A.D., Roman, Glass; cast and cut, H.: 2 1/4 in. (5.7 cm), Glass, Translucent deep honey brown with opaque turquoise green overlay., Flat underside; ...
EditorialAnatomy of the horse: musculature. Copperplate engraving by Milton from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, London, 1820.
EditorialUnknown Artist, Assyrian Relief: WInged Spirit of Apkallu from Kalhu (Nimrud), Iraq, Northwest Palace, Room S, panel 17, ca. 875860 B.C.E., gypsum (Mosul alabaster), 90 9/16 in. x 58 3/4 in. x 6 7/16 in. (230 cm. x 149.3 cm. x 16.3 cm.), The winged fig...
EditorialPendant, 18th?19th century, United States, Hawai'i, Hawai'i, Whalebone, H. 2 3/8 x W. 1 1/2 x D. 1 3/4 in. (6 x 3.8 x 4.5 cm), Bone/Ivory-Ornaments, This rare whalebone pendant bears many of the hallmarks of distinction for which Hawaiian figural sculp...
EditorialNeck Muscles, plate three from Complete musculature in Natural Size and Color. Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty; French, 1710-1781. Date: 1746. Dimensions: 400 ? 320 mm (image/plate); 560 ? 392 mm (sheet). Color mezzotint with touches of engraving on cre...
EditorialLying lion, The animal was cast and then hammered and added. It is on four legs and looks up to the right. It has opened its mouth so that tongue and teeth are visible. Small ears. Moons arranged in rows with a separation at the back of head and neck. ...
EditorialNeck Muscles, plate three from Complete musculature in Natural Size and Color. Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty; French, 1710-1781. Date: 1746. Dimensions: 400 ? 320 mm (image/plate); 560 ? 392 mm (sheet). Color mezzotint with touches of engraving on cre...
EditorialFragmentary marble torso of a man, Classical, ca. 450?400 B.C., Greek, Attic, Marble, Pentelic ?, Overall: 15 1/2 x 22 x 10 1/2 in. (39.4 x 55.9 x 26.7 cm), Stone Sculpture, The elevated shoulder and turned position suggest that the figure was sitting ...
EditorialStair Riser with Marine Deities or Boatmen, ca. 1st century, Pakistan (ancient region Gandhara (Swat Valley?), Serpentinite, H. 6 5/8 in. (16.8 cm); W. 17 in. (43.2 cm), Sculpture, This sculpture and the triangular side relief are part of a set of twen...
EditorialNeck Muscles, plate three from Complete musculature in Natural Size and Color. Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty; French, 1710-1781. Date: 1746. Dimensions: 400 ? 320 mm (image/plate); 560 ? 392 mm (sheet). Color mezzotint with touches of engraving on cre...
EditorialNeck Muscles, plate three from Complete musculature in Natural Size and Color. Jacques Fabien Gautier D'Agoty; French, 1710-1781. Date: 1746. Dimensions: 400 ? 320 mm (image/plate); 560 ? 392 mm (sheet). Color mezzotint with touches of engraving on cre...
EditorialHuman musculature. Tashrih bi al-Taswir. Iran, 1672. The human body illustrating the muscular system. The face and outlines are blackened silver. A miniature painting from a seventeenth century manuscript of Tashrih bi al-Taswir, a treatise on human an...
EditorialBronze statuette of a horse, Mid-Imperial, ca. 2nd century A.D., Roman, Bronze, Overall: 6 3/4 x 2 7/8 x 9 1/2in. (17.1 x 7.3 x 24.1cm), Bronzes, The fine delineation of the horse?s musculature, the expressive rendering of its lively movements, and the...