Items matching art

Shelter.

Shelter by Arthur Hopkins. Two boys and two girls use a rocky ledge by the sea as shelter from the rain. The girls have dresses, and the boys are barefoot, and have sun-hats, suggesting that it is Sum [...]

Keywords: art, people, bare feet, storms

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-08-20

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La Peinture

Painting. Dessiné et composé par Galland, d’après son plafond chez M. Sedille. I understand the caption to mean that Galland designed and painted the mural, which is at the house of Monsieur Sedille. [...]

Keywords: cherubs, art, butterflies, nudity

Places shown: none

Added: 2007-02-04

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Evangelist with lion

A bearded man, perhaps in his thirties or forties, sits holding a book in his lap; to his left is a writing stand with an open manuscript; he holds a quill pen to his eye. There is a lion behind him, [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, animals, windows, writing, pictures of books, religion, scholars, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-09-30

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Miniature painting of a portrait artist with easel

A Mediæval (OK, Medieval in America) miniature painting taken from a Latin book of hours. The artist is wearing a red gown and a blue hood and stole or scarf. He is painting a woman, holding his brush [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, animals, windows, christmas

Places shown: none

Added: 2006-03-01

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Miniature: Garden of Gethsemanu

The disciples of Jesus sleep while Jesus prays, “let this cup be taken from me,” although since they were asleep no-one actually heard his prayer. The disciples are depicted as caucasian men with bar [...]

Keywords: colour, people, art, religion, gardens, bare feet, beards, prayer, christmas

Places shown: Jerusalem; Israel

Added: 2006-09-30

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