In this black ink drawing, Salome performs a belly dance, leaning to her left with her arms tucked behind her back. She stares directly at the viewer with a piercing gaze. Her peeled-back robe exposes ...
A man and a woman sit on a corner bench, gazing towards the left. The woman has her dark hair in a bun and wears a patterned jacket. Her face is lit by a small lamp in the upper left corner. The man ...
A silver vessel which has been polished to a high reflective shine. It is concave and round in shape, with a wide rim which features three shapes which rise up and curl away from the center of the ...
A helmet in a brown metal mostly covered in light green. It has a rectangular cutout in the front for the face. Running from the back to the front there are two parallel pointed ridges. There are also ...
A woman sits in a washroom with her left shoulder toward the viewer, face turned away. She wears a dark corset and billowy skirt with legs folded inward. She combs her hair with her right hand while ...
The vessel has a wide shallow rim and two horizontal handles and one long handle which connects to the rim. In red, black, and yellow there is a scene in two tiers. The lower tier depicts a man ...
The drawing in graphite and black chalk on tan paper depicts a woman standing in three quarters toward the right of the page, her head in profile with dark hair spilling behind her. She wears an ...
Two prints are shown, one on either side of a page published in the Revue Blanche. On the left is a sketch of a woman in a corseted dress and a tall bonnet. We see her in three quarter profile, facing ...
At its most basic level, casting bronze entails pouring a molten mixture of copper and tin into a mold and letting the mixture harden as it cools. In ancient China, the actual process was quite ...
At left, a young fair skinned woman with long wavy brown hair stands facing us, wearing only an ornate crown and jewels, a richly embroidered open robe around her shoulders. With a leopard at her feet ...
Degas displayed the wax figure after which this bronze was cast at the sixth impressionist exhibition, in 1881. The only sculpture that he ever presented publicly, the work caused an uproar for its ...
This portrait depicts the son of Colonel Louis Bro, a cavalry officer knighted by Napoleon. Géricault painted the colonel’s five-year-old son Olivier in the visual language of service to the empire, ...