CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s often easier to appreciate the imagery in a great work of art than to understand exactly how it was made, and how an artist’s use of any specific material affected the creative ...

In France, the use of alabaster began in the late 1200s for funerary monuments. The Archangel Gabriel, together with its counterpart, the Virgin Mary (now in the Louvre Museum, Paris) is part of an ...

The English Reformation of the 1530s wasn’t just an upheaval of the country’s spirituality as the Church of England severed its Catholic ties; it disrupted whole industries. One was the alabaster ...

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This 2,700 year old relief uncovered by archaeologists in northern Iraq depicts a lamassu, an Assyrian deity portrayed with a human head, the body of a bull and the wings of a bird — Zaid AL-OBEIDI A ...

8 inches x 3 1/2 inches x 13 inches 7 inches x 9 inches x 18 1/2 inches 9 inches x 11 inches x 2 inches ...

Price 12 1-2 cents. Incorporated 1841. Catalogue of the Second Annual Exhibition of Paintings and Statuary, by the Cincinnati Academy of Fine Arts, at the Mechanics' Institute. Cincinnati: Kendall & ...

14.5 x 17 x 10 in. (36.8 x 43.2 x 25.4 cm.) Subscribe now to view details for this work, and gain access to over 18 million auction results. Purchase One-Day Pass ...

A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster sculpture of the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu, which was found largely intact despite its large dimensions. Only the head was missing, ...

A dig in northern Iraq has unearthed a 2,700-year-old alabaster sculpture of the winged Assyrian deity Lamassu, which was found largely intact despite its large dimensions.