In about 25 BC, tribesmen of the kingdom of Meroe placed a bronze head of Augustus, cut
from a full-length statue, beneath the steps of a temple of victory: the decapitated head of the …

The Madonna of Chancellor Rolin (fig. i), painted by Jan van Eyck about I435, has long
attracted great interest, not only for its spellbinding realism and glowing color, but also for …

In sixteenth-century Venice, paintings were often treated as living beings. As this book
shows, paintings attended dinner parties, healed the sick, made money, and became …

Abstract Margherita Paleologa, duchess of Mantua and marchesa of Montferrat, participated
in patronage activities that differed from those of her famous predecessor and mother-in-law …

The deluxe 14 th-century Miracles of the Virgin manuscript, Paris, BnF, n. acq. fr. 24541,
containing poetry, songs, and prayers by the Benedictine monk Gautier de Coinci (c. 1177 …

Music-making angels change their appearance in fifteenth-century Florentine art,
transitioning from silent adoration in Nativity of Christ scenes from the Trecento to …

The first part of this study investigates the supplicants' relations and interactions based on
their position within an artwork. I analyze the importance of being visible and its connection …

The neo-Stoic postulate of indifference to worldly events found particularly fertile ground at
the end of the sixteenth and beginning of the seventeenth century due to increasing …

In the late 1640s, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione produced two series of etchings, which
historians have named his Oriental Heads, depicting a variety of figures in exotic headgear …

En 2003, lors de l'arrivée en Iraq de la coalition dirigée par les États-Unis, un grand nombre
de portraits de Saddam Hussein, dirigeant de l'Iraq à l'époque, furent détruits. Deux ans …