View allAll Photos Tagged URL

Each of the four gospels in this book opens on a page with brilliantly illuminated borders depicting the author of the text as well as birds-principally peacocks, symbols of the immortality of the soul-and fountains, representing the fountain of life and the salvation of the soul. This volume consists of 428 leaves with texts in Greek. Its level of sophistication suggests that it was probably written and decorated in a monastery in Constantinople.

Byzantium, Constantinople

 

ink, tempera, and gold on vellum; leather binding

Sheet: 28 x 23 cm (11 x 9 1/16 in.)

 

Did you know...

Gospel Books were carried in procession through Byzantine churches.

 

Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund

clevelandart.org/art/1942.152.23.a

<em>Luohan </em>are disciples of Buddha with supernatural powers and eccentric behaviors. This luohan is holding the peach of longevity (<em>shoutao</em>), while its mate is holding the fu-dog, symbolizing good luck. With carefree smiles and playful gestures, these two figures embody a humorous attitude and a detachment from worldly affairs. This pair of porcelain figures was perhaps part of a house altar set or a decorative item in a household.

China, Jiangxi province, Jingdezhen kilns, Qing dynasty (1644-1911), Kangxi reign (1662-1722)

 

porcelain with famille verte overglaze enamel decoration

Overall: 24.3 x 12.6 cm (9 9/16 x 4 15/16 in.)

 

Did you know...

This <em>luohan</em> with a bald head wears a monk’s robe made of patches.

 

Severance and Greta Millikin Collection

clevelandart.org/art/1964.191.1

reverse look up.

 

Enter URL - see related URLs & associated Top Stories

Claude Renoir, the Head Lowered (Claude Renoir, la tête baissée), c. 1904. Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French, 1841–1919). Lithograph; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Bequest of Elizabeth Carroll Shearer 2016.238

 

More at clevelandart.org/art/2016.238

In the Rimpa school of Japanese painting, decoratively arranged fans were a common subject. Hoshuku added individual twists to a formula perfected by Hoitsu (1761-1828), an artist four generations behind him in a lineage of master and pupil.

 

One of a pair with 35.150.

Japanese

 

Painting H: 46 x W: 19 1/4 in. (116.8 x 48.9 cm)

Mounting H: 80 x W: 24 3/4 in. (203.2 x 62.87 cm)

medium: ink and colors on silk

culture: Japanese

 

Walters Art Museum, 1990, by purchase.

art.thewalters.org/detail/6933

William Eggleston

Ashley Dawn Duffield serves as Mariak Industries’ sales development manager for apparel printing. ashley-duffield.livejournal.com/

December 23, 2013 at 09:00AM

Egypt, Middle Kingdom (2040–1648 BCE), Dynasty 12

 

silver foil over a clay-bulked resin core (?)

Overall: 1.2 x 0.7 cm (1/2 x 1/4 in.)

 

Gift of the John Huntington Art and Polytechnic Trust

clevelandart.org/art/1914.784

1 2 ••• 58 59 61 63 64 ••• 79 80