"Man Ray's most famous photograph, Le Violon d'Ingres, combines Dada wordplay with Surrealist imagery. The nude recalls the odalisques of Ingres, while the title refers to Ingres's hobby - playing the violin (which led to the French phrase...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Eyes; Body parts; Clouds; Puns (Visual works)
"Magritte's False Mirror of 1928 depicts a large eye (from which the familiar CBS logo is derived). The black circle at the center can refer both to the pupil and to the eclipsed sun. The observer is thrown off balance by the unusual close-up...
The Louvre portrait is of a "young boy wearing a toga praetexta (a purple-bordered toga) and bulla (ornament worn around a child's neck). […] Comparisons with coins bearing the image of Britannicus exclude the possibility that this is a...
From the "Elements of Architecture: Column and Colonnade" section of the "Art of Ancient Egypt" chapter (Chapter 3). Elements included: capital; shaft; base; capital (double bull).
From the "Elements of Architecture: Mastaba to Pyramid" section of the "Art of Ancient Egypt" chapter (Chapter 3). Components highlighted are: mastaba (chapel, offering table, serdab with statue of ka, underground burial...
Rosetta Stone (top), with its three tiers of writing (hieroglyphic, hieratic, demotic) and eight hieroglyphs with the sounds they represent (bottom). From the "Hieroglyphic, Hieratic, and Demotic Writing" section of the "Art of...
Valley of the Queens, near Deir el-Bahri [Egypt], Getty Conservation Institute conservator S. Rickerby at work [restoring the tomb] in Chamber K. From the "Restoring the Tomb of Nefertari" section of the "Art of Ancient Egypt"...
Diagram of a hypothetical grid for canon of proportions in use during the Old Kingdom overlaid on a simple drawing of the statue of Menkaure and Khamerernebty.
Elements included: entrance; sed festival courtyard; South Palace; North Palace; court of the serdab; ka statue; funerary temple; large court; sham buildings.
