"This ring is formed from a circular hollow band made from rolled and soldered gold leaf, which flares out near the bezel. The bezel, rectangular in shape but with rounded corners, is set with a blue-tinged agate in two layers against a white...
Sculpture; Portraits; Women; Empresses; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Upper class; Hairstyles
Figure 63. Front view of Figure 3. Livia. Cat. 64: Arsinoe. Copenhagen, Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek 1444. (caption, p.77); Purchased in Egypt in 1896 but said to have been found the previous year in niches in the amphitheater of Arsinoe with busts of...
Figure 89. Detail of Figure 88. [Cat. 24: Paestum]. Madrid, Museo Arqueologico. (caption, p.111); Found in Paestum in 1860, along with a seated statue of Tiberius. (p.156)
"The First Days of Spring inaugurated a series of works in which, determined to be more Surrealist than the Surrealists themselves, Dali elaborated a symbolic language for delineating, with microscopic precision, his erotic obsessions. It...
Sculpture; Metalwork; Abstract sculpture; Abstract works
"In formal terms, this sculpture manages to harmonize the claims of an aspiring, organic element within and the protective, enveloping characteristics of an outer casing. This is achieved via Moore's signature 'holes'. (Caption, p.68);...
"Autograph drawing. Schematic pen sketch for a figure on the Sistine Chapel Vault or for one of the Popes. (Florence. Casa Buonarroti. See Exhibition of drawings by Michelangelo. Catalogue edited by P. Barocchi, page 35)." (caption,...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
"From the 'King's Grave' at Ur comes a splendid lyre that, in its restored state, resembles the instrument depicted in the feast scene on the Standard of Ur [from Tomb 779]. A magnificent bull's head caps the instrument's sound box. It is...
From the Acropolis, Athens, Greece. "A stylistic 'sister' to the Anavysos kouros is a statue of a kore wearing a peplos, a simple, long, woolen belted garment, which gives the female figure a columnar appearance. Traces of paint are preserved...
Roman copies of c. 477 BCE Greek bronzes by Kritios and Nesiotes; "The head of Harmodios [figure on right], taken to be similar to that of the Kritios Boy, has a typically Archaic hairstyle (closely packed, patterned curls) juxtaposed with a...
Baseball cards; Athletes; Baseball players; New York Giants (Baseball team)
J.J. McGraw, John McGraw or John Joseph McGraw (1873-1934) also known as Mugsy and Little Napoleon. Color portrait of John McGraw with the New York Giants. Verso: John J. McGraw. When John J. McGraw took hold of the Giants, July 19, 1901, their...
City & town life; Sculpture; Automobiles; Office buildings; Buildings; Transportation
Address: 500 block of W. Jefferson Street, Louisville, Kentucky. Rows of black automobiles and a statue of Thomas Jefferson can be seen from the South-facing steps of the Courthouse. Jefferson's figure is posed atop a bell-shaped pedestal adorned...
Address: 900 block of Goss Avenue, Louisville, Kentucky. A cobblestone road with trolley tracks runs in front of the Louisville Textile Mills. Utility lines are in a line down the sidewalk and the property is surrounded by a chain link fence. At...
Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.); Hospitals; Nurses; Physicians; Sick persons; Health care facilities; People
A doctor wears a smock and holds a needle over a draped figure. Next to him is a small table with several stoppered bottles and needles. The nurse stands by a piece of equipment composed of a two glass jars and some tubing. The window stands open...
Portrait of Nancy Hall Pearson (Mrs. Ellerbe W.) Carter of Louisville, Kentucky, wearing a hat and fur around her neck. Photograph has been drawn on and several spots of discoloration. Stamped on bottom, front of image: Standiford, Louisville....
Stairway to mezzanine at Loews Theater on Fourth Street between Broadway and Chestnut, Louisville, Kentucky. Two coterminous flights of filigree-railed stairs (broken only by a small landing half the way up, over which pillars support a small roof)...
