Caption information: Bildnis einer Dame mit entblosstem Oberkorper [Portrait of a Lady with bare torso (upper part of the body)] / 1907/08 / Bleistift, blauer und roter Farbstift [pencil, blue and red crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift”...
Sculpture; Bas-reliefs; Men; Military personnel; Soldiers; Military officers; People associated with military activities; Guards; Bodyguards; People associated with health & safety; Clothing & dress; Military uniforms; Uniforms; Belts...
"This piece depicts three soldiers in high relief in the foreground and two others, accompanied by a standard bearer, in bas-relief behind. The plaque's original upright is preserved in the lower right; the upright on the left is modern. As...
"This statue combines two antique fragments: Bacchus's torso and Silenus's torso and head, along with sixteenth-century additions including Bacchus's head, arms, and legs, and Silenus's arms and legs. The restoration is probably the work of...
Several boys pose for a picture at the pool in the Elks Club at the southwest corner of Third and Chestnut Streets in Louisville, Kentucky. Each boy wears a swimsuit that covers his torso. The pool area is decorated with tile. One boy sits on a...
Women; Men; Spouses; Couples; Heads (Anatomy); Hairstyles; Eyes; Marriage; Relations between the sexes; Crying; Mental states; Pain
"An obsessive self-portraitist, Kahlo reveled in her distinctive features - heavy, continuous eyebrows, piercing gaze, shadowy mustache, small but ripe, cherry-red mouth, massive dark hair braided like a halo in the traditional Mexican style....
Dwellings; Horse farms; Man o' War (Race horse); Horses
Elizabeth Daingerfield, horse breeder, with Man O' War, here 12 years old, at Hinata Farms near Lexington, Kentucky. Man O'War's torso is pictured as he stands with groom John Buckner, who wears a warm-up jacket and hat and holds the bridle, and...
Elizabeth Barrows Fletcher, niece of photographer Kate Matthews, poses in her wedding gown and veil. She stands against a plain background with sunlight illuminating the right side of her torso and face. Miss Fletcher married Charles William...
"In the center Achilles, still in a girl's clothes, is shown advancing to his left about to rush in the direction from which the sound of the trumpet comes. He is represented as a beautiful youth with red hair, his face bearing a feminine...
"This mosaic decorated the bottom of a shallow pool […]. The hole at its center belonged to a water jet. […] Its border consists of a band of twisted ribbon between plain bands. The emblema shows one of the popular episodes related to the...
"Daedalus, identified by an inscription, is shown with his legs wide apart with the left foot [taking] a step in the same direction. He is dressed in a short tunic held over his left shoulder with a large clasp. The garment is adorned with...
Well-known and widely reproduced photogravure of a marble bust of Irish-born actor John McCullough in the role of Virginius. With his head in right profile, McCullough's torso takes the form of a marble bust on a pedestal. McCullough performed...
Body parts; Animals; Insects; Medical equipment & supplies
Woodblock prints of, clockwise from top left: two-piece belted contraption with ties, possibly a girdle; anatomical drawing of a woman's internal organs, the most prominent of which is the bladder; skunk; anatomical drawing of woman's external body...
From Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV. "The seated statue of Khafre is one of a series of similar statues carved for the pharaoh's valley temple near the Great Sphinx. The stone is diorite, an exceptionally hard dark stone brought some 400 miles down...
Oscar H. Embry [or, possibly, Foster Embry] standing in front of a framed map of Kentucky, wearing a suit and tie. The photograph has been cut so that only his head and top half of torso are visible. Handwritten on back of image: Oscar H. Embry...
Sculpture; Heads (Anatomy); Portraits; Emperors; Rulers; People associated with politics & government; Men; Hairstyles; Crowns; Headdresses; Headgear; Leaves; Symbols
"[…] this portrait probably came from the forum's Augusteum (a shrine dedicated to the imperial family). […] In this portrait, the hair is combed forward, with short bangs over the forehead, formed by straight and regularly laid locks that...
