Friday, January 3rd, 2014 |
2:46 pm |
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12:55 pm |
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9:13 am |
Calcite-alabaster statue of a seated woman with braided hair... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72084928611 ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/3e0d7cbd6cade01c785007fab086ebd2/tumblr_myhl62C71Q1qzix81o1_500.jpg) Calcite-alabaster statue of a seated woman with braided hair extending to the small of the back and wearing full length garment; carved from calcite with polished surfaces
Sabaean
1stC BC-2ndC (?)
Made in: Yemen
The British Museum |
7:23 am |
Sculpted head of a man; calcite; inlaid shell eyes highlighted... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72079138126 ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/68ad098e816f4a64edac25567b9fb978/tumblr_myhkrlO9Fk1qzix81o1_500.jpg) Sculpted head of a man; calcite; inlaid shell eyes highlighted with blue glass. Pupils separately inlaid but missing their inlays; recessed eyebrows with traces of light turquoise glass coloured with cobalt and set in plain white plaster; moustache originally inlaid.
Qatabanian
Date: 1stC BC-1stC
The British Museum
Made in: Yemen |
11:04 am |
.David and Bath-sheba.
1784 (circa)
Print made by:... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72092691518 ![](http://24.media.tumblr.com/51cd55551952f131c999e00f4e25d4b8/tumblr_myhlq4KW7W1qzix81o1_500.jpg) .David and Bath-sheba.
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- 1784 (circa)
- Print made by: Anonymous
- Published by: Carington Bowles
- After: Carlo Maratti biography
- .Date1784 (circa)
- The British Museum
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5:32 am |
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3:41 am |
Low-tin bronze statuette of an ass; lost-wax cast; inscription... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72068220072 ![](http://31.media.tumblr.com/0872cd064f1bdca26f7ab22946474854/tumblr_myhk3eVmba1qzix81o1_500.jpg) Low-tin bronze statuette of an ass; lost-wax cast; inscription of four lines in South Arabian script on either side; minor blow-holes arising from the casting.
Ancient South Arabian
Date: 2ndC
Made in: Yemen
The British Museum |
1:51 am |
Rectangular, white limestone stela with a face carved in low... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72060376046 ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/66a8fbfb5064a5534c1d8526ab0b31c0/tumblr_myhjl71oed1qzix81o1_500.jpg) Rectangular, white limestone stela with a face carved in low relief within a coarsely, chiselled rectangular recess on one side and a line of South Arabian (Sabaean) inscription above human face, along top edge of same side; degraded chequer pattern in dull red brown paint over the flat face of the stela below the portrait.
Ancient South Arabian
The British Museum |
Thursday, January 2nd, 2014 |
8:19 pm |
The Large Power of Women Series
The Mouth of Truth; a woman... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72026745194 ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/606a06c5607591526c6d740325d5ef31/tumblr_myhj3yUaj21qzix81o1_500.jpg) The Large Power of Women Series
The Mouth of Truth; a woman kneels before the Emperor of Rome on his throne at r; her left hand is inside the mouth of a statue of a lion next to the Emperor and her right is raised before her; a band of onlookers watch from behind. c.1514 Woodcut
Print made by: Lucas van Leyden
Date: 1514 (circa)
The British Museum |
10:10 pm |
Head set in plaster
Calcite-alabaster, plaster
Ancient South... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72038423661 ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/9f3a38cf9f42e6e0853f6505b06e7170/tumblr_myhja51gVe1qzix81o1_500.jpg) Head set in plaster
Calcite-alabaster, plaster
Ancient South Arabian
Possibly 1st century BC - 1st century AD
The British Museum |
4:37 pm |
Painted Limoges enamel salt-cellar; copper, hexagonal; decorated... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72003147254 Painted Limoges enamel salt-cellar; copper, hexagonal; decorated with the Follies of wise men;
Attributed to: Pierre Reymond.
Date: 1542
The British Museum |
6:27 pm |
David and Bath-Sheba
Bathsheba reclining at the edge of her bath... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/72014829564 ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/8269463dbbf5f4b58a9929c622b3a0ec/tumblr_myhiw5SQJ21qzix81o1_500.jpg) David and Bath-Sheba
Bathsheba reclining at the edge of her bath on a palace terrace, while a maid washes her foot, with King David leaning from a balcony in the background to left; after De Troy; in a foliate border; illustration to Rider’s ‘Christian family’s Bible’ (1763-67).
Etching and engraving
.Print made by: Charles Grignion
After: Jean François de Troy.
Date: 1763-1767 (circa)
The British Museum |
12:55 pm |
Study of a musician for the painting ‘The Queen of... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/71980964902 ![](http://31.media.tumblr.com/55cf1ecb515e9543222a28073f7da189/tumblr_myhic6FRd21qzix81o1_500.jpg) Study of a musician for the painting ‘The Queen of Sheba’s Visit to King Solomon’ heightened with white, on red-brown paper
Drawn by: Edward John Poynter
Date: 1891 (circa)
The British Museum |
2:46 pm |
Edward John Poynter
(England 20 Mar 1836 – 26 Jul... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/71991704431 ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/a1ab5045b26c7322a2806b5d66ebbfbd/tumblr_myhig2T33q1qzix81o1_500.jpg) Edward John Poynter
(England 20 Mar 1836 – 26 Jul 1919)
Title
Study for the Queen of Sheba
Year
circa 1889
The Art Gallery of New South Wales |
11:05 am |
Abelae Mulier
Title (series) Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/71971685819 ![](http://25.media.tumblr.com/b09c17affa284ad85e32a885b697e6a9/tumblr_myhh06QVEy1qzix81o1_500.jpg) Abelae Mulier
Title (series) Icones Illustrium Feminarum Veteris Testamenti (The Celebrated Women of the Old Testament)
Plate 15: The wise woman of Abel Beth-Maachab
Print made by: Jan Collaert II
Published by: Philips Galle
After: After: Maarten de Vos
Date: 1590-1595 (c.)
The British Museum |
7:23 am |
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9:14 am |
Study of an male attendant related to the painting ‘The... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/71964439792 ![](http://31.media.tumblr.com/bca4747e78db9661f38d0e9023af676c/tumblr_myhgkesXl71qzix81o1_500.jpg) Study of an male attendant related to the painting ‘The Queen of Sheba’s Visit to King Solomon’
Drawn by: Edward John Poynter
1891 (circa)
The British Museum |
3:41 am |
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5:32 am |
Photograph (black and white); a woman, Sheba, and her husband... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/71953454483 ![](http://24.media.tumblr.com/6c089767a6805e50c60fd43fe2430f68/tumblr_myhf1iKiyj1qzix81o1_500.jpg) Photograph (black and white); a woman, Sheba, and her husband posing for a portrait against a neutral backdrop; she is standing and wears a dress made of patterned cloth; he is sitting and wears a tailored suit jacket and patterned cloth wrap around his waist; Tutuila (?), American Samoa. Gelatin silver print
Late 19th Century
The British Museum |
1:51 am |
The Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon; kneeling at the bottom... http://centuriespast.tumblr.com/post/71940117036 ![](http://24.media.tumblr.com/4fa4b83d73a7038f317f87ffccd944ec/tumblr_myhdd1mbY21qzix81o1_500.jpg) The Queen of Sheba visiting King Solomon; kneeling at the bottom of the steps leading to Solomon’s throne at right; her entourage following with gifts at left; from the ‘Icones Biblicae’, published by Merian in Frankfurt before 1630. c.1625-30
Etching
Print made by: Matthäus Merian Published by: Matthäus Merian
.Date: 1625-1630
The British Museum |