art history.

"History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed. Art has remembered the people, because they created”- William Morris

[met-africa-oceania]

Bracelet: Figures in Relief, 15th–19th century, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas

Gift of Dr. and Mrs. Robert J. Sayer, in memory of Dr. Milton Gross, 1979 Size: H. 4 ¼ x Diam. 3 5/8 in. (10.8 x 9.2 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/314039

[bm-asian-art]

Netsuke Depicting Two Persimmons and a Snail, 19th century, Brooklyn Museum: Asian Art

Size: ½ x 1 ½ in. (1.3 x 3.8 cm) Medium: Ivory

https://www.brooklynmuseum.org/opencollection/objects/100559

[artemisia-gentileschi-art]

Self-portrait as the Allegory of Painting, 1639, Artemisia Gentileschi

Medium: oil,canvas

[its-ancient-history]

Interior of a partially restored Inca building at Machu Picchu

[aic-ancient]

Bead or Amulet in the Shape of Two Birds, Ancient Egyptian, -1550, Art Institute of Chicago: Ancient and Byzantine Art

Gift of Henry H. Getty and Charles L. Hutchinson Size: 1 × 2.5 × 2.2 cm (3/8 × 1 × 7/8 in.) Medium: Glass

https://www.artic.edu/artworks/140748/

[artist-munch]

The Sick Child I (Det syke barn I), Edvard Munch, 1896, MoMA: Drawings and Prints

Purchase Size: Composition: 16 ¾ x 22 ½" (42.5 x 57.2 cm); sheet: 19 13/16 x 25 ¾" (50.3 x 65.4 cm) Medium: Lithograph

http://www.moma.org/collection/works/75912

[loumargi]

Bronzino Agnolo di Cosimo ( November 17, 1503 – November 23, 1572) The hand of Cosimo I de’ Medici

[loumargi]

George Owen Apperley (1884-1960), The Girl with Oranges

[loumargi]

Helen Gotlib

[loumargi]

Henri Joseph Thomas (1878-1972) was a Belgian genre, portrait and still life painter, sculptor and etcher from the Belgian School, Brussels, Belgium.

[met-modern-art]

Plate by William De Morgan, Modern and Contemporary Art

Purchase, Edward C. Moore Jr. Gift, 1923 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Ceramic

[childe-hassam]

Late Afternoon, New York, Winter, 1900, Childe Hassam

Medium: oil,canvas

https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/late-afternoon-new-york-winter-1900

[met-greekroman-art]

Gold earring with rock crystal bead, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Gold, Rock crystal

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/243040

[venicepearl]

An engraving by William Sharp published in 1793, based on Boadicea Haranguing the Britons (called Boudicca, or Boadicea) by John Opie (died 1807)

Boudica or Boudicca (also Boadicea or Boudicea /boʊdɪˈsiːə/, and known in Welsh as Buddug) was a queen of the British Celtic Iceni tribe who led an uprising against the occupying forces of the Roman Empire in AD 60 or 61, and died shortly after its failure, having supposedly poisoned herself. She is considered a British folk hero.

[met-modern-art]

Torso of Nude Model, Kneeling by Wilhelm Lehmbruck, Modern and Contemporary Art

Bequest of Scofield Thayer, 1982 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Crayon on paper

http://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/483383

[met-american-painting]

Woman in a Blue Dress by Thomas Wilmer Dewing, American Paintings and Sculpture

Bequest of Robert Louis Isaacson, in memory of Mr. and Mrs. R. Kirk Askew, 1998 Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Medium: Pastel on brown wove paper, mounted on wood board

[impressionism-art-blog]

A Muse, 1887, Konstantin Korovin

Medium: oil,canvas