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Brown, Kathryn Selig. “Life of the Buddha”, 2003, In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–, online; Brown, R. L., "Telling the Story in Art of the Monkey’s Gift of Honey to the Buddha", 2009, Bulletin of the Asia Institute, 23, 43–52, JSTOR
The Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History describes Beauty Revealed as a play on the eye miniatures which were then popular as tokens of affection in England and France, but not common in the United States. Such miniatures allowed portraits of loved ones to be carried by their suitors without revealing the sitters' identities.
Heilbronn (upper right) on the Neckar River, in southwest Germany. Heilbronn and its surroundings are located in the northern part of the larger Stuttgart metropolitan area. The city is the economic center of the Heilbronn-Franken region and is one of fourteen such cities in the Baden-Württemberg master plan of 2002.
Clay nail. One of the oldest diplomatic documents known, by King Entemena, c 2400 BC. Used by Sumerians and other Mesopotamian cultures beginning in the third millennium BC, clay nails, also referred to as dedication or foundation pegs, cones, or nails, were cone-shaped nails made of clay, inscribed with cuneiform, baked, and stuck into the ...
The history of Asian art includes a vast range of arts from various cultures, regions, and religions across the continent of Asia. The major regions of Asia include Central, East, South, Southeast, and West Asia . Central Asian art primarily consists of works by the Turkic peoples of the Eurasian Steppe, while East Asian art includes works from ...
Reliquary Cross, French, c. 1180 Domnach Airgid, Irish, 8th–9th century, added to 14th century, 15th century, and after. The use of reliquaries became an important part of Christian practices from at least the 4th century, initially in the Eastern Churches, which adopted the practice of moving and dividing the bodies of saints much earlier than the West, probably in part because the new ...
Palace of Versailles (1661–1710) The Louis XIV style or Louis Quatorze ( / ˌluːi kæˈtɔːrz, - kəˈ -/ LOO-ee ka-TORZ, - kə-, French: [lwi katɔʁz] ⓘ ), also called French classicism, was the style of architecture and decorative arts intended to glorify King Louis XIV and his reign. It featured majesty, harmony and regularity.
Miniature of Sinon and the Trojan Horse, from the Vergilius Romanus, a manuscript of Virgil's Aeneid, early 5th century. A miniature (from the Latin verb miniare, "to colour with minium", a red lead) is a small illustration used to decorate an ancient or medieval illuminated manuscript; the simple illustrations of the early codices having been miniated or delineated with that pigment.