The woman is drawn in the center of the paper facing us. She’s nude from the waist up, her torso bends slightly to the right while her face turns left, her right arm is out with palm up and higher ...

A somber monochrome watercolor of mayhem and dissent at sea. The depiction of a sinking raft, with one furled and one billowing sail, stretches from one side of the drawing to the other. Great, curved ...

An rectangular opaque watercolor painting depicting a standing woman who is dressed in a long white dress and veil behind her head. The woman stands in the center and is looking down at a bush with ...

A floral vase containing large round cluster of small rust-colored flowers, reminiscent of hydrangeas, with a few green leaves poking out on left and right, rests on the edge of a table. The vase is ...

Dressed in a billowing white satin dress and small matching pumps, a woman at center looks back behind her, running along a path, past flowers and tall grasses on a hilltop under bright blue skies..

The gilt bronze sculpture is of a person standing upright and facing the viewer. They are standing barefoot on a small pedestal detailed with petals. The person’s right arm is down by their side, palm ...

With her large body and frontal pose, the Virgin here functions as a throne for Christ, a visual expression of her status as the Mother of God and source of wisdom. While the symmetry and rigid ...

Under a bower of twining flowered branches, a woman and a man sit naked, side by side in a garden, sharing a kiss. A long, pale orange serpent is coiled along the ground at their feet, its head rising ...

Hatoum, a Palestinian born in Beirut, uses everyday objects and personal artifacts to examine the effects of exile and alienation. For this work she collected strands of her own hair and painstakingly ...

This painting may have been part of the most influential and important group of altarpieces painted in Siena in the fourteenth century. The city’s cathedral was dedicated to the Virgin, and ...

On the side of the coin on the left is the head of a man facing right, wearing the skin from an elephant's head, trunk turned up and tusks protruding out, small dots surround the border. The other ...

Trained by his father, Cornelis de Heem belonged to three generations of artists who specialized in paintings of assembled fruits, flowers, and luxury objects. Here, De Heem depicts fruits and nuts ...