Biblical Scenes
Mary grieving over the dead Christ.
PIETA
Brilliant blues adorn this Renaissance era book made by the Limbourg brothers.
TRES RICHES HEURES DU DUC BARRY
Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe is made with this method that allows easy reproduction of images. It is also known as serigraphy.
SILKSCREEN printing
Looks like a pincushion.
SEBASTIAN
They're made of terracotta and keep turning up in farmers' fields in Mexico. One has two heads.
TLATILCO FIGURINES
There's one of these at the bottom of the Isenheim altarpiece: it shows Christ being put in the tomb.
DEPOSITION
A man plowing, another herding sheep, and a ship sailing by – all oblivious of the feet disappearing into the sea.
LANDSCAPE WITH FALL OF ICARUS
The Sutton Hoo purse clasp is made with this method of enclosing precious gems in metalwork.
CLOISONNÉ
CECILIA
Huge staring eyes adorn these Mesopotamian statues that are designed to keep worshipping very attentively.
ESHNUNNA votive statuettes
Fra Angelico, Campin's Merode Altarpiece, and Henry Ossawa Tanner showed Gabriel telling Mary that she would bear Christ.
ANNUNCIATION
Pieter Aertsen's painting of a butcher's stall shows so much meat that you might miss this Biblical scene.
FLIGHT INTO EGYPT
Rembrandt's favorite method for black and white pictures, it uses acid to eat away a metal except for the part covered in wax, leaving the drawing behind.
ETCHING
Working on his book with his pet lion and a skull.
It's one of the "bones of the ancestors" for its tribe in Papua New Guinea. White people broke it.
AMBUM STONE
Titian painted Mary rising up into heaven without having died.
ASSUMPTION of the Virgin
Jean-François Millet painted French peasants bending over to do this.
GLEANING
Dürer's Rhinoceros was done in this technique.
WOODCUT
Floating in the air being tortured by demons.
ANTHONY
The rooks are warders biting their shields. The queen looks very worried. They're carved of walrus ivory.
ISLE OF LEWIS (UIGG) CHESSMEN
Masaccio's Brancacci chapel frescoes include this scene of Peter paying money that he found inside a fish.
The TRIBUTE MONEY
An old man and his son are stooped over doing backbreaking work in a bleak and hopeless setting in this painting.
COURBET'S the STONEBREAKERS
This is the term for the wood block printing method used by Hokusai for his Great Wave of Kanagawa.
UKIYO-E
This saint is depicted educating the Virgin Mary in a painting by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
ANNE
Harp-playing is one of the few identifiable activities of these very geometric statues from a prehistoric Greek island culture.
CYCLADIC FIGURINES