The 1000++ Artworks of media Wood and containing the word nicholas roerich, wood, byzantine, 1900

This highly spiritual and exquisitely rendered Christ Blessing was adapted from Byzantine icons brought to the Low Countries in the fifteenth century. The panel differs from the Byzantine models in the freshness of observation evident in Christ’s face and in the delicate articulation of the hands, t...

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The balance has three arms used for checking the weight of three different denominations of coins. Its carved with bird’s eye motifs. Pocket scales, which possibly emerged for the first time during the Roman period, were commonly used in Byzantine, as well as in the Ottoman and the contemporaneous W...

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A fragment from an altarpiece, this picture shows the early Christian martyr Justina in the guise of an elegantly dressed contemporary of the artist, thereby overlapping conventions of devotional images and portraiture. By the 1490s it was not uncommon for a wealthy person to be depicted as their pa...

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According to Biblical sources, Salome agreed to dance before her father, Herod II, King of Judea, in exchange for receiving the severed head of John the Baptist. Moreau treated the subject some fifteen times in oil. The majority of these paintings focus on the dramatic apparition of the head during ...

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