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This illuminated frontispiece from Walters manuscript W.624 has a central 12-pointed star (shamsah). The page is further decorated with floral motifs executed in gold. There are 5 seals.]]> 2012-02-20T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/78185/illuminated-frontispiece-with-shamsah/ http://art.thewalters.org/detail/39049/block-statue-of-senb/

This seated figures has his knees drawn up and his arms crossed on his knees. His feet are broken in front.]]> 2012-02-19T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/39049/block-statue-of-senb/ http://art.thewalters.org/detail/4044/buckle-with-lion/

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For years, Bannister painted landscapes with muted colors that recalled the works of the French Barbizon school so popular among New England collectors during the second half of the 19th century. However, in one of his last works, which he painted during a stay in Boston in the late 1890s, Bannister adopted a much more vivid palette. Bannister, the son of a black immigrant from Barbados and his Scottish-Canadian wife, was born in St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada. Initially a seaman, he settled in Boston, where he eked out a living as a hairdresser and as a hand-tinter of photographs. With the encouragement of his wife, he turned to painting and for a while shared a studio with Edwin Lord Weeks. His atmospheric landscapes found a ready market, especially in Boston. At the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876, Bannister received a first-place medal. He was the first African-American artist to win a national award, but the judges were surprised by his ethnic background. Bannister resided in Providence, Rhode Island, where he became one of the seven founding members of the Providence Art Club, an institution that still flourishes today. ]]> 2012-02-16T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/4695/boston-street-scene-boston-common/ http://art.thewalters.org/detail/8101/sketch-for-mud-pies/

Knaus made this drawing in preparation for his painting "Mud Pies" (1873) (Walters 37.21). A graduate of the Düsseldorf Academy, Knaus turned to naturalism and studied in Paris for eight years, where he achieved considerable success. He later served as an instructor at the Berlin Academy.]]> 2012-02-15T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/8101/sketch-for-mud-pies/ http://art.thewalters.org/detail/2457/the-nativity/

"Psuedo Granacci" is the name that Federico Zeri gave to an anonymous Florentine painter whose work is easily confused with that of Franceso Granacci (1469-1543). For more information on this tondo, please see F. Zeri's 1976 catalogue no. 75, pp. 112-114. Another painting by this artist is the Triumph of Chastity, Walters 37.458.]]> 2012-02-14T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/2457/the-nativity/ http://art.thewalters.org/detail/13995/krishna-with-butterballs/

The god Krishna is here a toddler holding not one but two balls of butter, stolen from his mother's pantry. ]]> 2012-02-13T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/13995/krishna-with-butterballs/ http://art.thewalters.org/detail/36963/pendant-isis-with-horus-the-child/

The surface of this large silver pendant representing the goddess Isis nursing Horus-the-Child has deteriorated. She wears a wig with the "uraeus" over her forehead and a small crown on top of which are horns with a disk in between. There is a large suspension loop behind the headdress.]]> 2012-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/36963/pendant-isis-with-horus-the-child/ http://art.thewalters.org/detail/77403/a-complete-set-of-canopic-jars/

This set of canopic jars was made to contain the internal organs removed from the body during the mummification process. The four sons of the god Horus were believed to protect these organs. The jackal-headed Duamutef protected the stomach; the falcon-headed Qebehsenuef, the intestines; the baboon-headed Hapi, the lungs; and human-headed Imsety, the liver.]]> 2012-02-12T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/77403/a-complete-set-of-canopic-jars/ http://art.thewalters.org/detail/7363/camel/

This double-humped camel with tiger-faced saddlebag raises its head and bares its teeth. Its maker modeled the figure, allowed it to dry, then covered it with a thin coat of white clay (slip) before applying lead silicate glazes of amber, cream, blue, green and brown. When the camel was later fired, the glazes ran together in the kiln, producing a mottled and streaked effect that evidently appealed to the Tang [T'ang] Chinese. Tie-dyed textiles of the period have a similar character. This camel, like all wares with lead-fluxed glazes, was made to be placed in a tomb, presumably of an important person.]]> 2012-02-11T00:00:00-05:00 http://art.thewalters.org/detail/7363/camel/