Antique Exercise

The term AMBT (Amt, 'office, charge') denotes an official function exercised on behalf of an authority — a pastorate, magistracy, or territorial administration.

The series of stations is as follows: (1) Jesus is condemned to death (2) Jesus is made to bear his cross (3) Jesus falls the first time (4) Jesus meets his mother (5) Simon (of...

The series of stations is as follows: (1) Jesus is condemned to death (2) Jesus is made to bear his cross (3) Jesus falls the first time (4) Jesus meets his mother (5) Simon (of...

The series of stations is as follows: (1) Jesus is condemned to death (2) Jesus is made to bear his cross (3) Jesus falls the first time (4) Jesus meets his mother (5) Simon (of...

Sheraton comments on the design saying the chair was intended “to make the exercise (of reading) easy, and for the convenience of taking down a note or quotation from any subject.”

Sheridan was angered at the tone of an order given by Cadet Sergeant William Terrill during an exercise, and shouted, “Goddamn you, sir, I’ll run you through!”

They were carefully instructed in every exercise of strength and agility, and usually repayed the kindness of their masters, the Beys, with the warmest gratitude and most valiant ser...

There can be little doubt that Shearer exercised considerable influence over George Hepplewhite, with whom there is reason to suppose that he was closely associated, while Thomas She...

In this new continent, he has the leisure to exercise his multiple talents as an architect, painter and reporter, in different countries such as Ethiopia, Nigeria, South Africa, Cong...

Lu Ji’s bird-and-flower paintings graced not only the imperial courts of China, but also the halls of the feudal lords of Japan, where they exercised an important influence on the de...

All armchairs finely hand painted on the outside frames with scenes of every-day country life, fishing, hunting, harvesting, traveling, courting, riding on boats, lecturing, exercisi...

In some ways, these resembled modern-day destination spas as there were facilities for a variety of activities from exercising to sunbathing to swimming and massage. Such was the im...

Perhaps he assumed that once students mastered the basic skills, they would perfect their art by analyzing and experiencing Rembrandt, Titian, Leonardo, and Giorgione — those painter...

Here the pictorial masterpieces are born: the Virgin of the Rocks in the two versions of Paris and London and the exercise for the bronze equestrian monument to Francesco Sforza.

There is no information regarding Donnini's pictorial training, whose documented activity, exercised in his Florentine studio in via del Maglio, began in 1843, the year in which he p...

On this chest, the craftsman further complicates the exercise by adding gold-tinted wood to the main center panel adorned with most intricate single green shaded two leaf flower stem...

In the degenerate art exhibition in 1937, the Nazis represented 8 of his works as a propaganda exercise and in 1938 he was expelled from the Prussian Academy of Arts because of his m...

leads us to believe that it could be a calligraphic exercise rather than a real message. In any case, Walter Spies' use of it (the text is upside down when the cardboard is turned ov...

After two years, it became very debilitated from those early wounds and exercise became painful and problematic. Someone came up with a plan to keep the animal moving, and a giganti...

It was not only awarded a high distinction, but created a sensation, a most unusual thing for the first exhibited work of an unknown artist. The fascination exercised by the painti...

Pacilli, at his studio ‘poco prima dell’Arco della Regina alla Trinita dei Monti,’ exercised, what the nineteenth-century scholar, Adolf Michaelis called ‘rejuvenating arts’ on seve...

In 1891, the oil paintings "Preparation for the Service", "In the guardroom", tattoo", "gymnastics lesson", "covert patrol” and "return from the field service exercise”, whose main ...

Artists painting state seals in early America often exercised great liberty in their work, but this example is surprisingly true to form.

His work can be divided into two concurrent but distinct styles: the first owing more to the legacy of Oeben, being of large, solid forms, more noble in style; the second, although r...

Only in Japan, however, did collectors convene to contemplate them one by one. In an exercise of poetic free association, each participant compared a shell’s form to that of somethin...

Each head and each piquant face is but a field where the ever-present artist can exercise his ingenuity and his skill in colour and design” (Dorothy Menpes, Japan: A Record in Colour...