His hand is close to the photographer so is slightly out of focus, and he cups his
Michel Sittow was born about 1469 of German-Scandinavian stock in the Hanseatic port city of Reval, now Tallinn, in Estonia. He probably received his earliest training in Reval from his father, also a painter, yet his apprenticeship in Bruges and years of work for Queen Isabel of Castile and for allied courts gave his art a Flemish and cosmopolitan flavor.
[Hand, John Oliver, and Martha Wolff. Early Netherlandish Painting.
head to look at a blue dog at her feet, while she reaches down with her green left hand
lower right in brown ink: McBey Antwerp 22 May 1926; lower left verso by later hand
Sitting before a table in the recesses of his prison cell, Saint Paul has brought his hand
Shown from the thighs up, a woman faces our left in profile as she lifts up one hand
Gentile da Fabriano’s patrons were princes, the church, and various city governments as well as the customary merchant clients. His art has a cosmopolitan flavor, in which brilliant color, textural richness, and ornamental pattern are combined.
His right hand, on our left, reaches up to gesture at her neckline.
cartoonist, Gauguin suggests what he looks like, showing only his head and one hand
model’s left arm was crossed above her right arm, with the thumb of her left hand
Among the most memorable characters in Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s hugely popular novel The Last Days of Pompeii (1834) is Nydia, a blind flower seller. In love with the noble-born Glaucus, who is engaged to Ione, Nydia knows the hopelessness of her position and endures her suffering with quiet courage.
She holds her left hand up to cup her opposite ear, with her elbow lifted as she
