The small Bible or prayer book she holds in her right hand and her conservative black
A disheveled figure with knee and head injuries and a crutch sits in a mostly empty tavern. Holding a glass of hard cider, he tells his tale to the tavern keeper, the younger man across from him.
He leans forward and points at the man sitting across from him with his right hand
Below the face, a forearm and hand clutching a rock appears next to another study
His right hand, closer to us, is planted palm out against his hip, and he holds a
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.
His hand is close to the photographer so is slightly out of focus, and he cups his
head to look at a blue dog at her feet, while she reaches down with her green left hand
Romare Bearden mined a wide range of sources: the Bible, the writings of French satirist François Rabelais, his childhood memories of Mecklenburg County in North Carolina, the people and streets of Harlem, the epic poems of Homer, and more.
Bearden portrays Odysseus poised triumphantly on the ship’s bow, a shield in one hand
blue, yellow, red, and pink flowers, woven with strands of ivy, dangles in the hand
His right elbow rests on the arm of the chair so his hand rests in his lap.
