Did you know? This jug is an “aquamanile”, a vessel for pouring water. It was used during the religious and secular ritual of washing hands by a priest before Mass. It would also have been ...

Works identified as being by this group appear regularly at auction. Since 2012 the record price for this artist at auction is 1,094,130 USD for A Bronze Aquamanile in the Form of a Lion, sold at ...

Among the highlights are a Limoges reliquary chasse, a Mosan lion aquamanile, thirty-eight pieces in a remarkable cohesive group of Italian maiolica, three of the very rare pottery objects known as ...

Milad Khawam is a trumpet player, producer & composer, based in Berlin and hailing in Damascus, where he studied classical and Arabic music. His debut album TO THE WEST was released in 2020 on XJAZZ ...

Autre méthode : porter des oreilles d’âne. Cet aquamanile – un récipient qui sert à se laver les mains – s’inspire d’un poème du XIIIe siècle. Aristote reproche à son élève Alex ...

Wilson The National Gallery's distinguished collection of decorative arts includes more than eighty works, such as Abbot Suger's jeweled sardonyx cup from the royal abbey of St. Denis, a Limoges ...

Wilson The National Gallery's distinguished collection of decorative arts includes more than eighty works, such as Abbot Suger's jeweled sardonyx cup from the royal abbey of St. Denis, a Limoges ...

À la fin du XIXe siècle, à Nantes, le fils d’un riche armateur passionné d’art fait construire le manoir de ses rêves. Entièrement restauré et modernisé, le musée redéploie ses trésors d’art médiéval, ...