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Hand of Sabazios 3rd century AD Bronze H. 12.2 cm Bronze hands characterised by three raised fingers (thumb, index and middle finger) were offered to the Phrygian deity Sabazios, whose cult developed in Rome during the Empire. They often display a multitude of attributes (a bust of Mercury, a pjne-cone, a vase, a serpent, a lizard, etc.). Durand collection, 1825 Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities Br 836 Text from: cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=9384&langue=en

Hand of Sabazios 3rd century AD Bronze H. 12.2 cm Bronze hands characterised by three raised fingers (thumb, index and middle finger) were offered to the Phrygian deity Sabazios, whose cult developed in Rome during the Empire. They often display a multitude of attributes (a bust of Mercury, a pjne-cone, a vase, a serpent, a lizard, etc.). Durand collection, 1825 Department of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities Br 836 Text from: cartelen.louvre.fr/cartelen/visite?srv=car_not_frame&idNotice=9384&langue=en

Artist: Pablo Picasso (Spanish, 1881–1973) Title: Gertrude Stein Date: 1905–6 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 39 3/8 x 32in. (100 x 81.3cm) 47 x 41 x 2 3/4 in. (119.4 x 104.1 x 7 cm) (Frame) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: Bequest of Gertrude Stein, 1946 Accession Number: 47.106 Rights and Reproduction: © 2010 Estate of Pablo Picasso / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York Description "For me, it is I, and it is the only reproduction of me which is always I, for me." Thus wrote Gertrude Stein (1874-1946) in 1938. For Stein, this painting was proof of her irrevocable link to Picasso, whom she would come to regard as the greatest artist of her time. She saw the painting as a collaboration between two emerging giants: a twenty-four-year-old Spanish painter and a thirty-two-year-old American writer, two expatriates in Paris, each as yet unrecognized but both destined for greatness. Picasso had always been drawn to poets-his studio door was marked "Au rendez-vous des poètes"-but Gertrude's appeal was especially strong. As Fernande Olivier wrote, Picasso "was so attracted to Mlle Stein's physical presence that he suggested he paint her portrait, without even waiting to get to know her better." They met after Stein had acquired several of his pictures. Although Picasso usually worked quickly, there were many sittings throughout the winter of 1905-6. The figure remained the same, but the head was repainted at least three times, evolving from a full profile to the nearly frontal view of the final state. Stein and Picasso remained good friends. She and her brother boosted his career enormously, both through direct purchases and by encouraging others-including Ambroise Vollard and Alfred Stieglitz-to do the same. Moreover, countless artists and writers first encountered Picasso's work at Stein's famous Saturday salons. Stein bequeathed the portrait to the Metropolitan in 1946; it was the first painting by Picasso to enter the Museum's collection. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/modern...

Title: Marble left hand holding a small box Medium; Technique: Marble Culture: Roman Period: Imperial period Date: 1st or 2nd century A.D. Dimensions: Overall: 3 3/8 x 7 7/8 in. (8.6 x 20 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1923 Accession Number: 23.209 Description: The hand must have belonged to a female statue. The box has holes on the lid, perhaps for sprinkling incense. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Title: Marble left hand holding a scroll Medium; Technique: Marble Culture: Roman Period: Imperial Date: 1st or 2nd century A.D. Dimensions: Other: 12 in. (30.5 cm) Classification: Stone Sculpture Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1921 Accession Number: 21.88.10 Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/greek_...

Artist: Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895) Title: The Pink Dress (Albertie-Marguerite Carré, later Madame Ferdinand-Henri Himmes, 1854–1935) Date: ca. 1870 Medium: Oil on canvas Dimensions: 21 1/2 x 26 1/2 in. (54.6 x 67.3 cm) Classification: Paintings Credit Line: The Walter H. and Leonore Annenberg Collection, Bequest of Walter H. Annenberg, 2002 Accession Number: 2003.20.8 On View Gallery Label: The fashionable portraitist Jacques-Emile Blanche, a friend of Berthe Morisot, recollected how and when this painting was made at the Villa Fodor, the family home of Marguerite Carré, the sitter: "One day, she [Morisot] painted before my eyes a charming portrait of Mlle Marguerite in a light pink dress; indeed, the entire canvas was light. Here Berthe Morisot was fully herself, already eliminating from nature both shadows and half-tones." But the painting required several sessions, since Morisot "constantly changed her mind and painted over what she had done once the session was at an end . . . ." "The Pink Dress" is one of the artist's few surviving early works. Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/collection_database/europe...

Bronze Hand of a Boxer Roman, 1st-2nd century AD Accession # 2001.219 The hand is clad in a caestus (boxing glove), comprising a semicylindical strip and a projecting spike, tied with cords running from the wrist. Although Roman boxers were represented in statues, mosaics, terracotta plaques, and lamps, bronze figurines, few objects show the actual boxing glove with such clarity of detail as the present piece. The hand is probably not a fragment of a larger composition; it was, perhaps, a votive, dedicated by a boxer on his retirement. Text from the Metropolitan Museum of Art label.

The Showboat Hotel & Casino is a New Orleans themed casino in Atlantic City. The casino is owned by Harrah's Entertainment. It is the first casino (lined up) on the Atlantic City Boardwalk. The hoel contains a brand new House of Blues ready for Atlantic City. The hotel consists of eight restaurants including the Canal Street Bread & Sandwich Company, Mansion Cafe, French Quarter Buffet,and more. In May 2003, the Showboat made a new 544- room, $9 million dollar tower. Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Showboat_Casino,_Atlantic_City

Artist/Maker Frank Duveneck (1848–1919) Title/Object Name Tomb Effigy of Elizabeth Boott Duveneck Date 1891; this cast, 1927 Medium Bronze, gold leaf Dimensions 28 1/2 x 85 x 41 1/4 in. (72.4 x 215.9 x 104.8 cm) Text from: www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOne.asp?dep=2&view...

Astoria is a neighborhood in the northwestern corner of the borough of Queens in New York City. Located in Community Board 1, Astoria is bounded by the East River and is adjacent to three other Queens neighborhoods: Long Island City (bordering at Broadway), Sunnyside (bordering at Northern Boulevard), and Woodside (bordering at 50th Street). There is some debate as to what constitutes the geographic boundaries of Astoria. Traditionally, Broadway was the southern-most limit, however many residents and businesses south of Broadway identify themselves as Astorians for convenience, since Long Island City is considered to be a strictly industrial area. The eastern section of Astoria, with Steinway Street as its main thoroughfare, is sometimes referred to as "Steinway" and considered to be a separate neighborhood. Text from: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astoria,_Queens

The remains of the Colossal Statue of Constantine I in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori on the Capitoline Hill are from the Basilica of Constantine in the Forum Romanum. The Basilica of Constantine housed the offices of the Prefect of the City, the highest ranking imperial official during the reign of Constantine the Great, and the colossal statue stood in the W. apse of the basilica. Constantine appeared seated, with a globe in one hand and the other hand raised in salute. The statue was an acrolith. Only the head, the lower arms, the hands and the feet were of marble. The rest of the statue, the parts covered by clothing, was probably made as a wooden frame covered with bronze or plaster. It seems the statue wore a crown or some other headgear, but nothing remains. The pieces of the statue were found in 1486 in the W. apse of the basilica, where it stood in antiquity. They have been in the courtyard of the Palazzo dei Conservatori since. text from: sights.seindal.dk/sight/921_Colossal_Statue_of_Constantin...

Lullaby: Madame Augustine Roulin Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse) 1889 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch (worked in France), 1853–1890 Dimensions: 92.7 x 72.7 cm (36 1/2 x 28 5/8 in.) Medium or Technique: Oil on canvas Classification: Paintings Type: Portrait - Single - Female Accession Number: 48.548 Van Gogh painted Augustine Roulin, the wife of Joseph Roulin, in bold, exaggerated colors against a vividly patterned background; the rope in her hands leads to a cradle. At right, the painter inscribed the title "La Berceuse," which means both "lullaby" and "she who rocks the cradle." Van Gogh once wrote, "I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize, and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our coloring." Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/lullaby-madame-augustine-r...

Votive hand for Sabazios cult Roman, Imperial Period, 2nd–4th century A.D. Dimensions: Height x width x depth: 14.5 x 4.4 x 4 cm (5 11/16 x 1 3/4 x 1 9/16 in.) Medium or Technique: Bronze Classification: Sculpture Catalogue Raisonné: Highlights: Classical Art (MFA), p. 044. Accession Number: 2006.1893 Hollow-cast in the form of a human wrist and right hand with long, thin fingers, thumb, index- and middle-fingers extended, ring-finger and pinky bent into the palm. A snake is coiled around the wrist and stretches across the back of the hand, its head the projecting above the knuckle of the ring-finger; also on the back of the hand are a frog and a lizard, as well as several inanimate objects: below the snake, a braided whip; above the snake, two flutes (one straight, one curved) at left, and a pair of cymbals at right. On the side of the hand, just below the thumb, a turtle; on the tip of thumb, a pinecone. On the front side of the wrist, right of center, an offering table. At the base of palm, a disc-shaped object, probably a loaf of bread; in the center of the palm, an egg-shaped object, perhaps another pinecone. Extending between the tips of the index- and middle- fingers, an eagle, perched on a stylized thunderbolt. Sabazios Hand is part of the worship of a Thracian/Anatolian deity connected with Jupiter; hands like these stood in sanctuaries attached to poles and were carried in processions. Text from: www.mfa.org/collections/object/votive-hand-for-sabazios-c...