3 posts tagged with art by BWA.
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Bored in the pandemic, she made art by bruising bananas.
Prayer Nuts
Sixteenth century European Catholics with sufficiently heavy purses could upgrade their rosary beads with Prayer Nuts, virtuoso boxwood carvings of astonishing detail. You can get lost in these things, and probably the more so back in the day when, some believe, they were infused with scent, mixing the visual with the olfactory. They've been known to hit the market, latterly in the low six figures. [more inside]
Panoply - Animating the Ancient World
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