IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. This mahogany case is lined with ...

Drawing instruments have been essential to mathematics, architecture, surveying, navigation, engineering design, and other technical endeavors from antiquity through the 20th century, although ...

Whether you’re an artist, an architect, or carpenter, a T-square is an essential tool for your work arsenal. Like an upgraded straightedge, this drawing instrument helps you draw accurate, properly ...

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"Drawing Restraint" is a series of works created by the American artist Matthew Barney. The series encompasses drawings, sculptures, photographs, and films, all of which explore themes related to ...

Instruments like these were used by skilled draughtsmen (and women) in many drawing offices to produce engineering drawings for structures, such as bridges and building frames, at a time when computer ...

IN his preface the author states that we nowadays expect to find somewhere in print an account of the little mysteries of any particular art, and that partly with the hope of enabling this expectation ...

American WWII soldiers open a mold, exposing a solid architectural structure made entirely of petroleum jelly. The soldiers violently soften the structure with shovels. The wall of a large metal box ...

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