The article provides a thorough analysis of the rattles depicted in Maya art, including their construction, decoration, and playing techniques. gourd vessel rattle is most frequently musical instrument appearing 108 iconographic sources. vary shape, size, adornment, with some being elaborately decorated others unadorned. author uses insights mostly from evidence to classify into different types...

This paper discusses the intense presence of Eros figures in funerary monuments from region Macedonia during roman period, evolving around perception death, familial bonds and social structure that these reveal. Eros, depicted either leaning on or holding an inverted torch, sleeping a rock, when placed upon graves is perceived as funéraire. The connotations often assimilate them with Sleep, Dea...

Prince is an artist who integrates elements from the sacred into his work. He uses popular iconography to present himself as an icon of consumer culture, as a deified ‘rock god’ worshipped by his fans, and as a preacher leading his audience like a congregation. His personality cult mixes spirituality and sexuality, and deals with issues of ecstasy and liberation, a transgressional approach that...