the demonstration of female figures on sasanian silver vessels was an interesting subject to sasanian silversmiths which caused much dispute among the scholars over whose character the female figure represents. are they representations of the goddess anahita or members of her cult? is there any connection between them and the cult of asiatic dionysus? the other question that arises is whether t...

Cabinet paintings showing an (art) collection in interior developed as a genre the early seventeenth century Antwerp. The depicted could be actual art imagined, idealized interior, or, more metaphorically, it also fictional of paintings, sculptures, scientific instruments, silverwork, textiles, and naturalia such flowers or shells. Jan Bruegel Elder (1568–1625) Pieter Paul Rubens (1577–1640), a...