Topic: dance

Dance Wand

Shiva as Lord of Dance (Nataraja)

Heads of Hevajra and Four Dancing Yoginis

Shiva as Lord of Dance (Shiva Nataraja)

Chola period (880–1279)

Vajravarahi in Wrathful Posture

Vajravarahi derives from the boar-headed Hindu goddess Varahi (female aspect of Vishnu’s boar-headed avatar Varaha), reflecting the incorporation of Hindu imagery into Vajrayana Buddhism. The head of a sow proj... more

Dance of love from BL Royal 20 A XVII, f. 9

Detail of miniature Love's dance ( 'La karole damours') with ten figures dancing to drum and bagpipes. Image taken from f. 9 of Roman de la Rose (ff. 2-175v), la Bataille d'Annezin (a burlesque chanson in 50 al... more

Hilt, Perhaps from a Dance Wand

The Dance of Herodias' Daughter

The Dance of Herodias' Daughter [left half]

[Basse danse]

[Basse danse]

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Dance of Fauns and Bacchants

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Dance of Fauns and Bacchants

Dansende Amor

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Dance of Fauns and Bacchants

The Dance of Death

Anonymous, German, 16th century

Goddess of Dance (Nrtyadevi)

[Peasant dance]

[Dancing peasant couple] / AD [monogram].

Bradley Collection (Library of Congress). Meder, 88

Speculum Romanae Magnificentiae: Dance of Fauns and Bacchants

Dance of St. Mary Magdalene

Lucas van Leyden (Netherlandish, Leiden ca. 1494–1533 Leiden)

The Dance of the Magdalene

A Country Dance

Anonymous, Netherlandish, 16th century

Sposalizio del gobbo nan

The Count, from The Dance of Death

Designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)

The Countess, from The Dance of Death

Drawn by Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)

The Pope, from The Dance of Death

Designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)

Creation of Eve, from The Dance of Death

Designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)

The Nun, from The Dance of Death

Designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)

Dansende soldaat en vrouw

Adam Ploughing, from The Dance of Death

Designed by Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98–1543 London)

Dance of death. [from old catalog]Les simulachres, & historiees faces ...

November and December from The Peasants' Feast or the Twelve Months

January and February from The Peasants' Feast or the Twelve Months

The One to Whom Fortune Is Playing Will Dance Merrily from Six Saying...

Dirk Volckertsz Coornhert (Netherlandish, Amsterdam 1519/22–1590 Gouda)

[The parable of the prodigal son]

The Peasant Wedding Dance

Pieter van der Heyden (Netherlandish, ca. 1525–1569)

Il ballarino di M. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta, diuiso in due trattat...

This manual is one of the most important documents detailing late-Renaissance Italian court dance. Dancing master Fabritio Caroso (died 1605) describes fifty-four steps, provides rules for style and etiquette, ... more

[The Venetian wedding]

Orchesographie. Et traicte en forme de dialogve, par leqvel tovtes per...

Written by a French cleric, Jehan Tabourot, in the form of a dialogue between a dancing master and his student and originally published in 1588, this manual is an important tool in the understanding of late six... more

[The dances at their great feasts]

Native men and women dancing around a circle defined by posts with carved faces, three Native women stand together in the center of circle. Illus. in: Admiranda narratio, fida tamen, de commodis et incolarvm ri... more

Johannes Staden as prisoner in a circle of Indian women who dance arou...

Illus. in: Theodor de Bry, America, part 3, Frankfurt, 1593, p. 29. Reference copy may be in LOT 4411. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Shelf.

Festivities and spectacles

Festivities and spectacles

Fastnacht-Spiel zu Paris und dessen böser Äusgang

[Collation servie au cours d'un bal donné à Versailles en 1683]

Dancing monkeys

Mademoiselle des Chars dansant a l'Opera.

Venetian carnival figures

Habit de baccantes: Dolivar fecit.

Festivities and spectacles

Fastnacht-Spiel zu Paris und dessen böser Äusgang

Ver

Venetian carnival figures

Venetian carnival figures

Nobiltà di dame del sr. Fabritio Caroso da Sermoneta, libro, altra vol...

In this significant manual detailing late-Renaissance Italian court dance, dancing master Caroso redefines and, in some cases, corrects information found in his first treatise, Il ballarino (1581). The manual g... more

Le dieu marin.

Festivities and spectacles

[Louis XIII dansant au Louvre avec Anne d'Autriche]

Dancing monkeys

[Three masked performers with sea monsters]

[Ballet à la Cour de Suède]

Festivities and spectacles

Februarius Petrus Stephani inven

Print shows a calendar illustration for the month of February, showing a late winter celebration and feast, with much revelry taking place among those eating and drinking in front of a tavern or restaurant on t... more

Tenpio [sic] della pace, Intermedio sesto: Come: rapp. nelle nozze del...

Dance Under the Trellis

After Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, Haarlem 1610–1685 Haarlem)

Dance Under the Trellis

Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, Haarlem 1610–1685 Haarlem)

Comus le dieu des debauches et gens de joye: Il porte en son nom la si...

The Dance of the Beach Maidens

Furuichi Dance (No. 1 of a Set of Four)

Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868) Edo period (1615–1868)

Scene from the Noh Dance "Shojo"

Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771–1844) Edo period (1615–1868)

Furuichi Dance (No. 3 of a Set of Four)

Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868) Edo period (1615–1868)

Furuichi Dance (No. 2 of a Set of Four)

Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868) Edo period (1615–1868)

Furuichi Dance (No. 4 of a Set of Four)

Yashima Gakutei (Japanese, 1786?–1868) Edo period (1615–1868)

Scene from the Noh Dance "Kureha"

Teisai Hokuba (Japanese, 1771–1844) Edo period (1615–1868)

Round Box with Design of Bugaku Dance Hat and Musical Instrument

Case (Inrō) with Design of Dōjōji Noh Dance (obverse); Flowering Cherr...

Edo period (1615–1868)

Musical Instruments for the Noh Dance

Ryūryūkyo Shinsai (Japanese, active ca. 1799–1823) Edo period (1615–1868)

Designs of Fans for Dance

Ishikawa Kazan (Japanese, active 1810–1823) Edo period (1615–1868)

Carro d'Amore

Carro di Teti

[Peasant couple dancing]

Bello Sguardo and Couiello--Balli di Sfessani, 1621

Two men dancing.

Entrée de Monseigneur Henry de Lorraine, Marquis de Moy soubs le nom d...

Entrée de son Altesse à pied

Entrée des sieurs de Vroncourt, Tyllon et Mariment

Entrée de Monseigneur Henry de Lorraine, Marquis de Moy soubs le nom d...

Tempesta commossa da Amore ne campi Toscani: Alfonsus Parigius deli: e...

Avviso di Mercurio a Berecintia, dea della terra, et alle ninfe de cam...

Sbarco di Venere e della sua Corte condotta da Zeffiro nelle spiagge T...

Dance on the Village Square

Abraham Bosse (French, Tours 1602/1604–1676 Paris)

Dance on the Village Square

Abraham Bosse (French, Tours 1602/1604–1676 Paris)

[Funeral of Francesco de' Medici]

The Country Dance (Large Plate)

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

The Country Dance (Large Plate)

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

The Country Dance (Small Plate)

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

The Country Dance (Small Plate)

Claude Lorrain (Claude Gellée) (French, Chamagne 1604/5?–1682 Rome)

[Horse ballet].

[Egg dance]

Two satyrs and a faun seated to right watching two child satyrs and an...