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A 51,000-year-old painting in the Sulawesi cave "art gallery" is the oldest evidence of narrative rock art ever discovered. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue.

Moser, Joann, "Visual Poetry: the drawings of Joseph Stella," Washington, D.C.: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution Press, 1990, fig. 5. Half-length portrait of an elderly man ...