In the synagogue are mostly modest objects, like a dented lamp and architectural fragments, carefully explained.
Viewers eager for a bit of Byzantine glitter will find it here, though some of the more modest objects are just as richly cross-cultural.
These pictures provoke happiness if for no other reason than that they are content to be what they are, which is enough -- this being the same message they convey about the modest objects and people they depict.
The Blue Koran, its gold Kufic script simultaneously compacted and stretched horizontally performing a tightly sprung, lyrical dance across a sea of inky blue, is such a masterpiece.There are many more modest objects in the exhibition.
Co-curator Glyn Davies said some modest objects on display were as rare as any of the embroideries – the tools used to make them, excavated on a site in London, including scissors, a needle case, a thimble, and an iron needle so fine the eye is almost invisible.
The number of fricatives emerged as a modest predictor of small object responses (b = 0.04, t 95) = 1.73, p = 0.09), and the number of plosives was negatively associated, albeit weakly, with small object responses (b = –0.032, t 95) = 1.56, p = 0.12).
For his still lifes he chose humble objects (The Buffet, 1728), and for his genre paintings modest events (Woman Sealing a Letter, 1733).
Iyer is a genius and a more talented pianist than most will ever be, but he's also modest and objects to that label.
Because the writer of such classics as "Pride and Prejudice" and "Sense and Sensibility" died at the early age of 41 and lived in a modest fashion, objects associated with her are rare.
These topsy-turvy conditions are the background to "Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of 16th-Century Japan" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a carefully shaped and focused show of modest-sized objects and cumulative weight.
