EditorialJosefa de ?bidos (Josefa de Ayala Figueira) (1630-1684). Pintora portuguesa. Sagrada Fam?lia con San Juan Bautista, Santa Isabel y ?ngeles, 1678. Museo de la Misericordia de Porto (Museu da Misericordia do Porto). Oporto (Porto). Portugal.
EditorialAllegorical performance with portrait of Philips Verheyen, Allegorical performance with portrait of Philips Verheyen. Philip Verheyen bust standing on base. Father Time reveals the naked body of Truth while a personification of Anatomy takes notes. Fam...
EditorialRosewood chair covered with green cloth, decorated with an orange cord, Chair of rosewood, covered with green cloth, with an ornament of orange cord. The slender legs exhibit house and articulation and stand on high feet. They are connected by eight ru...
EditorialBasin and Ewer, Ewer and Basin, Silver bowl, Silver bowl. Decorated with driven lobe ornament. An alliance weapon is engraved in the center of the scale: I = fam. Meerman, II = unfilled, auricular ornament, lobe style, ornament, Andries Grill, The Hagu...
EditorialDutch Association of Housewives, Silver Medal to Eye and Ring, donated to Janna Beunk for twenty-five years of loyal service with the Van Oordt family until Bunschoten van Oosten, v..z .: crowned weapon with Dutch lion in horizontally shaded circle wit...
EditorialNegative - Wando Vale District, Victoria, circa 1925, According to Chris McConville in Mum and Dad Made History (1988), under the Closer Settlement Act the government bought up and subdivided large properties in the Wando Vale area, and hundreds of fam...
EditorialSittella leucocephala, Print, The sittellas are a family, Neosittidae, of small passerine birds found only in Australasia. They resemble nuthatches, but whilst they were considered to be in that family for many years they are now afforded their own fam...
EditorialMilvago chimachima, Print, The yellow-headed caracara (Milvago chimachima) is a bird of prey in the family Falconidae. It is found in tropical and subtropical South America and the southern portion of Central America. Unlike the falcons in the same fam...
EditorialLaniarius cubla, Print, Laniarius is a genus of brightly coloured, carnivorous passerine birds commonly known as boubous or gonoleks. Not to be confused with the similar-sounding genus Lanius, they were formerly classed with the true shrikes in the fam...
EditorialSextus Tarquinius overwhelms Lucretia, 1578/79, copperplate, plate: 21.1 x 25 cm |, Sheet: 26.1 x 30.1 cm, U. M. inscribed: Henricus Goltzius inuentor et sculptor, Phillippus Galle exc., below the image field: Interea iuuenis furiales regius ignes, Con...
EditorialNoah's Ark. Old English Illustrated Hexateuch. England [Canterbury]; second quarter of 11th centu. [Whole folio] Genesis 7, 1-9. Noah's ark. Upper scene; God tells Noah to embark his passengers. Below; an interior view of the ark, with Noah and his fam...
EditorialOrthoptera is an order of insects with paurometabolous or incomplete metamorphosis, including the grasshoppers, crickets, cave crickets, Jerusalem crickets, katydids, weta, lubber, Acrida, and locusts. (ORDER— ORTHOPTERA. Section— Ambulatoiiia. Fam...
EditorialVilla Pisani, the ceiling fresco in the great ballroom painted 1760-1762 by G. B. Tiepolo, shows " the glory of the Pisani family". From the Pisanis, the villa passed to Napoleon I, his stepson Eugene Beauharnais, and to the Italian Royal fam...
EditorialMarriage Necklace (Thali), late 19th century, India (Tamil Nadu, Chetiar), Gold strung on black thread, Bottom of central bead to end of counterweight: L. 33 1/4 in. (84.5 cm), Jewelry, Elaborate necklaces of this type were presented by the groom?s fam...
Editorial'What are You Laughing at? To the Victor Belong the Spoils' (from Harper's Weekly), November 25, 1871, Wood engraving, sheet: 15 3/8 x 10 9/16 in. (39 x 26.9 cm), Prints, Thomas Nast (American (born Germany), Landau 1840?1902 Guayaquil), New York?s fam...
EditorialTwo Lovers, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1675?80, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 9 x 13 1/4 in. (22.9 x 33.7 cm), Prints, Hishikawa Moronobu (Japanese, died 1694), Moronobu, the earliest ukiyo-e master, was trained in his fam...
EditorialParis, ca. 1822?23, original marble version completed November 1812, Italian, Rome, Marble, Overall: 80 in. (203.2 cm), Sculpture, Workshop of Antonio Canova (Italian, Possagno 1757?1822 Venice), One of the great Neoclassical sculptor Canova's most fam...
EditorialAn?nimo, Castilla. Sepulcro de un caballero de la fam?lia de los T?llez de Meneses, hacia el 1300. Detalle. Talla en piedra con restos de policrom?a. Procede del Monasterio de Santa Mar?a de Matallana, Valladolid. Museo Nacional de Arte de Catalu?a. Ba...
EditorialGenl. Humphreys charging at the head of his division after sunset of the 13th Dec, 1862 December 13, drawing on tan paper pencil, Chinese white, and black ink wash; 36.6 x 53.3 cm. (sheet), 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist fam...
EditorialWhite Damask rose, Rosa Damascena flor. alba. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most fam...
EditorialWhite Damask rose, Rosa Damascena flor. alba. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "Bilderbuch fur Kinder" (Picture Book for Children), Weimar, 1790-1830. Friedrich Johann Bertuch (1747-1822) was a German publisher and man of arts most fam...
EditorialCUNQUEIRO, Alvaro (Mondo?edo, 1911-Vigo, 1981). Escritor espa?ol. Entre sus obras se encuentran "Mar ao norde" (1932), "Cantiga nova que se chama Riveira" (1934), "Merl?n e fam?lia" (1955) y "Un hombre que se parec?a a Orestes" (1968). Detalle de la ES...
EditorialThe wives of the Babenberg Margraves and Dukes. Third row, second from left Agnes, daughter of Emperor Heinrich IV and wife of Babenberg Margrave Leopold III (1095-1136), holding a model of the monastery church of Klosterneuburg. From the Babenberg fam...
EditorialVilla Pisani, the ceiling fresco in the great ballroom painted 1760-1762 by G. B. Tiepolo, shows " the glory of the Pisani family". From the Pisanis, the villa passed to Napoleon I, his stepson Eugene Beauharnais, and to the Italian Royal fam...