EditorialMusashib? Benkei drags with a large temple bell, A ferocious looking man drags with a huge temlokloklok. The man is the famous warrior Musashib? Benkei, who, according to tradition, already possessed enormous strength at a young age. Exiled from the Mi...
EditorialPanel, dated 1296, Made in Egypt, Cairo, Wood; carved and inlaid, 8 11/16 x 5/8 in. (22 x 1.6 cm), Wood, Before becoming sultan in 1296, the Mamluk Husam al-Din Lajin spent a year in hiding at the dilapidated Ibn Tulun Mosque in Cairo. He vowed to reno...
EditorialTHE NORDENSKJOLD GREENLAND EXPEDITION, 1883: 1. The "Sophia," Nordenskjold's Exploring Vessel. 2. View of the Inland Ice in Greenland with Intermittent Hot Spring, Thirty Miles from the Coast. 3. The Inland Ice at the Furthest Point Reached by Human Be...
EditorialPaul Gavarni (aka Hippolyte-Guillaume-Sulpice Chevalier, French, 1804 - 1866). And here is the enormous secret that my husband has been hiding from me for a month. And you knew about it?... For six weeks, 1853. From Les Maris Me Font Toujours Rire, alb...
EditorialRelief with the Annunciation, the Visitation, the Nativity and the Adoration of the Kings, From left to right: the Maria message, between two columns the Visitation, the Birth and the Adoration of the Kings, the latter representation is separated by a ...
EditorialHenri Rousseau: Scouts Attacked by a Tiger (?claireurs attaqu?s par un tigre), Henri Rousseau, 1904, Oil on canvas, Self-taught artist Henri Rousseau created his enormous jungle scenes by studying the plants and taxidermy animals in Paris's natural his...
EditorialPierre Puvis de Chavannes: Dramatic Poetry (Aeschylus), Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, c. 1896, Oil on canvas, This painting is a scaled-down version of an enormous canvas?over 14 x 7 feet?that French artist Puvis de Chavannes painted for the Boston Public...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Washerwoman and Child (La Blanchisseuse et son enfant), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1886, Oil on canvas, Pierre-Auguste Renoir lovingly paints his wife, Aline, holding the first of their three sons. He made this work a few years after...
EditorialBalaeniceps rex, Print, The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) also known as whalehead, whale-headed stork, or shoe-billed stork, is a very large stork-like bird. It derives its name from its enormous shoe-shaped bill. It has a somewhat stork-like overall form...
EditorialBalaeniceps rex, Print, The shoebill (Balaeniceps rex) also known as whalehead, whale-headed stork, or shoe-billed stork, is a very large stork-like bird. It derives its name from its enormous shoe-shaped bill. It has a somewhat stork-like overall form...
EditorialRamphastos tocard, Print, Ramphastos is a genus of toucans, tropical and subtropical near passerine birds from Mexico, and Central and South America, which are brightly marked and have enormous, often colourful, bills., 1838.
EditorialRāva?a has a brother, the giant Kumbhakar?a, whom Brahmā had cursed to spend most of his life asleep. Rāva?a decides that he needs him to fight Rāma and sends an army of his demons to waken the monster. The demons try to rouse the prostrate K...