EditorialBanner of the yellow regiment, Yellow banner. Front and parade side identical. Along the top three lanes of red, white and black. In the upper neck a yellow rectangle with the coat of arms of Amsterdam, held by two climbing staring lions and covered by...
EditorialChrist in the House of Mary and Martha Christ in the House of Mary and Martha, On a rising floor is a set table, behind which Christ sits between John and Lazarus. To the right of them are two more apostles sitting on a table, the first one representin...
EditorialTwo wounded soldiers, the left staring ahead, the right with a cloth around their head, disabled soldier, emotional illness, derangement, madness, blind, blindness, Jacob Joseph Eeckhout, 1803 - 1861, paper, chalk, h 236 mm ? w 309 mm.
Editorials-Hertogenbosch siege by Frederik Hendrik 1629, Colored school plate, pasted on cardboard, iron reinforcement in the upper corners (disappeared below) and 4 holes through which 2 strings, landscape with city (m.) and in the foreground soldiers, Willem ...
EditorialCatherine of Alexandria, The saint stands on a versatile plinth with the right leg bent over Maxentius. She is staring straight ahead, holding a book on the left and in the right the lost attribute, the sword. A wound pearl band rests on the hair, whic...
EditorialBanner of the green regiment, Green banner. Front and parade side identical. Along the top three lanes of red, white and black. In the upper neck a green rectangle with the coat of arms of Amsterdam, held by two climbing staring lions and covered by em...
EditorialMaboroshi, Illusion., Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880, artist, 1857., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 33.1 x 23.1 cm., Print shows two men and two women sitting on the ground staring in disbelief at a wizard with an attendant floating on a cloud; corresponds t...
EditorialMaboroshi, Illusion., Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880, artist, 1857., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 33.1 x 23.1 cm., Print shows two men and two women sitting on the ground staring in disbelief at a wizard with an attendant floating on a cloud; corresponds t...
EditorialDavid, David stands on the left leg and has bent the right and slightly raised. The right forearm is bent forward, he holds the left hand loosely against the thigh. The head is turned to the left, the eyes are staring into the distance, David (not in a...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Boy in a Red Vest (Le Gar?on au gilet rouge), Paul C?zanne, 1888?1890, Oil on canvas, C?zanne lived in an apartment on the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris between 1888 and 1890. This painting of an Italian boy is one of the many figural works he...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Boy in a Red Vest (Le Gar?on au gilet rouge), Paul C?zanne, 1888?1890, Oil on canvas, C?zanne lived in an apartment on the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris between 1888 and 1890. This painting of an Italian boy is one of the many figural works he...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Boy in a Red Vest (Le Gar?on au gilet rouge), Paul C?zanne, 1888?1890, Oil on canvas, C?zanne lived in an apartment on the Ile Saint-Louis in Paris between 1888 and 1890. This painting of an Italian boy is one of the many figural works he...
EditorialGlass Negative - Troops Embarking HMT Orient Bound for Boer War, Melbourne, 15 Feb 1901, Troops embarking a ship in Melbourne, bound for the Boer War, probably on 15 February 1901. The ship, marked '24', is the HMT (aka SS) Orient, berthed at the 'Port...
EditorialHead of a staring man with curly hair, black chalk, wiped in places, Sheet: 32.5, 33 x 22.1 cm, Unmarked, Hans Baldung gen. Grien, (Werkstatt / workshop), Schw?bisch Gm?nd (?) 1484/85?1545 Strassburg.
EditorialChrist's head with a crown of thorns and the head of a staring man, 2nd half of the 15th century, silver pencil, on both sides white primed paper, sheet: 15.1 x 20 cm, unmarked, Anonym, Niederlande, 2. H?lfte 15. Jh.
EditorialMiniature of Noah's ark shown as a round, domed vessel, with birds and animals peering out of the portholes, with Noah and his family staring through a large opening on the main deck below. Les Croniques de Burgues. France; before 1407. Source: Royal 1...
EditorialEmblem 45; a hatching cupid. Notebook of William Blake. England; circa 1787-1818. [Whole folio] Top, a rough sketch of a face with open mouth and staring eyes [a mask?]. Emblem drawing of a hatching cupid; the wings on the infant human, and breaking sh...
EditorialBowl with a Gorgon's head surrounded by prowling animals, from Kamiros, Rhodes, made in Corinth. A frieze of panthers, deer, two sphinxes and a siren surround the staring face of the Gorgo Medusa. According to Greek legend, anyone who looked at the fac...
EditorialFemale Figure, 1st century B.C.?A.D. 3rd century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Jalisco, Jalisco, Ceramic, H.19 3/4 x W. 13 3/8 in. (50.2 x 34 cm), Ceramics-Sculpture, Large and hollow, this female figure was probably one of a group of similar ceramic sculpture...
EditorialLady discovering a man masturbating on a sofa staring at an erotic painting, 18th century. Woodblock engraving from John Cleland's Fanny Hill, Amsterdam & Paris, 1880s. After the original erotic illustrations by Antoine Borel, circa 1748.
EditorialTHE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE, DRAWN BY ROBERT BARNES, WRITTEN BY THOMAS HARDY, 1886; "Elizabeth, my child, come and hearken to what we are talking about, and not hide staring out o' window as if ye didn't hear.".
EditorialMaboroshi, Illusion., Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880, artist, 1857., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 33.1 x 23.1 cm., Print shows two men and two women sitting on the ground staring in disbelief at a wizard with an attendant floating on a cloud; corresponds t...
EditorialMaboroshi, Illusion., Utagawa, Kunisada, 1823-1880, artist, 1857., 1 print : woodcut, color ; 33.1 x 23.1 cm., Print shows two men and two women sitting on the ground staring in disbelief at a wizard with an attendant floating on a cloud; corresponds t...
EditorialNarcissus, Narcissus poeticus, flower fairy kneeling at the water's edge staring at her reflection, watched by dragonfly and lizard. Handcoloured steel engraving by C. Geoffrois after an illustration by Jean Ignace Isidore Grandville from "Les Fleurs A...
Editorial'A Horse Affrighted by a Lion', 1777. The picture is intended to express the terror of the horse and to invite the spectator to identify with the innocent and beautiful victim. The sublime emotional intensity is reinforced by the stormy weather and the...
EditorialAdoration of the Magi, Early Byzantine, early 6th century. An ivory relief panel of the Adoration of Christ. The Virgin Mary, shown with wide staring eyes and larger in scale than the other figures, holds the Christ child in her lap as he makes the ges...
EditorialThe Great Dish from the Mildenhall treasure, Roman Britain, 4th century. The staring face in the centre represents Oceanus, with dolphins in his hair and a beard formed of seaweed fronds. The inner circle, bordered by scallop shells, consists of sea-ny...
EditorialBowl with a Gorgon's head surrounded by prowling animals, from Kamiros, Rhodes, made in Corinth. A frieze of panthers, deer, two sphinxes and a siren surround the staring face of the Gorgo Medusa. According to Greek legend, anyone who looked at the fac...
EditorialLimestone ostracon showing a woman suckling a child, probably from Deir el-Medina, Thebes,20th dynasty. Later New Kingdom,1300-1100 BCE. Most ostraca from Thebes come from the town where the workers in the Valley of Kings lived. They show doodles,artis...