EditorialMadonna and Child with Adoring Saints. Guglielmo Caccia, called Il Moncalvo (Italian, c. 1568-c. 1625); possibly Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli (Italian, 1672-1740); possibly Francesco Vanni (Italian, 1563-1610). Date: 1500-1599. Dimensions: 354 x 252 mm. P...
EditorialColumn (left) from Casa di Caccia Antica or House of the Ancient Hunt, VII.IV.48, Column (right) from Domus M. Asellini or House of Adonis, VI.VII.18, head of Oceanus from Domus M. Holconi Rufi or House of Holconius Rufus, VIII.IV.4, and decorated corn...
EditorialArabian and Spanish hunting scenes. At top, an Arabian knight hunts a boar, his slaves place it on horseback, and he presents it to a woman outside a castle. At bottom, a Spanish knight kills a boar, another a lion, a symbol of the Moors. Giostra o Cac...
EditorialSpanish bullfight scene, 18th century. Two picadors subdue a bull with lances, while a matador with red cape and sword prepares for the kill. Sword page or mozo de espadas with capote and sword behind the matador. Caccia dei Tori. Handcoloured copperpl...
EditorialMan the Farmer, Diana the Goddess of the Hunt, Design for Vaulted Ceiling, Sala dei Legislatori, Palazzo Conti-Sinibaldi, Faenza, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and ink, brush and brown wash over black chalk on laid paper, Bearded man plows with ...
EditorialDaedalus present the artificial cow to Pasiphae. Roman fresco.1st century AD. Casa della Caccia Antica, VII, 4, 48. Pompeii, Italy. National Archaeological Museum, Naples. Italy.
EditorialWall painting showing Theseus and Ariane from a tablinum in the Casa di Caccia Antica or House of the Ancient Hunt, Reg. VI, Ins. 4, No. 48. Illustration drawn by Discanno and lithographed by Victor Steeger from Emile Presuhn's "Les Decorations Murales...
EditorialSanta Maria Capua a Vetere, Province of Caserta, Campania, Italy, Europe. Campanian amphitheatre (Anfiteatro Campano). The Gladiator Museum (Museo dei gladiatori), bas-relief reproducing a hunting scene from the amphitheater, Caccia Caledonia (Caledoni...
EditorialSpanish bullfight scene, 18th century. Two picadors subdue a bull with lances, while a matador with red cape and sword prepares for the kill. Sword page or mozo de espadas with capote and sword behind the matador. Caccia dei Tori. Handcoloured copperpl...
EditorialArabian and Spanish hunting scenes. At top, an Arabian knight hunts a boar, his slaves place it on horseback, and he presents it to a woman outside a castle. At bottom, a Spanish knight kills a boar, another a lion, a symbol of the Moors. Giostra o Cac...
EditorialPlan der Casa della Caccia, Floor plan of the Casa the Dedal e Pasifae in Pompeii, Fig. 160, p. 202, 1856, Johannes Overbeck: Pompeji in seinen Geb?uden, Alterth?mern und Kunstwerken [...]. Leipzig: Verlag von Wilhelm Engelmann, 1856.
EditorialMadonna and Child with Adoring Saints. Guglielmo Caccia, called Il Moncalvo (Italian, c. 1568-c. 1625); possibly Giuseppe Antonio Caccioli (Italian, 1672-1740); possibly Francesco Vanni (Italian, 1563-1610). Date: 1500-1599. Dimensions: 354 x 252 mm. P...
EditorialOboe da caccia in F, 1720?40, Germany or Poland, German or Polish, wood, leather, brass, Length without crook: c. 87 cm (34 1/4in); Bell Diam. 10.8 cm (4 1/4in); Body sections: 66 cm (26in)-cannot be separated; Foot: 23.2 cm (9 1/8 in)., Aerophone-Reed...