EditorialFrom left, the lawyer Doug Coltart, journalist Jeffrey Moyo, his wife Purity, and lawyer Beatrice Mtetwa, outside the courtroom in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Jan. 11, 2022. (The New York Times)
EditorialMirror with Images of Purity and Immortality: Mount Penglai, Boya Playing the Qin (Zither), Lotus Pond, and Dancing Phoenix. China. Date: 700 AD-800 AD. Dimensions: Diam. 17.4 (6.8 in.); d. 0.6 cm (0.2 in.). Bronze. Origin: China.
EditorialTypes of hygrometers, 18th century, to measure moisture content by Anderson 8, Dr. Robert Hooke 9,10, Dr. Hale 11, James Ferguson 12,13, and Bradford's hydrostatical instrument for weighing coin and checking weight and purity 1-3. Copperplate engraving...
EditorialJeffrey Moyo, second from left, conferring with his lawyers, Doug Coltart and Beatrice Mtetwa, outside the courtroom in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, on Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2022, as Moyo’s wife, Purity, second from right, listens. (The New York Times)
EditorialWorkers crush cobalt-laden rocks to test their purity at the makeshift mine in Kasulo, Congo, on April 26, 2021. (Ashley Gilbertson/The New York Times)
EditorialTypes of hygrometers, 18th century, to measure moisture content by Anderson 8, Dr. Robert Hooke 9,10, Dr. Hale 11, James Ferguson 12,13, and Bradford's hydrostatical instrument for weighing coin and checking weight and purity 1-3. Copperplate engraving...
EditorialBamboo, Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire), In Japan, bamboo (take) is a symbol of prosperity. It is also a symbol of purity and innocence. This stencil has remnants of dye and sho...
EditorialMale torso, marble, chiseled, drilled, marble, chiseled, Total: Height: 59,90 cm; Width: 38,40 cm, sculptures, standing figure, contrapost, upper part of the body (torso), male nude, High Classical (Greek antiquity), torso of a naked, standing young ma...
EditorialWoman Grasping a Tree?Branch, early 18th?century, Opaque watercolor and gold on paper, 5 3/16 ? 2 3/4 in. (13.2 ? 7 cm), While this painting is a lovely rendering of a beautiful, well-dressed woman of high rank, it also evokes several Indian visual tra...
EditorialThe Temple of Purity; or, Master Billy Pit-i-full's Introduction, Annibal Scratch, active 1791, 1784, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 7 7/8 x 12 3/8in. (20 x 31.4cm).
EditorialEmblem: virgin Portrait of Lucretia Virgo (title on object), On top of a pedestal a medallion decorated with flowers with the portrait of the Roman virgin Lucretia. The pedestal bears a representation of a budding tulip, surrounded by a swarm of bees. ...
EditorialSītā casts herself into the great fire to the horror of all. But Agni, the golden god of Fire himself, rises from the flames attesting to Sītā’s purity and presents her to her husband. The gods, headed by Brahmā on his ha?sa bird, Indra on his...
EditorialSmith's Geranium, Preference; The sweet purple and white flowered Violets, Purity of sentiment, candour, modesty & innocence. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of Flora, with botani...
EditorialLilies of the Valley, Convallaria majalis, Purity and return of happiness; The purple Emperor Butterfly, Apatura iris, Immortality of the soul. Handcoloured lithograph by Dean and Munday after an illustration by Eliza Eve Gleadall from The Beauties of ...
EditorialRamazan Celik, a Turkish immigrant who was roughed up in May by police during a traffic stop, drives in Tokyo, June 18, 2020. (Noriko Hayashi/The New York Times)
EditorialSample of Iron with Galvanized Copper, Solid iron rod covered with a layer of copper, turned on different places to demonstrate the purity and tightness of the copper layer., ship model, Prince Hendrik of the Netherlands (ship), Bernab?, Toulon, c. 186...
EditorialEmblem: virgin Portrait of Lucretia Virgo (title on object), On top of a pedestal a medallion decorated with flowers with the portrait of the Roman virgin Lucretia. The pedestal bears a representation of a budding tulip, surrounded by a swarm of bees. ...
EditorialThe source of the Seine is the Cote d'Or, and it empties into the Channel. On its way it traverses Paris where the inhabitants escape the summer's heat and try to find freshness and purity in this river, plate 3 from Les Baigneurs. Honor? Victorin Daum...
EditorialMirror with Images of Purity and Immortality: Mount Penglai, Boya Playing the Qin (Zither), Lotus Pond, and Dancing Phoenix. China. Date: 700 AD-800 AD. Dimensions: Diam. 17.4 (6.8 in.); d. 0.6 cm (0.2 in.). Bronze. Origin: China.
EditorialThe Annunciation, ca. 1435, Tempera on wood, gold ground, Overall, with engaged (modern) frame, 30 x 17 1/8 in. (76.2 x 43.5 cm); painted surface 28 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (73 x 41 cm), Paintings, Sassetta (Stefano di Giovanni) (Italian, Siena or Cortona ca....
EditorialTerracotta stamnos (jar), Classical, ca. 475?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; black-glaze, Overall: 15 11/16 x 17 1/4in. (39.9 x 43.8cm), Vases, Although vases with painted scenes generally receive the most attention, their black-glazed counterparts...