Editorial'The Great Renunciation', painting on hemp cloth, Korean, Choson dynasty, early 18th century. Although Korea was a strict Confucian state during the Choson dynasty (1392-1910), by the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Buddhism became less oppressed a...
Editorial????????????, Noh Costume (Karaori) with Cherry Blossoms and Fretwork, Edo period (1615?1868), first half of the 18th century, Japan, Brocaded silk twill, Overall: 65 1/2 x 64 1/2 in. (166.4 x 163.8 cm), Costumes, An intense chromatic effect is achieve...
EditorialAusstellungshaus am Kurf?rstendamm GmbH, Thomas Theodor Heine, exhibition of the Secession Der Deutsche K?nstlerbund, Berlin 1905, paper, lithograph, total: height: 139,7 cm; width: 95 cm, monogrammed: u. r. in print: TTH, exhibition posters, Woman, Ro...
EditorialPair of Doves, Bamboo, and?Camellia, 14th?century, Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, without mounting: 30 1/4 ? 16 5/8 in. (76.8 ? 42.2?cm), While birds of all species are generally depicted in pairs in Chinese painting, the snuggling pair of dove...
Editorialfireback, Anonymous, 1664 or 1667, cast, General: 92 x 64 x 2cm 920 x 640 x 20mm, Iron fireback with the allegorical depiction of the Transience, depicted as King David making an atoning sacrifice I Kron. 21 vs. 9-13. The king kneels in front of an alt...
Editorialfireback, Anonymous, 1664 or 1667, cast, General: 92 x 64 x 2cm 920 x 640 x 20mm, Iron fireback with the allegorical depiction of the Transience, depicted as King David making an atoning sacrifice I Kron. 21 vs. 9-13. The king kneels in front of an alt...
Editorialfireback, Anonymous, 1664 or 1667, cast, General: 92 x 64 x 2cm 920 x 640 x 20mm, Iron fireback with the allegorical depiction of the Transience, depicted as King David making an atoning sacrifice I Kron. 21 vs. 9-13. The king kneels in front of an alt...
EditorialAllegory of Transience, A putto sits on a skull and blows bubbles. On the left a vase with flowers and on the right a smoking barrel. Below the show two four-line verses in Latin, (children or putti) blowing bubbles, 'Homo Bulla', scene symbolizing 'Va...
EditorialHéctor Zamora’s sculpture “Lattice Detour,” a curved wall of terra cotta bricks, on the roof of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Aug. 20, 2020. (Hiroko Masuike/The New York Times)
EditorialDish, cup and saucer Bell-shaped covered cup and saucer with a symbolic image of three putti and different objects, Bell-shaped lid cup and saucer of porcelain, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green yellow, brown, black and gold. On the plate ...
EditorialAllegory of Transience, A putto sits on a skull and blows bubbles. On the left a vase with flowers and on the right a smoking barrel. Below the show two four-line verses in Latin, (children or putti) blowing bubbles, 'Homo Bulla', scene symbolizing 'Va...
EditorialDish, cup and saucer Saucer-dish with a symbolic image of three putti and different objects, Porcelain dish painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, brown, black and gold. On the shelf of the dish a symbolic representation with three put...
EditorialAllegory of Transience, A putto sits on the floor and leans against a skull, holding a pipe in his left hand with which he calls has blown. In his right hand he holds a shell, Behind him incense barrel from which smoke rises., (Children or putti) blowi...
EditorialBell-shaped covered cup with a symbolic image of three putti and different objects, Bell-shaped porcelain cup, painted on the glaze in blue, red, pink, green, yellow, brown, black and gold. On the wall a symbolic representation with three putti, one of...