Editorial'A Muslim Pilgrim Learns a Lesson in Piety from a Brahman', Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597?98, Attributed to India, Image: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm), Codices, Painting by Basawan (Ind...
EditorialJoseph Blackburn, Portrait of Mrs. Thomas Flucker (n?e Hannah Waldo), ca. 1755, oil on canvas, 50 1/8 in. x 40 in. (127.32 cm x 101.6 cm), Joseph Blackburn was perhaps the most au courant of the small number of trained English painters working in the A...
EditorialPair of candelabra Candelabra made of partially gilt silver, Candelabra made of partially gilt silver. On the candelabrum an angel is combined with feet and arms in a lush rococo style and with decorative motifs in an Arabic-like idiom, angels, ornamen...
EditorialPair of candelabra Candelabra made of partially gilt silver, Candelabra made of partially gilt silver. On the candelabrum an angel is combined with feet and arms in a lush rococo style and with decorative motifs in an Arabic-like idiom, ornament derive...
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora, Proto-Attic, early 7th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta, H. 11 11/16 in. (29.7 cm), Vases, The style of this vase represents the transition from Geometric, with its preponderance of ornament and its spare artistic idiom, ...
EditorialThe Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books containing a Short Treatise on the Five Orders (L'Architecture de A. Palladio en quatre livres... / Il quattro libri dell'architettura).
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora, Proto-Attic, early 7th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta, H. 11 11/16 in. (29.7 cm), Vases, The style of this vase represents the transition from Geometric, with its preponderance of ornament and its spare artistic idiom, ...
EditorialThe Architecture of A. Palladio in Four Books containing a Short Treatise on the Five Orders (L'Architecture de A. Palladio en quatre livres... / Il quattro libri dell'architettura).
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora, Proto-Attic, early 7th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta, H. 11 11/16 in. (29.7 cm), Vases, The style of this vase represents the transition from Geometric, with its preponderance of ornament and its spare artistic idiom, ...
EditorialTerracotta chariot krater, Late Helladic IIIA:1, ca. 1375?1350 B.C., Helladic, Mycenaean, Terracotta, H. 14 7/16 in. (36.7 cm), Vases, During the fourteenth century B.C. broad and deep-bodied kraters, often decorated with complex pictorial scenes, were...
Editorial? ?? ????? ??, Angling in the Autumn River, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), ca. 1370, China, Fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on silk, Image: 10 3/16 ? 10 13/16 in. (25.9 ? 27.5 cm), Paintings, Sheng Zhu (Chinese, active late 14th century), Both t...
Editorial'A Muslim Pilgrim Learns a Lesson in Piety from a Brahman', Folio from a Khamsa (Quintet) of Amir Khusrau Dihlavi, 1597?98, Attributed to India, Image: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 9 7/8 in. (25.1 cm), Codices, Painting by Basawan (Ind...
Editorial? ?? ???? ??, Scholar on a Rock, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), ca. 1880, China, Folding fan mounted as an album leaf; ink and color on paper, Image: 7 1/2 x 21 3/16 in. (19.1 x 53.8 cm), Paintings, Ren Yi (Ren Bonian) (Chinese, 1840?1896), Rendered in high...
Editorial?, ???, ??????, ?, Landscape after Wu Zhen, Qing dynasty (1644?1911), dated 1695, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 42 3/4 x 20 1/4 in. (108.6 x 51.4 cm), Paintings, Wang Yuanqi (Chinese, 1642?1715), According to his inscription, Wang Yuanqi ...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...