EditorialIn the throne room at Ayodhyā (right), King Da?aratha is seated with his four sons, his minister Sumantra and his chief priest Vasi??ha. Yudhājit, Queen Kaikeyī’s brother and Bharata's maternal uncle, has come to take Bharata to visit his mat...
Editorial[Group portrait of two mothers and two children]. Date/Period: Ca. 1843. Photograph. Daguerreotype (Cased object). Height: 75 mm (2.95 in); Width: 62 mm (2.44 in).
EditorialWashington's Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N. J., April 1789, on His Way to be Inaugurated First President of the United States.
EditorialWashington's Reception by the Ladies on Passing the Bridge at Trenton, N. J., April 1789, on His Way to be Inaugurated First President of the United States.
EditorialBurning of the Henry Clay Near Yonkers-While on Her Trip From Albany to New York on Wednesday Afternoon July 28th, 1852. -The rapid spread of the flames forced the passengers into the water. Mothers and children, husbands and wives, brothers and sister...
EditorialBroth bowl and cover (scodella and tagliere) from an accouchement set; Aeneas leaving Troy with his father and son (inside bowl); Pyramis and Thisbe (on cover).
EditorialStudy of a Standing Woman, 1792?96 (?), Black chalk, heightened with white chalk, on grey-blue prepared (?) paper, Sheet: 15 5/16 ? 9 3/4 in. (38.9 ? 24.7 cm), Drawings, Angelica Kauffmann (Swiss, Chur 1741?1807 Rome), This sheet is a preliminary study...
EditorialRooster, 18th century (?), Nigeria, Court of Benin, Edo peoples, Brass, H. 19 7/8 x W. 7 3/8 x D. 15 in. (50.5 x 18.8 x 38.1 cm), Metal-Sculpture, Brass roosters are placed on ancestral altars commemorating the queen mothers of Benin. They stand for fo...
EditorialThe Dance Class, 1874, Oil on canvas, 32 7/8 x 30 3/8 in. (83.5 x 77.2 cm), Paintings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), This work and its variant in the Mus?e d'Orsay, Paris, represent the most ambitious paintings Degas devoted to the theme...
EditorialAmulet of a Bes-image, New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, ca. 1390?1352 B.C., From Egypt, Upper Egypt, Thebes, Malqata, South Village, 1911?12, Faience, H. 3 ? W. 1.7 ? D. 0.7 cm (1 3/16 ? 11/16 ? 1/4 in.), This amulet represents a deity that is referred as the ...
EditorialTwo mothers in a parlor with their sons, 19th century. She says, My little Charles isn't in the best of health. She thinks, Nor so common and clumsy. Handcoloured lithograph by the Gihaut brothers after an illustration by Swiss artist Jean Gabriel Sche...
EditorialNova Huta, in 1956 an unfinished industrial town with vacant lots. Mothers and children take the air on a shabby lawn. A ferris-wheel and new, cheap housing in the background. A stray cow. Nova Huta, Poland,1956.
EditorialLe cattive madri-The Bad Mothers. According to an Indian legend, mothers who killed their newborn children must hang, frozen, in trees in a snowy landscape and nurse their dead children. Oil on canvas, 105 x 200 cm Inv. MG 269.
EditorialNok sculpture from Nigeria, probably a terracotta base for a large statue. Scenes of daily life, harvest, mothers with children. The larger figures carry a serpent on their raised arms. Terracotta, H: 50 cm. Musee du quai Branly, Inv.70.1998.11.2.