EditorialPeruvian giant Basilio Huaylas, 7ft at age 24. A native American from Ica in the south, he was exhibited in the capital Lima in 1792. Contrasted with an ordinary man holding a musical instrument, the arpa indigena, or indigenous harp. From Richard Phil...
EditorialView on the banks of the River Peiho. Figures sitting on the banks of the Hai River, with man pushing a barge in the foreground and three men beating a fourth with bamboo canes, watched by a crowd outside city-walls in the background. Signed with initi...
EditorialAn expanse of snow in the mountains. Some mountain tops can be seen contrasted against the bright blue sky which features clouds and the alpenglow of a sunset.
EditorialTwo Beauties, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1801?4, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 40 3/4 x 12 1/2 in. (103.5 x 31.8 cm), Paintings, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753??1806), Utamaro, the well-known ukiyo-e painter and printmaker, wa...