EditorialTwenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko), section of a sheet from the series "A Harimaze Mirror of Joruri Plays (Harimaze joruri kagami)". Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Japanese, 1787-1861. Date: 1854. Dimensions: 10.8 x 10.5 cm (4 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.). Color...
EditorialThe Tree made up of 7 clusters of circles with the names of the 7 Virtues and the 7 Subsidiaries. At the top, two angels stand next to 'Peace' and 'Piety' beside the head of Christ. At the base of the tree, Humility, the root of the virtues, is represe...
EditorialStatue of Ashurnasirpal II (883-859 BCE), from Nimrud, northern Iraq. It was placed in the temple of Ishtar Sharrat-niphi to remind the goddess Ishtar of the king's piety. Made of magnesite on a pedestal of reddish stone. In his right hand Ashurnsirpal...
EditorialSpain. Galicia. Santiago de Compostela Cathedral. Chapel of Piety or Chaple of the Holy Cross or Chapel of Mondragon. Terracotta relief of Lamentation over Dead Christ, sculpted by Renaissance sculptor Miguel Perrin (1498 ?-1552) in 1526. Detail.
EditorialPiety: The Knights of the Round Table about to Depart in Quest of the Holy Grail. Date/Period: 1849. Drawing. Watercolour and bodycolour over pencil on buff paper, laid down. Height: 233 mm (9.17 in); Width: 440 mm (17.32 in).
EditorialTwenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Nijushiko), section of a sheet from the series "A Harimaze Mirror of Joruri Plays (Harimaze joruri kagami)". Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Japanese, 1787-1861. Date: 1854. Dimensions: 10.8 x 10.5 cm (4 1/4 x 4 1/8 in.). Color...
EditorialMin Ziqian (Binshiken), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)". Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Japanese, 1797-1861. Date: 1837-1847. Dimensions: 25.2 x 37.8 cm (9 15/16 x 14 7/8 in.). Woodblock print...
EditorialWang Pu (Oho), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)". Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Japanese, 1797-1861. Date: 1838-1848. Dimensions: 25.9 x 37.7 cm (10 3/16 x 14 13/16 in.). Color woodblock print;...
EditorialDashun (Taishun), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)". Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Japanese, 1797-1861. Date: 1838-1848. Dimensions: 24.5 x 36.9 cm (9 5/8 x 14 1/2 in.). Color woodblock print; ...
EditorialMeng Zong (Moso), from the series "Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety as a Mirror for Children (Nijushiko doji kagami)". Utagawa Kuniyoshi; Japanese, 1797-1861. Date: 1838-1848. Dimensions: 24.1 x 35.9 cm (9 1/2 x 14 1/8 in.). Color woodblock print; ...
EditorialYu Kinro (Chinese: Yu Qianlou), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)"". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: 1765-1777. Dimensions: 10 x 7 1/2 in. Color woodblock prin...
EditorialMoso (Chinese: Meng Zong), from the series "Fashionable Japanese Versions of the Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety (Furyu Yamato nijushiko)". Isoda Koryusai; Japanese, 1735-1790. Date: 1765-1777. Dimensions: 10 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. Color woodblock print;...
EditorialSkeleton of death aiming a dart at a young woman kneeling in prayer before bed. Death and Juvenile Piety. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Joshua Gleadah after an illustration by Benedictus Antonio Van Assen from The British Dance of Death, Hodgso...
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?, ???, ???, ?, Paragons of Loyalty and Filial Piety, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1593, China, Handscroll; ink on paper, Image: 11 1/8 in. x 14 ft. 8 3/4 in. (28.3 x 448.9 cm), Paintings, Wang Shanggong (Chinese, active 16th century), Illustrations...
EditorialSpain, Galicia, Santiago de Compostela. Cathedral of Santiago. Mondrag?n Chapel or Chapel of Piety. Built between 1521 and 1526 by Jacome Garcia. Terracotta sculptural relief depicting the Lamentation over Dead of Christ, by Miguel Perrin (1498-1552) i...
EditorialPiety, Abraham Bloemaert, 1564 1651, Brush and white gouache, and black chalk on gray laid paper, A seated female figure a cloud bank, facting right, her gaze directed to upper left; in her left hand she hold the Palm of Martyrdom, and behind her, a cu...
EditorialRecto: Pilgrim, or 'Pietas' (allegory of Piety), preliminary design for pl. 6 in the Schema, seu Speculum Principum (Skills of a Prince) series; Verso, above: Man with a Stick; Verso, below: Lion Hunt in Africa, from Pliny's Natural History, Book 8, ch...
EditorialSacrifices of Cain and Abel, preliminary design for 'Spiritus Pietatis' (The Spirit of Piety, plate 6 in 'The Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit' print series, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605, Pen and brown ink, brush and wash on la...
EditorialBorder, Medium: linen, silk Technique: embroidered, Embroidery in design of plants forms and fantastic animals standing on either side of an urn on which is a pelican in her piety., North Africa, 17th century, embroidery & stitching, Border.
EditorialParsonic Piety (Good Precepts do As I Say - but Bad Examples Not as I Do), Isaac Cruikshank, 17561810, British, 1794, Etching, hand-colored, Sheet: 8 7/8 x 14 7/8in. (22.5 x 37.8cm).
EditorialRaphael receiving the money of Tobias from Gabael: Tobit 9:5, Thomas Carwitham, active 1723, British, undated, Pen and brown ink and brown wash on moderately thick, slightly textured, cream laid paper mounted on thick, moderately textured, cream laid p...
EditorialVanity Fair - Bankers and Financiers. 'Piety and Banking'. The Hon. Arthur Fitzgerald Kinnaird. 15 January 1876, Carlo Pellegrini, 18391889, Italian, 1876, Chromolithograph.