EditorialThe predicted plague; value of the prediction, planetary and atmospheric influences considered as cause of black death and other plagues; comets and plagues of two thousand years detailed. Queen Elizabeth in Richmond; Her Majesty's book of astrology an...
EditorialCretan: Nativity of Christ, Unidentified artist, Cretan, 15th century, Oil (and tempera?) with gold leaf on panel, This gold-ground panel was painted in Crete, a Greek island that was once part of the Byzantine Empire and a center of Orthodox Christian...
EditorialCretan: Nativity of Christ, Unidentified artist, Cretan, 15th century, Oil (and tempera?) with gold leaf on panel, This gold-ground panel was painted in Crete, a Greek island that was once part of the Byzantine Empire and a center of Orthodox Christian...
EditorialCretan: Nativity of Christ, Unidentified artist, Cretan, 15th century, Oil (and tempera?) with gold leaf on panel, This gold-ground panel was painted in Crete, a Greek island that was once part of the Byzantine Empire and a center of Orthodox Christian...
EditorialEntry into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday. Christ seated on a donkey enters Jerusalem followed by a joyous crowd; The elders of the city waiting at the gates of the city. Syriac dictionary. Mosul (Iraq), 1210 - 1220. This manuscript contains passages from the ...
EditorialVilla Pisani, the " Bacchus room" with frescoes by Jacopo Guarana, 1770, showing Bacchanalia, the joyous processions in honour of the God Bacchus. Originally built by the Venetian Pisani family, the villa passed to Napoleon I. See also 14-02-...
EditorialEntry into Jerusalem. Palm Sunday. Christ seated on a donkey enters Jerusalem followed by a joyous crowd; The elders of the city waiting at the gates of the city. Syriac dictionary. Mosul (Iraq), 1210 - 1220. This manuscript contains passages from the ...
EditorialThe Star of the Classic Myths'. Part two. 'And Icarus kept them company, and pointed out to them happy Orpeus and his Eurydice, and showed them where the water-nymphs were joyous in their revels, and where dwelt many others whose names were potent in t...
EditorialA Young Girl with Daisies, 1889, Oil on canvas, 25 5/8 x 21 1/4 in. (65.1 x 54 cm), Paintings, Auguste Renoir (French, Limoges 1841?1919 Cagnes-sur-Mer), I have taken up again, never to abandon it, my old style, soft and light of touch,' Renoir announc...
EditorialYoung Women Playing Kitsune-ken (Fox Game), Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1768?69, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 11 1/4 x 8 5/8 in. (28.6 x 21.9 cm), Prints, Suzuki Harunobu (Japanese, 1725?1770), The spaciousness of the inte...
EditorialThe Visitation, ca. 1310?20, Made in Constance, German, Walnut, paint, gilding, rock-crystal cabochons inset in gilt-silver mounts, Overall: 23 1/4 x 11 7/8 x 7 1/4 in. (59.1 x 30.2 x 18.4 cm), Sculpture-Wood, Attributed to Master Heinrich of Constance...
Editorial????? ??, Ri Haku from the series Mirrors of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo), Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1832, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 20 3/8 x 9 in. (51.8 x 22.9 cm), Prints, Katsushika Hokusai (Japa...
EditorialGoblet with Applied Decoration, 11th?early 12th century, Attributed to Iran, Colorless glass with greenish tinge; blown, applied decoration, H. 4 1/2 in. (11.4 cm), Glass, This dainty goblet with a flange, or projecting ridge, and a splayed foot would ...
EditorialColumbine, Aquilegia glandulosa (Joyous columbine, Aquilegia jucunda). Handcoloured copperplate engraving by George Barclay after an illustration by Miss Sarah Drake from Edwards' Botanical Register, edited by John Lindley, London, Ridgeway, 1847.
EditorialVilla Pisani, the " Bacchus room" with frescoes by Jacopo Guarana, 1770, showing Bacchanalia, the joyous processions in honour of the God Bacchus. Originally built by the Venetian Pisani family, the villa passed to Napoleon I. See also 14-02-...