EditorialPAINTING ~ RENAISSANCE ~ 15TH ~ The Garden of Delights, detail center panel, bottom left. Naked men and women offer and eat giant berries. A couple makes love in a glass bubble, "pleasure is as fragile as glass"; large birds watch the bathers. Inv. 2823.
EditorialAn All?e in the Woods, 1859, Watercolor, sheet: 8 3/8 x 6 11/16 in. (21.3 x 17 cm), Drawings, Sir Edward John Poynter (British (born France), Paris 1836?1919 London), In this woodland scene, Poynter?s sonorous shades of brown, gray, and purple evoke a ...
EditorialGreek: Attic White Ground Lekythos, Unidentified artist, Greek, c. 450 B.C., Ceramic, In ancient Greece, this type of vessel, known as a lekythos, had a ceremonial function. These fragile clay objects were filled with oil and placed over gravesites as ...
EditorialWoman Seated in Chair Wiping her Left Side, modeled probably ca. 1896?1900, cast 1920, French, Bronze, 14-1/4 x 14-1/4 x 9-3/4 in. (36.2 x 36.2 x 24.8 cm.), Sculpture-Bronze, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), Upon Degas's death in 1917, more...