EditorialGuardian angel with child and devil, A naked child is being held by his guardian angel. For them a devil with two snakes. Italian text and a cardinal weapon, guardian angel, devil (s) appearing to mortals, trying to seduce them, temptation, Giovanni Ba...
EditorialTartuffe or the hypocrite deceiver, Interieur with a lady, Elmire and a gentleman, Tartuffe. In the background is a second man, Orgon, under a table. Scene from the play Tartuffe van Moli?re from 1664: the lady, Elmire, dressed in a frock with deep cle...
EditorialJoseph and the wife of Potiphar, Joseph and the wife of Potiphar. Joseph breaks free from the embrace of Potiphar's wife, who sits naked on the edge of her bed. Bottom left a blindfolded Cupid. To an original by Carlo Cignani. Part of the miniatures co...
EditorialTartuffe or the hypocritical impostor, Interieur with a lady, Elmire and a gentleman, Tartuffe. In the background is a second man, Orgon, under a table. Scene from the play Tartuffe van Moli?re from 1664: the lady, Elmire, dressed in a frock with deep ...
EditorialFolding fan with batist blade decorated with narrow ribbons, on a carved, gilt and lacquered wooden frame, Folding fan with batist leaf decorated with narrow concentric rip ribbons. Ajour carved, gilt and lacquered wooden frame with copper impeller rin...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Leda and the Swan (L?da au cygne), Paul C?zanne, c. 1880 (possibly later), Oil on canvas, This picture is unusual in C?zanne's oeuvre for its specific literary narrative. It represents the mythological story from Ovid's Metamorphoses in w...
EditorialPaul C?zanne: Leda and the Swan (L?da au cygne), Paul C?zanne, c. 1880 (possibly later), Oil on canvas, This picture is unusual in C?zanne's oeuvre for its specific literary narrative. It represents the mythological story from Ovid's Metamorphoses in w...
EditorialThe Countess Castiglione (Virginia Oldoini) 1837-1899, famous beauty and inofficial envoy of Italian King Victor-Emanuel, with mission to seduce Napoleon III and win him for the Italian cause. Canvas.
Editorial" Scivias" (Know the ways of the Lord) by the German nun and mystic Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179). The book, Codex Rupertsberg, disappeared during WW II. Transparen-cies are from a facsimile. Top: the devil breathes poison Bottom: disguise...
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Fourth night: The two cooks, who attempt to seduce the warrior?s loyal wife are trapped by her in a cellar, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, gold and ink on paper; overall...
EditorialA conference between a woman and an effeminate man, as to how the woman's lover can seduce another woman. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.149v. Language: Persian.
EditorialThe fire ordeal of Siyavush. Siyavush proves his innocence by passing unharmed through a fire. Siyavush was one of the legendary Persian heroes of the Shahnama. According to Firdawsi's poem, the prince was forced to pass through a mountain of fire to p...
EditorialPainting from Resina: hermaphrodite and faun. A horned old silenus lays down his pedum (crook) and tries to seduce a young hermaphrodite. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Pari...
EditorialVisvamitra's penance. Ramayana, Bala Kanda. Udaipur, 1712. The god Indra, fearing the power that Visvamitra would gain from his asceticisms, sends Kama the god of Love and the nymph Rambha to seduce him and thereby render his penance useless. Visvamitr...
EditorialA conference between a woman and an effeminate man, as to how the woman's lover can seduce another woman. Sinbadnama, the Story of Sinbad, in an anonymous Persian version, with 72 miniatures. c.1575. Source: I.O. ISLAMIC 3214, f.149v. Language: Persian.
EditorialThe fire ordeal of Siyavush. Siyavush proves his innocence by passing unharmed through a fire. Siyavush was one of the legendary Persian heroes of the Shahnama. According to Firdawsi's poem, the prince was forced to pass through a mountain of fire to p...
EditorialPainting from Resina: hermaphrodite and faun. A horned old silenus lays down his pedum (crook) and tries to seduce a young hermaphrodite. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Pari...
EditorialRoman noble woman Messalina trying to seduce a gladiator in a tavern. Portraits of gladiators with arrows and laurel wreaths on the walls. Colour printed illustration by Auguste Leroux from Felicien Champsaur's novel L'Orgie Latine (Roman Orgy), Fasque...
EditorialPainting from Resina: hermaphrodite and faun. A horned old silenus lays down his pedum (crook) and tries to seduce a young hermaphrodite. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Pari...
EditorialThe fire ordeal of Siyavush. Siyavush proves his innocence by passing unharmed through a fire. Siyavush was one of the legendary Persian heroes of the Shahnama. According to Firdawsi's poem, the prince was forced to pass through a mountain of fire to p...
EditorialLot and his daughters. Fearing that they are the only survivors of Sodom, the daughters seduce their father Lot, to assure him of progeny. Oil on canvas, 108 x 146 cm Inv. 899.
EditorialThe Countess Castiglione (Virginia Oldoini) 1837-1899, famous beauty and inofficial envoy of Italian King Victor-Emanuel, with mission to seduce Napoleon III and win him for the Italian cause. Canvas.
Editorial" Scivias" (Know the ways of the Lord) by the German nun and mystic Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179). The book, Codex Rupertsberg, disappeared during WW II. Transparen-cies are from a facsimile. Top: the devil breathes poison Bottom: disguise...
EditorialTympanon showing Shiva, in disguise (left), trying to seduce his wife Devi and (right), praising her for resisting temptation. Preah Pithu, Bayon style; Sandstone, H: 87 cm MG 18912.