EditorialRight wing of a polyptych with the Crucifixion Right wing of a polyptych with the Crucifixion, Christ hangs on the cross under three gothic tripods with on the left Mary with three holy women and on the right John beside three soldiers. Maria is suppor...
EditorialFragment of silk tissue with pattern of red pineapple and purple fruit on yellow ground, Fragment of silk tissue with an incomplete, asymmetrical pattern: a white branch grows with a white branch with white leaves, which almost disappear behind two git...
EditorialBefore the Berlin-wall was built, some thoroughfares were closed off by fences. West-Berliners put up a huge signboard, asking that fences and controls disappear from Stalin-Allee, at the border of East and West. Berlin-West,1958.
EditorialEver since Mr. Babinet had announced that the sun might disappear from one moment to the next, the Parisians are taking all necessary precautions, even at mid-day, plate 385 from Actualit?s. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1857. Dimen...
EditorialPsalm 50; the Ascension. Luttrell Psalter. England [East Anglia]; circa 1325-1335. [Whole folio] Pssalm 50. Border decoration including grotesque with bearded male head who looks up as if Christ has already disappeared. In the lower margin, the Virgin ...
EditorialRemains of the much-vaunted German "Westwall" which could not stop the Allies' invasion and liberation of France. Today the concrete fortifications disappear in the dunes of fashionable beaches. Dunes near Cap Ferret.
EditorialReclining Nude, 1917, Oil on canvas, 23 7/8 x 36 1/2 in. (60.6 x 92.7 cm), Paintings, Amedeo Modigliani (Italian, Livorno 1884?1920 Paris), Modigliani?s celebrated series of reclining nudes, begun in 1916, are influenced by Italian Renaissance represen...
EditorialTHE FISHWIFE OF MARKEN. R. JORDANS. Marken is a peninsula in the IJsselmeer, in the Netherlands and a former island in the Zuiderzee. For some time during the later 19th and early 20th centuries, Marken and its inhabitants were the focus of considerabl...
EditorialBefore the Berlin-wall was built, some thoroughfares were closed off by fences. West-Berliners put up a huge signboard, asking that fences and controls disappear from Stalin-Allee, at the border of East and West. Berlin-West,1958.
EditorialThe German " Atlantic Wall" was a chain of fortifications that reached from the North Sea to the Channel and the Atlantic near Bordeaux. Today the ancient bunkers disappear in the dunes of the bathing resorts.
EditorialRemains of the much-vaunted German " Westwall" which could not stop the Allies' invasion and liberation of France. Today the concrete fortifications disappear in the dunes of fashionable beaches. Dunes near Cap Ferret.