EditorialSilver bull, Early Bronze Age, from Alaca Hujuk, central Turkey. The silver bull with gold inlay on a copper stand may have come from a pole supporting a canopy over a rich burial. The cemetery served an official group of persons; the dead were richly ...
Editorial" Sarcophagus of the Hunt". Left: hunting a wild boar. Right: three stags are chased into a net. Top: a captured stag. Right: captured animals in a net. See also 08-05-12 / 63-66. White marble (2nd quarter 4th).
EditorialCeiling in Hadrian's Villa, with Nymphs, Centaurs, Stags, and Elephants, Pen and colored inks, brush and watercolor, guache, over traces of graphite on paper, Design of a ceiling. In the center of the plan is a circle containing a square. The outlines ...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a mounted king, hawking, coming upon two stags feeding. Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). France, S. (Toulouse?); last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Source...
EditorialRoyal couple in prayer. Miniature of a crowned woman and a bearded man (Eleanor of Woodstock and Reinald II of Guelders) kneeling in prayer, with the dove of the Holy Spirit above, at the beginning of the Matins of the Holy Ghost. Below is a bas-de-pag...