EditorialPortrait of Nicolaus Biesius. Unknown Artist (Flemish); written by Johannes Sambucus (Flemish, 1531-1584). Date: 1574. Dimensions: 199 ? 188 mm (image/plate); 312 ? 216 mm (sheet). Etching, with engraving, on cream laid paper. Origin: Flanders.
EditorialReliquary Bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch. Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden and workshop; Netherlandish, active in Germany, 1462-73. Date: 1465-1470. Dimensions: 50.8 ? 45.5 ? 29.6 cm (20 ? 18 ? 11 5/8 in.). Walnut with traces of 19th-century polychromy. ...
EditorialReliquary Bust of Saint Margaret of Antioch. Niclaus Gerhaert von Leyden and workshop; Netherlandish, active in Germany, 1462-73. Date: 1465-1470. Dimensions: 50.8 ? 45.5 ? 29.6 cm (20 ? 18 ? 11 5/8 in.). Walnut with traces of 19th-century polychromy. ...
EditorialBagni di Lucca. Prince Nicolaus Demidoff, a fabulously rich Russian guest, built a small pavilion and bridge. His arms are on the bridge. His son Anatol married Princess Mathilde, cousin of Napoleon III. The couple also took the waters at Bagni di Lucca.
EditorialStanislaus Sabinus von Stracza. Dated: 1590. Dimensions: plate: 42.2 x 32.7 cm (16 5/8 x 12 7/8 in.) sheet: 44.5 x 35.2 cm (17 1/2 x 13 7/8 in.). Medium: engraving on laid paper.
EditorialPortrait of a Nobleman. Dated: 1529. Dimensions: overall: 59.7 x 44.1 cm (23 1/2 x 17 3/8 in.) framed: 84.4 x 71.1 cm (33 1/4 x 28 in.). Medium: oil on panel.
EditorialNicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) Renaissance-era mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at the center of the universe.
EditorialPoland. Sculpture of Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) in Warsaw. Polish astronomer of the Renaissance who formulated the heliocentric theory of the solar system, holding an astrolabe. Etching 1850.