EditorialA Central Park staff member peers through binoculars at Flaco, a Eurasian eagle-owl that escaped from the Central Park Zoo, in New York on Feb. 9, 2023. (Jeenah Moon/The New York Times)
EditorialNinon de Lenclos (1620-1705), famous courtesan at the court of Louis XIV. She was renowned for her beauty and for her erudition. Her house was a centre of literary life.
EditorialStele with Portrait of a?Boy, 3rd century A.D., Limestone, 93 ? 31.4 ? 13.3 cm (36 5/8 ? 12 3/8 ? 5 1/4?in.), This rectangular limestone stele provides an example of the art of the Roman province of Africa (modern Tunisia), once the heartland of the Ca...
EditorialThe Spirit of Justice, Study for Baron and his Advisor, with sketches of Erudition and Wisdom, 1844-1845 Ford Madox Brown, Armour, Sword, Drawing, Ink, Pre-Raphaelite, Knight.
EditorialMaster of the Mountain Landscapes (formerly attributed to Bruegel), Alpine Landscape (View of Waltensburg), ca. 1580-1630, pen and brown ink on paper, 12 5/8 in. x 10 13/16 in. (32 cm. x 27.4 cm.), This widely known drawing has only recently been ident...
Editorial‘A necessary doctrine and erudition for any Christian man, sette furth by the kynges majestie’. In 1543 an authoritative doctrinal formulary for Henry VIII's Church, known as the King’s Book, was published. Henry was indeed closely involved in it...
EditorialDaniel Webster, ca. 1850, Daguerreotype, 21.5 x 16.6 cm (8 7/16 x 6 9/16 in.), Photographs, Albert Sands Southworth (American, West Fairlee, Vermont 1811?1894 Charlestown, Massachusetts), Josiah Johnson Hawes (American, Wayland, Massachusetts 1808?1901...
EditorialSaint Catherine of Alexandria, early 15th century, French, Gold, ronde-basse enamel, jewels, Overall (without wooden base): 3 7/8 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/8 in. (9.8 x 5.4 x 2.8 cm), Enamels-Ronde Bosse, Saint Catherine, depicted in the delicately jeweled statuet...
EditorialNinon de Lenclos (1620-1705), famous courtesan at the court of Louis XIV. She was renowned for her beauty and for her erudition. Her house was a centre of literary life.