EditorialPREMIUM EXCLUSIVE: Theresa Nist steps out wearing her wedding ring despite 'Golden Bachelor' Gerry Turner filing for divorce on the day of their bombshell breakup announcement - just three months after their fairytale wedding.
EditorialPedro Pablo Rubens / 'Vulcan forging Jupiter's Lightening Bolts', 1636-1637, Flemish School, Oil on canvas, 182,5 cm x 99,5 cm, P01676. PETER PAUL RUBENS. vulcano.
EditorialThe Palace of the Large Masks, Kabah, Puuc Archaeological Zone, Yucatan. The palace facade is densely covered with masks of the rain-god Chac, whose elongated, trunk-like nose symbolizes lightening. End of Late Classic, 800-900 CE.
EditorialBaal with lightening, a stele from the temple of Baal in Ugarit. The god, mounted on a horned altar, marches forward brandishing a mace. Leaves burst forth from his spear, symbolizing the beneficial effects of Baal's storm. Limestone, H: 142 cm AO 15775.
EditorialModels which served in Benjamin Franklin's lightening rod experiments: bottle (second from right) is a stencil plate; the other three objects were part of the " storm-house" demonstration to show the efficiency of the lightening rod.
EditorialFragment, Medium: wool Technique: felted and stenciled, Rectangle of cream colored felt, printed in blue and red in two square designs of clouds, zig-zags of lightening (?) and wild-haired man. Each edsign outlined by a band of blue dots., China, 18th ...
EditorialFrame, Brass, Vertical, rectangle opening with raised ornament including balls of fire and shafts of lightening. At top, Hercules with lion skin. Below, an acanthus pendant terminating in a cone. Two prongs at back., France, early 19th century, metalwo...
EditorialFragment, Medium: wool Technique: felted and stenciled, Rectangle of cream colored felt, printed in blue and red in two square designs of clouds, zig-zags of lightening (?) and wild-haired man. Each edsign outlined by a band of blue dots., China, 18th ...
EditorialThe Palace of the Large Masks, Kabah, Puuc Archaeological Zone, Yucatan. The palace facade is densely covered with masks of the rain-god Chac, whose elongated, trunk-like nose symbolizes lightening. End of Late Classic, 800-900 CE.
EditorialPortable altar for Jupiter Heliopolitanus. Right hand missing which held lightening; he is wrapped in a tight shroud like a mummy. He is simultaneously Baal the thunderer and Osiris, the reborn god of fertility. 2nd CE Bronze, H: 38,4 cm AO 19.534.
EditorialJunon foudroyant Troie-Juno throws her lightening bolt against Troy. Painted for the bathing apartment of Anna of Austria, mother of Louis XIV. Canvas, 73 x 116 cm.