EditorialThe Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy. Date/Period: 1850. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,413 mm (55.62 in); Width: 1,746 mm (68.74 in).
EditorialWoman Lighting a Rocket, also called Peace Gets Me Going, from Communia Gaudia (The Wide-Spread Rejoicing at the Siege of Namur). Cornelis Dusart (Dutch, 1660-1704); published by Jacob Gole (Dutch, 1660-1737). Date: 1695. Dimensions: 247 x 180 mm (plat...
EditorialThe Feast of the Drawing of Water, Medium: silk, metallic yarn Technique: embroidery, Picture shows a scene in Jewish ritual celebration: 'The Feast of the Drawing of Water.' In the back are three arches: in the center a hanging candelabra, on the left...
EditorialJames Sadler making an ascent in a balloon for the opening of the Grand Jubilee celebrations on 1 August, 1814. An Historical Memento, representing the different. Edward Orme: London, 1814. The tower & preparation of the fire works, with the balloon'. ...
EditorialEgypt, Alexandria. Popular rejoicing during the Greater Bayram festival (Feast of the Sacrifice). The celebrations include sharing meat with family and poor people, sacrifice of an animal, wearing new clothes, gifts for children, having fun on merry-go...
EditorialA cyclist on John F. Kennedy Drive in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park near the De Young Museum, July 14, 2021. (Cayce Clifford/The New York Times)
EditorialThe Feast of the Drawing of Water, Medium: silk, metallic yarn Technique: embroidery, Picture shows a scene in Jewish ritual celebration: 'The Feast of the Drawing of Water.' In the back are three arches: in the center a hanging candelabra, on the left...
EditorialSketch of Figural Group for Ascension, Francis Augustus Lathrop, American, 1849 - 1909, Graphite on laid paper, Figures kneeling and praying or rejoicing, possibly a study for a mural of the Ascension. Figure at right with arms raised. Central figure f...
EditorialNoah's Children Rejoicing, George Romney, 17341802, British, undated, Graphite; verso: brown wash on medium, slightly textured, creamn wove paper, Sheet: 5 x 5 5/8 inches (12.7 x 14.3 cm), children, figure study, religious and mythological subject.
EditorialCharles-Fran?ois Daubigny, Rejoicing of the Fish at the Departure of the Cabin boy, Charles-Fran?ois Daubigny (French, Paris 18171878 Paris), 1862, Pen and ink on tracing paper, redrawn in graphite on verso, Sheet: 4 7/16 ? 7 7/8 in. (11.3 ? 20 cm), Dr...
EditorialGian Federigo Bonzagni, Pius V (1504-1572), Pope 1566-1572, The Battle of Lepanto, 1571, gilt, copper, 1 7/16 in. (3.7 cm.), This medal was specially made to celebrate the Holy Alliance's decisive naval victory over the Ottoman Turks at Lepanto on Octo...
EditorialOn the right, Da?aratha again tells Rāma he will make him king, with Vasi??ha, Lak?ma?a, another Brahmin and ministers in attendance. Rāma and Lak?ma?a then leave the king to call on Kausalyā on the left, who, dressed in white, is worsh...
EditorialView of the fair. An Historical Memento, representing the different. Edward Orme: London, 1814. The view of the fair in Hyde Park, Augt. 1st 1814'. A moonlight scene. Image taken from An Historical Memento, representing the different scenes of public ...
EditorialSītā casts herself into the great fire to the horror of all. But Agni, the golden god of Fire himself, rises from the flames attesting to Sītā’s purity and presents her to her husband. The gods, headed by Brahmā on his ha?sa bird, Indra on his...
EditorialThe Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy. Date/Period: 1850. Painting. Oil on canvas. Height: 1,413 mm (55.62 in); Width: 1,746 mm (68.74 in).
EditorialThe Atlantic Telegraph Cable Fleet Assembled at Berehaven (Southwest Coast of Ireland): Ships, the Great Eastern, H. M. S. Terrible, the Alby, the Medway and the William Cory.
EditorialA photo provided by the National Museum of American History shows the Indigenous suffragist Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, also known as Zitkala-?a, a citizen of the Yankton Sioux Tribe. (National Museum of American History via The New York Times)