EditorialMeskwaki warriors Muk-a-tah-mish-o-kah-kaik, Black Hawk 283, his son Nah-se-us-kuk, Whirling Thunder 284, Wah-pe-kee-suck, White Cloud or the Prophet 285, and Wee-sheet, Sturgeon's Head 286. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs...
EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order. The whirling dervishes were founded by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840.
EditorialWoman in fancy dress costume as a whirling dervish. Handcolored pochoir (stencil) lithograph from the French luxury fashion magazine Art, Gout, Beaute, 1925.
EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order. The whirling dervishes were founded by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840.
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: block printed on plain weave, Red ground with a staggered repeat of whirling rosettes in yellow, black, red, and reserved white. Spaces between rosettes have interlaced circles and links., England or France, 18001850,...
EditorialFragment, Medium: cotton Technique: resist-printed on plain weave, Coarse undyed cotton plain cloth forms design against red ground. At right, broad incomplete border of rosettes with octagons, dots, and geometric forms. At left, plain red ground at to...
EditorialDesign for Two Embroidered or Woven Borders of the 'Fabrique de St. Ruf', Fabrique de Saint Ruf, Lyon, France, Brush and white gouache on glazed tracing paper, At left: a vertical row composed of a unit shown five times: a leaf with three seeds inside ...
EditorialDervish, 17th?century, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, without mounting: 3 15/16 ? 1 3/4 in. (10 ? 4.5 cm), Dervishes are adherents to a mystical tradition within Islam known as Sufism, though they are distinguished from other Sufi practitio...
EditorialThe monkeys advance against Rāva?a's sons and brothers, brandishing trees, and a terrific mêlée ensues while Rāma and his generals look on. One monkey wields a dead demon and another an elephant as weapons. A?gada and Sugrīva stand by Vibhī??...
EditorialMarine: The Waterspout, 1870, Oil on canvas, 27 1/8 x 39 1/4 in. (68.9 x 99.7 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819?1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), Courbet first witnessed a waterspout at Trouville, a village on the Channel Coast, in 1865 or 186...
Editorial'Dancing Dervishes', Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530?50, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 15 3/16 in. (38.6 cm), Codices, The 'Emperor?s Album,' to which this folio belongs, was made f...
EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order. The whirling dervishes were founded by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840.
EditorialOttoman Empire. Turkey. Whirling Derviches. Mevlevi Order. The whirling dervishes were founded by Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273). Engraving by Lemaitre, Vernier and Monnin. Historia de Turquia by Joseph Marie Jouannin (1783-1844) and Jules Van Gaver, 1840.
EditorialDance of the whirling Dervishes of Mawlawi Tawagozi. Sufi Dervishes in tall hats dance in a circle to accompaniment by musicians on drums, psaltery and sistrum. Ballo dei Dervisch Mewlewi. Handcoloured copperplate engraving by Nasi after Giulio Ferrari...
EditorialWhirling art as the movement is driven by a kugelschwanckradt, Fountain, Fig. 103, after p. 18, p. 127, 1629, Iacobum de Strada ? Rosberg: Kunstliche Abriss, allerhand Wasser-, Wind-, Ross- und Hand M?hlen, beneben sch?nen und n?tzlichen Pompen, auch a...
Editorial*EXCLUSIVE* SPOILER ALERT: James Marsden films a scene for 'Dead to Me' in Hermosa Beach with Christina Applegate after his character is shot in Season 1 finale
EditorialThe monkeys advance against Rāva?a's sons and brothers, brandishing trees, and a terrific mêlée ensues while Rāma and his generals look on. One monkey wields a dead demon and another an elephant as weapons. A?gada and Sugrīva stand by Vibhī??...
EditorialThe monkeys advance against Rāva?a's sons and brothers, brandishing trees, and a terrific mêlée ensues while Rāma and his generals look on. One monkey wields a dead demon and another an elephant as weapons. A?gada and Sugrīva stand by Vibhī??...
EditorialDancing Celestial Deity (Devata), early 12th century, India (Uttar Pradesh), Sandstone, H. 33 1/2 in. (85.1 cm), Sculpture, Imagine posing as a model for this dancing female figure. You'll soon realize that this striking pose is anatomically impossible...
EditorialKnife and halberd blade Ko decorated with whirling design on the Tang. Bronze. Shang Dynasty. Excavated 1954 at Cheng-Chou, Honan, China. 25.6 and 20.3 cm.
EditorialMarine: The Waterspout, 1870, Oil on canvas, 27 1/8 x 39 1/4 in. (68.9 x 99.7 cm), Paintings, Gustave Courbet (French, Ornans 1819?1877 La Tour-de-Peilz), Courbet first witnessed a waterspout at Trouville, a village on the Channel Coast, in 1865 or 186...
Editorial'Dancing Dervishes', Folio from the Shah Jahan Album, recto: ca. 1610; verso: ca. 1530?50, Attributed to India, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, H. 15 3/16 in. (38.6 cm), Codices, The 'Emperor?s Album,' to which this folio belongs, was made f...
EditorialDancing Celestial Deity (Devata), early 12th century, India (Uttar Pradesh), Sandstone, H. 33 1/2 in. (85.1 cm), Sculpture, Imagine posing as a model for this dancing female figure. You'll soon realize that this striking pose is anatomically impossible...
EditorialBowl with Rosette, 10th century, Attributed to present-day Uzbekistan, Samarqand, Earthenware; white slip with polychrome slip decoration under transparent glaze, H. 2 3/8 in. (6 cm), Ceramics, The whirling rosette decorating the base of this vessel se...
EditorialWoman in fancy dress costume as a whirling dervish. Handcolored pochoir (stencil) lithograph from the French luxury fashion magazine Art, Gout, Beaute, 1925.
EditorialMeskwaki warriors Muk-a-tah-mish-o-kah-kaik, Black Hawk 283, his son Nah-se-us-kuk, Whirling Thunder 284, Wah-pe-kee-suck, White Cloud or the Prophet 285, and Wee-sheet, Sturgeon's Head 286. Handcoloured lithograph from George Catlin's Manners, Customs...
EditorialWhirling table to demonstrate centrifugal force, and other astronomical instruments. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown, Lon...
EditorialKnife and halberd blade Ko decorated with whirling design on the Tang. Bronze. Shang Dynasty. Excavated 1954 at Cheng-Chou, Honan, China. 25.6 and 20.3 cm.