EditorialMilanese soldier, 15th century. He wears a red casque helmet ornamented with gold, one-piece tunic and breeches, chainmail chlamys, steel-plate arm and leg armour. He carries a spear and buckler (shield). From a painting in the chapel in the Duomo of M...
EditorialCampana, bell-shaped vase, with erotic scenes. One scene shows a phallic Bacchanalia, with a seated silenus worshipped by a bald man, and attended by a Bacchus wearing a chlamys and casque helmet. The other shows a Bacchic game with a woman picking up ...
EditorialCampana, bell-shaped vase, with erotic scenes. One scene shows a phallic Bacchanalia, with a seated silenus worshipped by a bald man, and attended by a Bacchus wearing a chlamys and casque helmet. The other shows a Bacchic game with a woman picking up ...
EditorialYellow-Casque Black Hornbill, from the Birds of the Tropics series (N5) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes Brands, 1889, Commercial color lithograph, Sheet: 2 3/4 x 1 1/2 in. (7 x 3.8 cm), Trade cards from the 'Birds of the Tropics' series (N5), issued in 1...
EditorialCasque or helmet pitcher from Sinceny, France, 18th century, Oriental birds and flowers and man's head at the spout. Hand-finished chromolithograph from Ris Paquot's General History of Ancient French and Foreign Glazed Pottery, Chez l'Auteur, Paris, 1874.
EditorialParadoxical frog, Pseudis paradoxa 1, and black-spotted casque-headed tree frog, Trachycephalus nigromaculatus 2. Handcolored engraving by Fournier after an illustration by Oudart from Charles d'Orbigny's "Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle" (...
EditorialMilitary costume, 13th century. He wears a blue casque with yellow bend sinister, full chainmail suit of armour, violet tunic, buckler (shield) and sword. From a contemporary manuscript. According to Massard, this is Hugh III, Duke of Burgundy, 12th ce...
EditorialMilanese soldier, 15th century. He wears a red casque helmet ornamented with gold, one-piece tunic and breeches, chainmail chlamys, steel-plate arm and leg armour. He carries a spear and buckler (shield). From a painting in the chapel in the Duomo of M...
EditorialCampana, bell-shaped vase, with erotic scenes. One scene shows a phallic Bacchanalia, with a seated silenus worshipped by a bald man, and attended by a Bacchus wearing a chlamys and casque helmet. The other shows a Bacchic game with a woman picking up ...
EditorialCostume of Egle, merveilleuse in the fashion of 1798. She wears a Minerva casque open at the top, an Omphale robe decorated with flowers, a spencer jacket, a scarf, sandals with jeweled straps. Handcoloured etching by Auguste Etienne Guillaumot Jr. fro...