EditorialThe centaur Chiron, wearing an animal skin and a wreath of flowers (Centaurus?), teaching the boy Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre. Below are two vignettes of ministers of Bacchus, one with a torch and one with a ribbon and tyrse. Discovered in Resi...
EditorialThe centaur Chiron, wearing an animal skin and a wreath of flowers (Centaurus?), teaching the boy Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre. Below are two vignettes of ministers of Bacchus, one with a torch and one with a ribbon and tyrse. Discovered in Resi...
EditorialThe centaur Chiron, wearing an animal skin and a wreath of flowers (Centaurus?), teaching the boy Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre. Below are two vignettes of ministers of Bacchus, one with a torch and one with a ribbon and tyrse. Discovered in Resi...
EditorialThe centaur Chiron, wearing an animal skin and a wreath of flowers (Centaurus?), teaching the boy Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre. Below are two vignettes of ministers of Bacchus, one with a torch and one with a ribbon and tyrse. Discovered in Resi...
EditorialAn emblem containing the figure of a man and skeleton, representing death. The words around the emblem are in Latin : "Vivitur ingenio cetera mortis erunt, meaning, one lives in one's genius, other things shall be (or pass away) in death. . Nucleus Emb...
EditorialThe centaur Chiron, wearing an animal skin and a wreath of flowers (Centaurus?), teaching the boy Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre. Below are two vignettes of ministers of Bacchus, one with a torch and one with a ribbon and tyrse. Discovered in Resi...
EditorialThe centaur Chiron, wearing an animal skin and a wreath of flowers (Centaurus?), teaching the boy Achilles to play the Cetera or lyre. Below are two vignettes of ministers of Bacchus, one with a torch and one with a ribbon and tyrse. Discovered in Resi...
EditorialRare cetera or cither with carved head made by famous violin-maker Antonius Stradivarius in 1700. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins' "Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique," Adam and Charles Black, Edinbur...
EditorialCetera or cither. Chromolithograph from an illustration by William Gibb from A.J. Hipkins' "Musical Instruments, Historic, Rare and Unique," Adam and Charles Black, Edinburgh, 1888. Alfred James Hipkins (1826-1903) was an English musicologist who speci...