EditorialMemorabilia from Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Audrey Hepburn to Chris Hemsworth, Samuel L. Jackson and Star Wars to go under hammer at huge Hollywood auction
EditorialPortrait of Louis XIV (1638-1715), King of France and Navarre, A slightly smaller than life-size portrait of Louis XIV in patinated bronze, on a square red marble base. The face is turned slightly to the right (heraldic left). The monarch wears a conte...
EditorialLantern Slide - 'The Baron,' Dandenongs, Victoria, 1890, Black and white image of a very popular huge tree named The Baron standing in the Dandenongs, Victoria, photographed by A.J. Campbell. The gentleman in the image has not been identified. In the n...
EditorialSkirt of a frock or robe ? la fran?aise made of silk with vertical yellow and white stripes and a multi-colored flower pattern with oval pouffes and lined with a multi-colored chin?, Skirt of a frock or robe ? la fran?aise made of silk with vertical ye...
EditorialAn academy or colledge : wherein yong ladies and gentlewomen may at a very moderate expence be duly instructed in the true protestant religion,and in all vertuous qualities that may adorn the sex: also be carefully preserved, and secured, till the day ...
EditorialThe Magnanimity of Seleucus The magnanimity of Zaleucus, Zaleucus is leaning to the right with its naked upper body leaning back slightly and balancing its right fist. His left arm is held with both hands by the young man who has sunk to one knee. On t...
EditorialBrass candlestick, The object is composed of two parts: the base and the stem with the candleholder. These are cast and turned. The foot, which tapers slightly at the edge, can serve as a fat trap. It rises sharply towards the middle, where the trunk i...
EditorialThe imperial dictionary of the English language; a complete encyclopaedic lexicon, literary, scientific and technological. New ed., carefully rev. and greatly augm. Edited by Charles Annandale : Ogilvie, John, 1797-1867.
EditorialSaint Peter The Apostle Peter, Terracotta preliminary study for the marble Peter statue of Artus Quellinus in the Andries church in Antwerp (1658), the front carefully worked out, the back more global in finish, two vent holes. Peter is standing next t...
EditorialHengrave Hall, Bury St. Edmunds. Catalogue of the interesting and historical contents of the mansion, carefully collected during two centuries by members of the Kyston and Gage families, and comprising early English mahogany bed room suites ... old Chi...
EditorialSonnets. [The text carefully prepared from the earliest editions by John Gray. The ornaments designed and cut on the wood by Charles S. Ricketts.] : Sidney, Philip, Sir, 1554-1586.
EditorialLimestone statue of a young man, Classical, mid-4th century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, H. 63 3/4 in. (161.9 cm), Stone Sculpture, The head and body are from two different statues. The regular features and serene expression of the face as well as the car...
EditorialScene from the Last Judgment, Study for the Fresco Decoration of One of the Segments of the Cupola of the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence, 1576?79, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash, over red chalk on ecru paper. The paper is cut t...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Leaving the Conservatory (La Sortie du conservatoire), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876?1877, Oil on canvas, Renoir uses subtle body language to convey the flirtatious nature of this exchange among a group of young Parisians gathered ...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Leaving the Conservatory (La Sortie du conservatoire), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1876?1877, Oil on canvas, Renoir uses subtle body language to convey the flirtatious nature of this exchange among a group of young Parisians gathered ...
EditorialPierre-Auguste Renoir: Woman with Fan (Femme ? l'?ventail), Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1886, Oil on canvas (later mounted to cradled panel), This painting is a good example of the drastic shift in Renoir's style during the mid-1880s. After several years of...
EditorialOhisa of the Takashima tea-shop, Edo period, Japan, c1792-c1793. Ohisa turns to glance questioningly at someone just outside the picture. Her black gauze kimono has a pattern of yellow and white flashes, and the neck line is carefully arranged to revea...
EditorialA Dominican friar as patron instructing a secular artist: 'Ore feres bien e nettement car mustre serra a riche gent' ('Now do it well and carefully, for it will be shown to important people'). An angel watching from above. . Holkham Bible Picture Book....
EditorialSelf-Portrait, ca. 1893, Oil on canvas, 16 1/4 x 12 7/8 in. (41.3 x 32.7 cm), Paintings, Eug?ne Carri?re (French, Gournay 1849?1906 Paris), In 1887 Carri?re painted the first of at least ten self-portraits, all executed in the artist's characteristic m...