EditorialForms of dykes_3, Tectonics, stone tunnels that divide and reunite, woodcut, p. 47, (Liber tertius), Manuel, Hans Rudolf (graveur sur bois), 1556, Georgius Agricola: De re metallica libri XII: quibus officia, instrumenta, machinae, ac omnia denique ad ...
EditorialPolonaise Carpet', Silk carpet, Carpet, a so-called Polar carpet, knotted in silk and embroidered with gold and silver thread. Thin bands divide the midfield of this carpet into catouches. Decorations of tendrils with leaf motifs, lotus flowers, rosett...
EditorialChair covered with reed, S-shaped front and back legs with dolphins. Upper threshold with open-worked crown above a fish, between dolphin heads and volutes. Front sport with weapon in between volutes, Chair made of walnut with braided reed covering and...
EditorialHarihara, pre-Angkor period, late 7th?early 8th century, Southern Cambodia, Sandstone, H. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm); W. 13 3/8 in. (34 cm); D. 6 in. (15.2 cm), Sculpture, In Harihara imagery, Shiva is represented as the right half of the deity, his vertical...
EditorialTable, Table decorated with marquetry of pink, rosewood and olive wood and other types of wood, ivory and gilt bronze. The round table rests on three S-shaped legs, with rocaille fittings at the bottom, which merge into styles and divide the lines into...
EditorialLost Lakes, head of Conejos Canon, Colorado, in the Sierra San Juan range, near divide between Conjeos and south fork..., Timothy H. O'Sullivan (American, about 1840 - 1882), 1874, Albumen silver print.
EditorialParamecium marginatum, Print, Paramecium (also Paramoecium) is a genus of unicellular ciliates, commonly studied as a representative of the ciliate group. Paramecia are widespread in freshwater, brackish, and marine environments and are often very abun...
EditorialStigmodera, Print, Stigmodera is a genus of beetles in the family Buprestidae, the jewel beetles. It is a large genus that some authors divide into three separate genera. Others keep them together, making Stigmodera a genus of some 550 species. Most ar...
Editorial"- Finally we obtained the division of property between husband and wife... - about time, there was no more money left to divide," plate 3 from Les Avocats Et Les Plaideurs. Honor? Victorin Daumier; French, 1808-1879. Date: 1851. Dimensions: 241 ? 183 ...
EditorialOpening of Proverbs. Bible. France; circa 1260. [Whole folio] Beginning of the Book of Proverbs. Rehoboam with book on his lap, sitting at the feet of King Solomon, who holds a birch rod. Below, Solomon enthroned with crown and sceptre; a soldier in ar...
EditorialВот к чему привела коммуна русскую деревню.That’s what the communal way of living has led Russian village to. (Two pictures. The top picture depicts a ruined and ramshackle village. Three peasants fight over a pie...
Editorial"LA DIVINA COMEDIA". Poema escrito en toscano, donde se relata el viaje de su autor, DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321), hasta llegar a la CONTEMPLACION DIVINA, primero con Virgilio y despu?s, con Beatriz. La obra se divide en tres c?nticos: INFIERNO, PURGATO...
EditorialOsakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the city of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615), Momoyama Period. Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 6 - A man fishing in the Yodo rive...
EditorialOne Who Understands, 1934, Oil and gypsum on canvas, 21 1/4 x 16 in. (54 x 40.6 cm), Paintings, Paul Klee (German (born Switzerland), M?nchenbuchsee 1879?1940 Muralto-Locarno), The squared circle of the abstracted head in Klee's painting is made of the...
EditorialHarihara, pre-Angkor period, late 7th?early 8th century, Southern Cambodia, Sandstone, H. 35 1/2 in. (90.2 cm); W. 13 3/8 in. (34 cm); D. 6 in. (15.2 cm), Sculpture, In Harihara imagery, Shiva is represented as the right half of the deity, his vertical...
EditorialSection from a Qur'an, probably second half 13th century, Made in Iraq or Turkey, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper; tooled leather binding, Ht. 19 1/2 in. (49.5 cm), Codices, The Qur'an consists of 114 chapters (suras) of uneven length. A syst...
EditorialTerracotta biconical spindle-whorl with flat top, Early Cypriot I, ca. 2500?2075 B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; handmade, H. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm), The whorl is chipped at one end. Two horizontal grooves at the carination divide the body into two registers. E...
EditorialChatsworth House is a stately home in North Derbyshire, England, convert|3.5|mi|km northeast of Bakewell and west of Chesterfield. It is the seat of the Duke of Devonshire, and has been home to his family, the Cavendish family, since Bess of Hardwick s...
EditorialDANTE ALIGHIERI (Florencia, 1265-R?vena, 1321). Poeta italiano. "LA DIVINA COMEDIA" (1307-1321). "Poema sagrado", escrito en toscano, de excepcional riqueza verbal. Comprende 100 cantos de 130 a 140 versos aproximadamente y se divide en tres partes: el...
EditorialARTE MINOICO. CRETA. PALACIO DE KNOSSOS (1700-1450 a. C.). Residencia del rey, los dignatarios y el clero. El patio central lo divide en dos alas, la occidental (A) con los santuarios y las estancias oficiales estatales, y la oriental (B) donde se encu...
Editorial"LA DIVINA COMEDIA". Poema escrito en toscano, donde se relata el viaje de su autor, DANTE ALIGHIERI (1265-1321), hasta llegar a la CONTEMPLACION DIVINA, primero con Virgilio y despu?s, con Beatriz. La obra se divide en tres c?nticos: INFIERNO, PURGATO...
EditorialARTE GOTICO. ESPA?A. S. XIV. CATEDRAL DE SANTA MARIA (1170-1331). Vista del CLAUSTRO, situado al NE. de la iglesia. Se divide en grupos de tres arcos de medio punto, que descansan sobre columnas gemelas, bajo un gran arco de descarga. TARRAGONA. Catalu?a.
Editorial"LA DIVINA COMEDIA". Poema escrito en toscano, donde se relata el viaje de su autor, DANTE ALIGHIERI (Florencia, 1265-R?vena, 1321), hasta llegar a la CONTEMPLACION DIVINA, primero con Virgilio y despu?s, con Beatriz. La obra se divide en tres c?nticos...
EditorialThe Kells crozier, Irish, late 9th-11th century. The core is a staff of yew wood, now cut in two. This was first encased in bronze in the late ninth or tenth century when the staff was decorated with cast knobs (or 'knops') and cross-shaped strips. Rai...