EditorialMosaic of the Seven Sages. 4th century AD. It depicts a chapter of The Iliad. Briseis is returned to Achilles after being abducted by Agamemnon. Detail. National Museum of Roman Art. Merida. Extremadura. Spain.
EditorialRavana returns to Lanka and is cursed by the women whom he abducted. Ravana is informed by his brother Vibhishana that his sister Kumbharini has been taken away by Madhu. Ramayana. Udaipur, 1653. Source: Add. 15297(2), f.54. Language: Sanskrit.
EditorialIn their desperate search for the abducted Sītā, Rāma and Lak?ma?a have come to the Pampā lake, which is covered with lotuses and surrounded by flowering trees. It is the spring season and Rāma is continuously reminded by the mating birds and ...
EditorialHanumān now brings Rāma and Lak?ma?a into the presence of Sugrīva on the mountain. Rāma and Sugrīva clasp hands in token of their vow of friendship, watched by Lak?ma?a and the other monkeys; and then, in a similar spirit, the two walk rou...
EditorialPrzemyslaw II (1257-1296). King of Poland of the Piast dynasty. He was abducted by followers of the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1296, with the help of families of the nobility of Nalecz and Zaremba, being killed by Jakub Kaszuba on February 8 in Rogozno...
EditorialPrzemyslaw II (1257-1296). King of Poland of the Piast dynasty. He was abducted by followers of the Margrave of Brandenburg in 1296, with the help of families of the nobility of Nalecz and Zaremba, being killed by Jakub Kaszuba on February 8 in Rogozno...
EditorialHanumān now brings Rāma and Lak?ma?a into the presence of Sugrīva on the mountain. Rāma and Sugrīva clasp hands in token of their vow of friendship, watched by Lak?ma?a and the other monkeys; and then, in a similar spirit, the two walk rou...
EditorialDarab pulling up a tree to use as a weapon as Huma is abducted by Kuh Asa and the Qaysar of Rum. Darabnama. India, c.1580-1585. Source: Or. 4615, f.100v. Language: Persian.
EditorialA negro being abducted. The Negro's Complaint: a poem. To which is added,. Harvery & Darton: London, 1826. Forcing a Negro From His Home. The arrival in the West Indies. Image taken from The Negro's Complaint: a poem. To which is added, Pity for Poor ...
EditorialBut they caught Pervaneh walking alone aming the pine woods and carried her away. Act.II. Scene I Pervaneh, a beautiful woman abducted by two soldiers. . Hassan ... With illustrations by Thomas Mackenzie. London : William Heinemann, 1924. Source: 11...
EditorialRavana returns to Lanka and is cursed by the women whom he abducted. Ravana is informed by his brother Vibhishana that his sister Kumbharini has been taken away by Madhu. Ramayana. Udaipur, 1653. Source: Add. 15297(2), f.54. Language: Sanskrit.
EditorialSugrīva is at first frightened, thinking that these armed warriors have been sent by his usurping brother Bāli to destroy him. He sends his sagacious minister Hanumān to find out more about the two strangers. Hanumān introduces himself, finds out t...
EditorialIn their desperate search for the abducted Sītā, Rāma and Lak?ma?a have come to the Pampā lake, which is covered with lotuses and surrounded by flowering trees. It is the spring season and Rāma is continuously reminded by the mating birds and ...
EditorialHanumān now brings Rāma and Lak?ma?a into the presence of Sugrīva on the mountain. Rāma and Sugrīva clasp hands in token of their vow of friendship, watched by Lak?ma?a and the other monkeys; and then, in a similar spirit, the two walk rou...
EditorialDarab pulling up a tree to use as a weapon as Huma is abducted by Kuh Asa and the Qaysar of Rum. Darabnama. India, c.1580-1585. Source: Or. 4615, f.100v. Language: Persian.
EditorialA bas-de-page scene of a knight killing a wild man who has abducted a woman. Decretals of Gregory IX with glossa ordinaria (the 'Smithfield Decretals'). France, S. (Toulouse?); last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century. Source...
EditorialThe Siege of Ujjain and the Magic She-Ass: Folio from the Kalakacarya Section of a Kalpasutra Manuscript, 16th century, India (Gujarat), Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, Overall: 4 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (11.5 x 28.6 cm), Paintings, This scene depi...
EditorialFive numbered scenes, each after a painter in the Accademia Degl'Incamminati, from IL FUNERALE D'AGOSTINO CARRACCIO FATTO IN BOLOGNA SUA PATRIA DAGL'INCAMINATI Academici del Disegno: 1. Ceres lamenting the death of Carracci before Jupiter, painted by I...
EditorialThe Siege of Ujjain and the Magic She-Ass: Folio from the Kalakacarya Section of a Kalpasutra Manuscript, 16th century, India (Gujarat), Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, Overall: 4 1/2 x 11 1/4 in. (11.5 x 28.6 cm), Paintings, This scene depi...
EditorialBeauty Looking at Her Image in a Mirror, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1840, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print (surimono); ink and color on paper, 8 1/16 x 7 1/8 in. (20.5 x 18.1 cm), Prints, Utagawa Sadakage (Japanese, active mid-19th century), Sadakage...
EditorialRama and Lakshmana on Mount Pavarasana, ca. 1700, India (Punjab Hills, Bahu), Ink, opaque watercolor, and silver on paper, 7 x 12 1/8 in. (17.8 x 30.8 cm), Paintings, Rama is shown with his brother at the summit of Mount Pavarasana passing a sleepless ...
EditorialCatherine of Orliens abducted in The Hague by Johan Diederik de Mortaigne and taken by carriage to Kuilenburg (Culemborg), 1664, Jan Luyken, Pieter van der Aa I, 1698.
EditorialHelen of Troy. Wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris, which triggered the Trojan War. Engraving after a painting of Maignan, Helen in the Fountain. The Iberian Illustration, 1885. Colored.
EditorialHelen of Troy. Wife of Menelaus, was abducted by Paris, which triggered the Trojan War. Engraving after a painting of Maignan, Helen in the Fountain. The Iberian Illustration, 1885.
EditorialDejaneira abducted by the centaur Nessus, 1620-1621. Painted for Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga, for his villa Favorita outside Mantua. Canvas, 239 x 193 cm INV. 537.
EditorialA castle on the seashore (a murder in the parc),1859: A bandit flees with a woman in his arms;he has killed the husband who tried to defend his wife.Two accomplices wait in a boat with another abducted girl. Canvas,112 x 117,3 cm.
EditorialSarcophagus of Charlemagne (Proserpina sarcophagus). Proserpina is abducted by Pluto and Minerva, Mercury leads the chariot, while Proserpina's mother Ceres watches (2nd CE). Charlemagne was buried in this sarcophagus until 1165.
EditorialChronique de la Bouquechardiere, world-history composed by Jean de Courcy (1350-1431), seigneur de Bourg-Achard. Around 1470, French, parchment,43 x 31 cm,364 pages. King Priam greets his son Paris and Helena,whom Paris has abducted. Volume 1,fol.85.
EditorialThe rape of Persephone, Zeus' daughter. She is abducted by Hades and carried by force into the underworld. Second half 2nd CE. Marble Inv. I 1126.
EditorialIvory relief of Rama and Lakshmana, from Tamil Nadu, India. Nayaka period, late 16th-17th century. From the Hindu epic Ramayana. Rama is seated in deep thought.Rama's wife Sita was abducted by the demon Ravana. After a series of adventures Rama defea...