EditorialFire of the old Town Hall in Amsterdam The old Town Hall to Amsterdam burns on July 7 on Sunday morning, half an hour later, 2 hours Ao 1652 (title on object) the Dam on July 7, 1652. The town hall burning, the roof collapsed. The Westertoren is visibl...
EditorialBottle Bottle with the inscription: Do not extinguish the spirit, Smooth stand ring. Lightly inserted soul. Flattened, spherical body. Slim neck, around which a drip ring is placed, which is encased in a silver frame with an eye, to which a stop has be...
EditorialCremation of Buddha. The Buddha's funeral pyre attended by the disciple Kassapa (on left); streams of water come from the sky between two trees to extinguish the fire. The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c,1800-1820. Source: Or. 14298, f.20. Language: Burm...
EditorialCremation of Buddha. The Buddha's funeral pyre attended by the disciple Kassapa (on left on f.20); (f.21): streams of water come from the sky between two trees to extinguish the fire. The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c,1800-1820. Source: Or. 14298, f.21....
EditorialCremation of Buddha. The Buddha's funeral pyre attended by the disciple Kassapa (on left); streams of water come from the sky between two trees to extinguish the fire. The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c,1800-1820. Source: Or. 14298, f.20. Language: Burmese.
EditorialCremation of Buddha. The Buddha's funeral pyre attended by the disciple Kassapa (on left on f.20); (f.21): streams of water come from the sky between two trees to extinguish the fire. The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c,1800-1820. Source: Or. 14298, f.21....
EditorialSalamanders crawl through flames. Bestiary. England (Salisbury?); 1230-1240. (Miniature with text) Salamanders crawling through flames which leave them unharmed since they can extinguish them at will. Image taken from Bestiary. Originally published/p...
EditorialThe Nun, from the Dance of Death, 1651, Etching; second state of four, Sheet: 2 15/16 ? 2 3/16 in. (7.5 ? 5.5 cm), Prints, After Hans Holbein the Younger (German, Augsburg 1497/98?1543 London), A young nun is kneeling before an altar in a bedroom but s...
EditorialThe Orgy aka The Rake at the Rose-Tavern (A Rake's Progress) 1735 The Tavern Scene shows the Rake amusing himself in a notorious brothel, the Rose Tavern in Covent Garden, after an evening of drinking and hooliganism. Next to the Rake on the flo...