EditorialCretan: Nativity of Christ, Unidentified artist, Cretan, 15th century, Oil (and tempera?) with gold leaf on panel, This gold-ground panel was painted in Crete, a Greek island that was once part of the Byzantine Empire and a center of Orthodox Christian...
EditorialCretan: Nativity of Christ, Unidentified artist, Cretan, 15th century, Oil (and tempera?) with gold leaf on panel, This gold-ground panel was painted in Crete, a Greek island that was once part of the Byzantine Empire and a center of Orthodox Christian...
EditorialCretan: Nativity of Christ, Unidentified artist, Cretan, 15th century, Oil (and tempera?) with gold leaf on panel, This gold-ground panel was painted in Crete, a Greek island that was once part of the Byzantine Empire and a center of Orthodox Christian...
EditorialAphritis, Print, Hover flies (family Syrphidae) of the genus Microdon are unusual among the Diptera. Like other members of the subfamily, they are myrmecophiles, meaning they inhabit the nests of ants.
EditorialParadiso, Canto XXIII. Miniature shows Heaven of the Fixed Stars. Dante and Beatrice hover beside a circle of stars surrounding Christ and kneeling souls. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa 1450. Source: Yates Thompson 36, f.170. Language: Italian.
EditorialThe Heaven of the Moon. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa 1450. [Whole folio] Paradiso, Canto II. Beatrice explains to Dante the appearance of the Moon. Dante and Beatrice hover above two smiths working at an anvil; eclipse of the sun; a youth, wit...
EditorialThe Mystery of the Redemption. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa 1450. [Miniature only] Paradiso, Canto VII. Beatrice explains to Dante the Mystery of Redemption. They hover before Justinian within the Heaven of Mercury.The Fall, the Annunciation a...
EditorialSt Thomas Aquinas and saints. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa1450. [Miniature only] Paradiso, Canto XI. Dante and Beatrice hover beside the Heaven of the Sun in which are St.Thomas Aquinas, who presents St. Dominic and St. Francis, the founders o...
EditorialParadiso, Canto XXIII. Miniature shows Heaven of the Fixed Stars. Dante and Beatrice hover beside a circle of stars surrounding Christ and kneeling souls. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa 1450. Source: Yates Thompson 36, f.170. Language: Italian.
EditorialThe Celestial City. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa 1450. [Miniature only] Paradiso, Canto XXX. The Empyrean. Beatrice and Dante hover beside the celestial city, with the congregation of the blessed seated on benches around an empty imperial thro...
EditorialParadiso, Canto XXIV. Miniature shows Heaven of the Fixed Stars. Dante and Beatrice hover beside St. Peter within a circle of stars. St. Peter interrogates Dante on his Christian faith. Divine Comedy. Italy [Tuscany]; circa 1450. Source: Yates Thompson...
EditorialParadiso, Canto X. Beatrice and Dante hover beside the Heaven of the Sun meet those distinguished for their wisdom.They are greeted by St.Thomas Aquinas with Albertus Magnus. Seated below are ten representatives of wisdom; Bede, St. Ambrose, Isidore of...
EditorialChrist on the Cross, around 1541. This drawing shows the crucified and living Christ with his head turned upwards to heaven. Two mourning angels hover in the sky below the arms of the cross. At the foot of the cross lies a skull to indicate the setting...
EditorialLimestone carving of the enlightenment of the Buddha, 1st BCE. A group of men worship at the spot; at the base of the empty throne are the Buddha's footprints with the "Wheel of the Law" set in motion by Buddha's first sermon. A pair of kimranas (semi ...
Editorial?? ?????, Female Dancer, Western Han dynasty (206 B.C.?A.D. 9), 2nd century B.C., China, Earthenware with slip and pigment, H. 21 in. (53.3 cm); W. 9 3/4 in. (24.8 cm); D. 7 in. (17.8 cm), Tomb Pottery, This figure vividly captures the moment when, wit...
Editorial???????, ?Window onto Bamboo on a Rainy Day?, Edo period (1615?1868), first half of the 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 52 5/8 ? 22 13/16 in. (133.7 ? 58 cm), Paintings, Gion Nankai (Japanese, 1677?1751), The top two-thirds of...
EditorialChrist on the Cross, around 1541. This drawing shows the crucified and living Christ with his head turned upwards to heaven. Two mourning angels hover in the sky below the arms of the cross. At the foot of the cross lies a skull to indicate the setting...
EditorialOrpheus and Eurydice,15th. Orpheus in the underworld is playing to his beloved Eurydice. Demons hover behind her. From a work by Christine de Pisan. Harl.4431.fol.126 v (detail) .
EditorialLimestone carving of the enlightenment of the Buddha, 1st BCE. A group of men worship at the spot; at the base of the empty throne are the Buddha's footprints with the "Wheel of the Law" set in motion by Buddha's first sermon. A pair of kimranas (semi ...