EditorialChrist and the Canaanite Woman Canaanian Woman Twenty-four scenes from the New Testament (series title), a Canaanite woman kneeling before Christ, asking him to heal her daughter, the metaphor of the dogs and bread (Matthew 15: 21-28, Mark 7: 24-30), J...
EditorialChrist and the Canaanite Woman Canaanian Woman Twenty-four scenes from the New Testament (series title), a Canaanite woman kneeling before Christ, asking him to heal her daughter, the metaphor of the dogs and bread (Matthew 15: 21-28, Mark 7: 24-30), a...
EditorialChinese Lady Playing a Flute, Edo period (1615?1868), 17th?18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, 35 3/4 x 13 in. (90.8 x 33 cm), Paintings, Attributed to Kano Tsunenobu (Japanese, 1636?1713), Academic painters in the Edo period al...
EditorialBroadsheet with the ballad of Mr Grasshopper (a middleman) who is shown receiving communion; a metaphor for peasant suffering under corrupt landowners.
Editorial? ?? ??? ?, Crooked Pine, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), dated 1335, China, Hanging scroll; ink on silk, Image: 65 3/8 x 32 1/2 in. (166.1 x 82.6 cm), Paintings, Wu Zhen (Chinese, 1280?1354), Because it retains its greenery even in the dead of winter, the p...
EditorialThe Holy Family in an Enclosed Garden, 1512, Pen and reddish brown ink., 10 9/16 x 7 7/8 in. (26.8 x 19.8 cm), Drawings, Albrecht D?rer (German, Nuremberg 1471?1528 Nuremberg), This drawing is a variation on a popular fifteenth-century theme in which t...
Editorial? ??? ?? ?? ????????? ?, Grooms and Horses, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), date 1296 and 1359, China, Handscroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 11 7/8 x 70 1/8 in. (30.2 x 178.1 cm), Paintings, Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254?1322), Zhao Yong (Chinese, 1289?aft...
EditorialWoman and Child, Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1794?95, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 14 7/8 x 10 in. (37.8 x 25.4 cm), Prints, Kitagawa Utamaro (Japanese, 1753??1806), In this playful, amusing picture, a young boy points at ...
EditorialHead of Saint John the Baptist on a Charger, ca. 1500, Oil on poplar, Diameter 11 1/8 in. (28.3 cm), Paintings, Aelbert Bouts (Netherlandish, Leuven ca. 1451/54?1549), This grisly depiction of John the Baptist's severed head was once an extremely popul...
EditorialChinese Lady Playing a Flute, Edo period (1615?1868), 17th?18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, 35 3/4 x 13 in. (90.8 x 33 cm), Paintings, Attributed to Kano Tsunenobu (Japanese, 1636?1713), Academic painters in the Edo period al...