EditorialMadonna and Child, ca. 1470, Tempera, oil, and gold on wood, 21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (54 x 40 cm) (31 x 26 inches framed), Paintings, Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venice, active by 1459?died 1516 Venice), This early work by the Venetian painter, Giovanni Bel...
EditorialEutropiichthys vacha, Print, Eutropiichthys vacha is a species of schilbid catfish native to India, Nepal, Bhutan, and Bangladesh. It can reach a length of 34 cm, and a mass of 1.35 kg. Eutropiichthys vacha is a climate sensitive species that may be se...
EditorialA relaxed face (left); Profound attention (right), plate 9 from the album, The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression. Dated: 1854-1856. Dimensions: image: 22.3 ? 16.2 cm (8 3/4 ? 6 3/8 in.) mount: 40.3 ? 27.4 cm (15 7/8 ? 10 13/16 in.). Medium: albumen...
EditorialA relaxed face (left); Profound attention (right), plate 9 from the album, The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression. Dated: 1854-1856. Dimensions: image: 22.3 ? 16.2 cm (8 3/4 ? 6 3/8 in.) mount: 40.3 ? 27.4 cm (15 7/8 ? 10 13/16 in.). Medium: albumen...
EditorialMadonna and Child, ca. 1470, Tempera, oil, and gold on wood, 21 1/4 x 15 3/4 in. (54 x 40 cm) (31 x 26 inches framed), Paintings, Giovanni Bellini (Italian, Venice, active by 1459?died 1516 Venice), This early work by the Venetian painter, Giovanni Bel...
Editorial????? ??, Ri Haku from the series Mirrors of Japanese and Chinese Poems (Shiika shashin kyo), Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1832, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, 20 3/8 x 9 in. (51.8 x 22.9 cm), Prints, Katsushika Hokusai (Japa...
EditorialGroup of Draped Figures, early 1460s, Tip of the brush (or fine pen?) and brown ink, 4 5/16 x 5 7/8 in. (11 x 14.9 cm), Drawings, Attributed to Antonello da Messina (Antonello di Giovanni d'Antonio) (Italian, Messina ca. 1430?1479 Messina), Antonello d...
Editorial???, Profound Sincerity, Edo period (1615?1868), ca0?90, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 44 ? 17 7/8 in. (111.8 ? 45.4 cm), Calligraphy, Jiun Sonja (Japanese, 1718?1804).
EditorialBird among Camellias in Snow, Edo period (1615?1868), Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on silk, Image: 39 1/16 x 11 3/16 in. (99.2 x 28.4 cm), Paintings, So Shiseki (Japanese, 1715?1786), So Shiseki, born in Edo (present-day Tokyo), went to the por...
Editorial? ??? ?????? ?, Four anecdotes from the life of Wang Xizhi, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), 1310s, China, Handscroll; ink on paper, Image: 9 5/8 x 46 1/16 in. (24.4 x 117 cm), Calligraphy, Zhao Mengfu (Chinese, 1254?1322), The emperor Yuan Renzong (r. 1312?2...
EditorialASCOT RACES: WOOLWICH, THE WINNER OF THE EMPEROR'S VASE; Little Jack made all the running, Woolwich waiting on him into the distance, and winning cleverly by a length, amidst loud cheers from a division of the Ring, and a profound silence amongst the a...