EditorialNegative - Anzac Day Commemoration, Broadmeadows, Victoria, circa 1920, An Anzac Day ceremony. On a platform a soldier crouches beside a prone figure, a soldier next to the platform holds a sign reading 'LEST WE FORGET'. A number of soldiers around the...
EditorialKris of a high-ranking dignitary, Sumatran kris with sheath, Sumatran kris with a corrugated blade adorned by the pamor technique and embossed with gold: diamond-shaped pattern of the crowned naga, the top of the blade ( ganja) is decorated with a myth...
EditorialAmedeo Modigliani: Beatrice (Portrait de B?atrice Hastings), Amedeo Modigliani, 1916, Oil on canvas with newsprint, A British poet and journalist, Beatrice Hastings moved to Paris in 1914, where she quickly became absorbed into the thriving avant-garde...
EditorialAmedeo Modigliani: Beatrice (Portrait de B?atrice Hastings), Amedeo Modigliani, 1916, Oil on canvas with newsprint, A British poet and journalist, Beatrice Hastings moved to Paris in 1914, where she quickly became absorbed into the thriving avant-garde...
EditorialPhotograph, Flooded Workshop, Abbotsford, Victoria, 1934, Sepia-toned photograph of workshop buildings in flood in the Kodak Australasia factory in Abbotsford, Victoria, 1934. To the right of the image is a river pump to draw water from the Yarra in ca...
EditorialProne Arab (recto), Man Playing Lute (verso), William J. Forsyth (American, 1854-1935), 1883, charcoal on off-white paper, series, Munich - Dachau Sketchbook.
EditorialPhotograph, Employees Rowing Boat in Yarra River Flood, Abbotsford, Victoria, 1934, Black and white photograph of two Kodak employees rowing a small dinghy between factory buildings during the flood in the Kodak Australasia factory in Abbotsford, Victo...
EditorialTaphozous mauritianus, Print, The Mauritian tomb bat (Taphozous mauritianus) is a species of sac-winged bat in the family Emballonuridae that is found in central and southern Africa and Madagascar. It was discovered in 1818 by ?tienne Geoffroy Saint-Hi...
EditorialPloceus philippinus, Print, The baya weaver (Ploceus philippinus) is a weaverbird found across the Indian Subcontinent and Southeast Asia. Flocks of these birds are found in grasslands, cultivated areas, scrub and secondary growth and they are best kno...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a hunter with a prone stag, while two hounds look on; a decorated initial 'D'(eus). Psalter ('The Queen Mary Psalter'). England (London/Westminster or East Anglia?); between 1310 and 1320. Source: Royal 2 B. VII, f.172. Language: L...
EditorialIllustration on page of manuscript. A wild animal being kept at bay by a man with a long spear. Man lying prone. . Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambrensis on Irish birds. England, S. (Salisbury?). Bestiary, with extracts from Giraldus Cambren...
EditorialBas-de-page scene of a man gesturing at a beaver, lying prone nearby (presumably to indicate to the hunter that he has already been castrated (see f. 101v). The testicles of beavers were believed to have medicinal properties, and according to legend, t...
EditorialIn Book 3 Rej describes the last stage of human life in which an old man is prone to ill-health and disease. This illustration showing some natural disasters, symbolically depicts the condition of old age. . Zwierciadlo [The Mirror]. W Krakowie : Maci...
EditorialThe Hero of Virtue, Mars, crowned by the Goddess of Victory. Mars' victory over vice is shown in the satyr prone under Mars' foot. The hero's renunciation of sensual love is shown by the crying Cupid. Canvas, 203 x 222 cm Inv. 956.
EditorialShrine-shaped case for an animal mummy surmounted by a lizard, Late Period?Ptolemaic Period, 664?30 B.C., From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 5.9 cm (2 5/16 in.); W. 4.6 cm (1 13/16 in.); L. 15.4 cm (6 1/16 in.), The lizard in later periods of Egyptian hist...
EditorialJug, ca. 1647, Made in England, British, Tin-enameled earthenware, H. 10 1/8 in. (25.7 cm), Ceramics, Lambeth Factories, Save for the owners? initials and accompanying date, this jug is typical of the functional, minimally decorated wares common in the...
EditorialShrine box, lizard, Ptolemaic or Roman Period, 304 B.C.?A.D. 364, From Egypt, Cupreous metal, H. 2.9 cm (1 1/8 in.); W. 2.7 cm (1 1/16 in.); L. 7.7 cm (3 1/16 in.), The lizard in later periods of Egyptian history was linked with the creator and solar g...
EditorialThe Hero of Virtue, Mars, crowned by the Goddess of Victory. Mars' victory over vice is shown in the satyr prone under Mars' foot. The hero's renunciation of sensual love is shown by the crying Cupid. Canvas, 203 x 222 cm Inv. 956.