EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora with twisted handles (jar), Late Classical, ca. 350?325 B.C., Greek, South Italian, Campanian, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 10 7/16 in. (26.5 cm), Vases, Obverse, young warrior seated on an altar and bearded warrior. Reverse, yout...
EditorialFrancisco de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828). Spanish painter. La Tauromaquia (Bullfighting). Another madness of his in the same square (Otra locura suya en la misma plaza). The protagonist is Martincho. Number 19. Etching. San Fernando Royal Academy of F...
EditorialThe Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop, After Having Remained in the Water During Five Hours.
EditorialThe Perilous Situation of Major Mony, When He Fell into the Sea with His Balloon on the 23rd of July, 1785, Off the Coast of Yarmouth; Most Providentially Discovered and Taken Up by the Argus Sloop, After Having Remained in the Water During Five Hours.
EditorialIrises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges), ?????, Edo period (1615?1868), after 1709, Japan, Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold leaf on paper, Image (each screen): 64 7/16 in. x 11ft. 6 3/4 in. (163.7 x 352.4 cm), Screens, Ogata Korin ...
EditorialSulking, ca. 1870, Oil on canvas, 12 3/4 x 18 1/4 in. (32.4 x 46.4 cm), Paintings, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), Two well-known personalities in the art world, the writer Edmond Duranty and model Emma Dobigny, posed for this early genre ...
EditorialJar, late 12th?first half 13th century, Made in Syria, Raqqa, Stonepaste; underglaze painted in blue, luster-painted on transparent glaze, H. 9 3/8 in. (23.8 cm), Ceramics, Nineteenth-century antiquarians? fascination with The Thousand and One Nights a...
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora with twisted handles (jar), Late Classical, ca. 350?325 B.C., Greek, South Italian, Campanian, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 10 7/16 in. (26.5 cm), Vases, Obverse, young warrior seated on an altar and bearded warrior. Reverse, yout...
EditorialParody of Murasaki, from 'Lavender' (Wakamurasaki), chapter 5 of the Tale of Genji, Edo period (1615?1868), 18th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, 14 3/8 x 18 5/8 in. (36.5 x 47.3 cm), Paintings, Kawamata Tsuneyuki (1676 (?)?1741)...
EditorialFox Spirit in the Guise of a Traveling Monk (Hakuzosu), Meiji (1868?1912)?Taisho (1912?26) period, 19th?20th century, Japan, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, 20 1/4 x 13 1/4 in. (51.4 x 33.7 cm), Paintings, Tomioka Tessai (Japanese, 1836?1924), The vulpin...
EditorialMignon, heroine of Goethe's novel " Wilhelm Meister". Freemason Goethe made his protagonist rise in the novel's secret society just as an apprentice-mason rises to the degree of master (" Meister") in Masonry. Canvas, 110 x 92 cm.