EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora, Proto-Attic, early 7th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta, H. 11 11/16 in. (29.7 cm), Vases, The style of this vase represents the transition from Geometric, with its preponderance of ornament and its spare artistic idiom, ...
EditorialReading the News at the Weavers' Cottage, 1673, Pen and brown ink, watercolor, white heightening, traces of graphite; framing lines by the artist (?) in brown ink and gold., 9 5/8 x 7 15/16 in. (24.4 x 20.2 cm), Drawings, Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, Haa...
EditorialPrince and Ladies in a Garden, mid-18th century, Made in India, Lucknow, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 10 5/8 x 7 3/8in. (27 x 18.7cm), Codices, Nidha Mal, This scene of leisure typifies the gracious style of later Mughal painting practice...
EditorialPair of bronze cymbals, Classical, 5th?4th century B.C., Greek, Peloponnesian, Bronze, Diam.: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Bronzes, Inscribed in Greek, of Kallisthenia. Cymbals were a favorite instrument of the Greeks, especially in religious ceremonies of an e...
EditorialHe Practiced Everyday, plate two from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 217 x 288 mm (image); 227 x 298 mm (plate); 750 x 547 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five plates on ivory wove p...
EditorialTwo demon brothers 'sprang up'. Praheti practiced asceticism and is shown in ascetic garb seated next to a hut in the right background of the picture. Heti is shown in the right foreground seeking a wife, and then with his wife, Bhaya, sister of Kala, ...
EditorialHe Practiced Everyday, plate two from Uruguayan Torture Series. Luis Camnitzer; American, born Germany, 1937. Date: 1983. Dimensions: 217 x 288 mm (image); 227 x 298 mm (plate); 750 x 547 mm (sheet). Color photo-etching from five plates on ivory wove p...
EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora, Proto-Attic, early 7th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta, H. 11 11/16 in. (29.7 cm), Vases, The style of this vase represents the transition from Geometric, with its preponderance of ornament and its spare artistic idiom, ...
Editorial[Model of a P.L.M. Locomotive], ca. 1855, Paper negative, Image: 12 5/16 ? 18 7/8 in. (31.2 ? 48 cm), Negatives, Dominique Roman (French, 1824?1911), Roman practiced several kinds of metallurgy, from goldsmithing to mirror making, which in turn contrib...
EditorialTwo demon brothers 'sprang up'. Praheti practiced asceticism and is shown in ascetic garb seated next to a hut in the right background of the picture. Heti is shown in the right foreground seeking a wife, and then with his wife, Bhaya, sister of Kala, ...
EditorialPair of bronze cymbals, Classical, 5th?4th century B.C., Greek, Peloponnesian, Bronze, Diam.: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Bronzes, Inscribed in Greek, of Kallisthenia. Cymbals were a favorite instrument of the Greeks, especially in religious ceremonies of an e...