EditorialPeat Carrier Guild of Amsterdam, Guild Medal of Jan van der Spring, Overman, Silver Medal. Front: man with piled peat basket on his neck standing between toppled basket and house, with a pulley with rope hanging, above it on cloud: crowned coat of arms...
EditorialPacino di Bonaguida: Saint Bartholomew, Pacino di Bonaguida, c. 1320, Tempera and tooled gold on panel, This painting was originally part of a larger altarpiece, the central panel of which depicted a Virgin and Child (now at the Accademia in Florence)....
EditorialStatue of Idrimi, King of Alalakh, Late Bronze Age. Eyebrows and eyelids were originally inlaid. An inscription tells that he was one of the sons of the royal house of Aleppo; Alalakh was a smaller city state of Aleppo. After a failed revolt, Idrimi fl...
EditorialMadrasa of Sultan Hasan al-Nasir, Mamluk-style. 1356-1363. Sultan Hasan was assassinated in 1361; when one of the two minarets toppled in 1360 and killed 300 people, the minaret was left unfinished and is now shorter.
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. The Stalin monument was toppled during the night of October 23 and furious insurgents hac...
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. The Stalin monument was toppled in the night of October 23 and furious insurgents hacked ...
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23, 1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. The Stalin monument was toppled during the night of October 23. Furious insurgents hac...
EditorialThe Hungarian Revolution began with a first mass-rally in Budapest on October 23,1956. It was crushed by Soviet tanks and artillery after days of street-fighting. The Stalin monument was toppled in the night of October 23 and furious insurgents hacked ...
EditorialShipbuilding in the wharf at Gdansk (Danzig),1956. Former Polish president Lech Walesa was an electrician in the Gdansk shipyard,when he started "Solidarnosz", the Union which toppled Poland's Communist regime. Gdansk,1956.
EditorialIn front of ahus (ceremonial platforms) and toppled moai statues are circles laid out with stones. Their purpose is unknown-meeting places for common meals during festivals, meditation circles-there is no local tradition to explain these spaces.
EditorialDuring the 15th century, the ancestor cult with moai-statues lost importance. Moais were toppled, as here in Ahu Tahiri, and half-finished statues abandoned in the quarry of Rano Raraku volcano.
EditorialStatue of Idrimi, King of Alalakh, Late Bronze Age. Eyebrows and eyelids were originally inlaid. An inscription tells that he was one of the sons of the royal house of Aleppo; Alalakh was a smaller city state of Aleppo. After a failed revolt, Idrimi fl...
EditorialMadrasa of Sultan Hasan al-Nasir, Mamluk-style. 1356-1363. Sultan Hasan was assassinated in 1361; when one of the two minarets toppled in 1360 and killed 300 people, the minaret was left unfinished and is now shorter.