EditorialFrenzy Frenzy The frenzy, The insane sits naked on a stump-like, thatched elevation on a square plinth. She has the bent left leg forwards with the foot briefly over the plinth, the right is placed diagonally backwards. She pulls her hair with both han...
EditorialThe Supper at Emmaus The Emmaus goers, On an ascending floor behind a set round table there is Christ between the two Emmaus goers, to the right of them are a man and a woman. Christ is pictured the moment He breaks the bread. The stigmata on his hands...
EditorialModel for the tomb of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp Model for the tomb of Maerten Harpertsz Tromp Sketch and model for the tomb of Maarten Harpertszoon Tromp (1598 -1653), The sketch, a raised relief, has a pedestal in the middle, on which a large urn with l...
EditorialDe Zot Seven effects of intoxication (series title), rectangular, lead, plaque with beveled edges. An old man, crowned with vines, sits next to a barrel of grapes. He is holding both hands behind him with his fingers spread. A slip, to which a fool's b...
EditorialCrozier head, Curl of a bishop's staff with Crucifixion and Virgin and Child, A leafy twig of a vine sprouts from a cracked lion's mouth, which curves into a curl and ends in a dragon, the head of which has a tongue sticking out reconnect the tips of i...
EditorialJesus among the scribes, Jesus, as a boy, sits on a platform surrounded by listeners. Two people on each side and three people on a slightly lower bench opposite him. Jesus holds the left hand in front of the waist and the right arm bent and slightly f...
EditorialDeath of the Virgin The Death of the Virgin, Fragment from the Marian Altar of the Illustrious Brotherhood of Our Blessed Lady in Den Bosch, In a wooden bedstead surrounded by the twelve apostles, Mary is completely dressed head and child on a large pi...
EditorialMudras. ‘9. Sagnon’ [sa-gnon]’ position of repose assumed by Shakya when he had freed the world from evil spirits.’ ‘So far applies to Shakya: the others are position of Deotas’ ‘10. Gingbag’ [hgyin-hbag]’ the name of hands in this po...
EditorialMudras. Inscribed:’ ‘These are many of the attitudes assumed by the lamas in their devotions, each of which has a different name.’ ‘1. Sagnon gnyumshak’ [sa-gnon-gnam-gzag]. ‘Sanon means that one hand is bent towards sa, the earth, and gnum...
EditorialMudras. ‘9. Sagnon’ [sa-gnon]’ position of repose assumed by Shakya when he had freed the world from evil spirits.’ ‘So far applies to Shakya: the others are position of Deotas’ ‘10. Gingbag’ [hgyin-hbag]’ the name of hands in this po...
EditorialMudras. ‘9. Sagnon’ [sa-gnon]’ position of repose assumed by Shakya when he had freed the world from evil spirits.’ ‘So far applies to Shakya: the others are position of Deotas’ ‘10. Gingbag’ [hgyin-hbag]’ the name of hands in this po...
EditorialMudras. Inscribed:’ ‘These are many of the attitudes assumed by the lamas in their devotions, each of which has a different name.’ ‘1. Sagnon gnyumshak’ [sa-gnon-gnam-gzag]. ‘Sanon means that one hand is bent towards sa, the earth, and gnum...
EditorialCorsage Piece, 1880?95, Made in New York, New York, United States, American, Silver, gold, diamonds, 1 3/16 x 6 1/4 in. (3 x 15.9 cm), Jewelry, Tiffany & Co. (1837?present), Diamonds had become so fashionable by the last quarter of the nineteenth centu...
EditorialBowl, Incised Hands, 7th?9th century, Mexico, Mesoamerica, Veracruz, Veracruz, Ceramic, H. 4 1/2 x Diam. 7 1/4 in. (11.43 x 18.42 cm), Ceramics, The thin-walled bowl in medium to dark-brown clay has a flat bottom and elegantly curved walls decorated on...
EditorialBOMBAY BROKERS AND TRADERS: A "Brokers' room" of an English merchant in Bombay. On the staff of each European firm is a broker, or clerk, acting in the same capacity, whose special business it is to show the goods to the Hindoo buyers, take their bids ...
EditorialIvory snuff bottle, Chinese, Qing dynasty, 19th century. This snuff bottle is in the shape of a foshou (Buddha's hand), a type of citrus fruit. The name sounds like the words fu ('happiness') and shou ('longevity'), and the fruit was often used to repr...
EditorialHuman hands in red and black. Imprints on the walls of the Cave de Gargas, France. No such imprints have been found elsewhere, nor is it known why some fingers are of rather different shape or whether the imprints have a ritualistic or mythological mea...