EditorialThe Spanish pagan Preciosa, The Spanish pagan Preciosa stands for a richly dressed man. A woman bares a breast of Preciosa. Behind these three, an elderly Roma woman steals jewelery from a box on a table. At the time, Heidin was the common name for a R...
EditorialWoman on a cart is mocked XCII. On seeing a whore, put on a cart by the court, and mocked by everyone (title on object), a lady of light morals on a cart. Children pick up stones and point at her. Two figures on the left. Pent from a book in which 36 p...
EditorialThe Destruction of the Great Whore of Babylon in Flames, and the Triumph in Heaven, [Revelation, 19, 1-6]. The figure in flames, with Christ in a mandorla, angels trumpeting, and the symbols of the evangelists, above. Text beginning with decorated init...
EditorialJohn on the left; the angel speaks to him from above and points to the whore sitting on the waters; the whore, in dull purple, sits on the beast and holds a cup. Apocalypse ('The Queen Mary Apocalypse'). England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia. First q...
EditorialJohn on the left; the angel on a mound; the whore sits on the waters. Apocalypse ('The Queen Mary Apocalypse'). England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia. First quarter of the 14th century. The illuminations include 73 miniatures in colours and gold. Dec...
EditorialThe Babylonian Whore, from The Apocalypse, n.d., Woodcut, sheet: 17 3/8 x 12 in. (44.1 x 30.5 cm), Prints, Albrecht D?rer (German, Nuremberg 1471?1528 Nuremberg).
EditorialThe Fat Whore. Edvard Munch; Norwegian, 1863-1944. Date: 1897. Dimensions: 250 x 200 mm (image); 554 x 454 mm (sheet). Woodcut with gouges, chisel and fretsaw on heavy, cream wove paper. Origin: Norway.
EditorialJudgment of God on Sin in the form of the Whore of Babylon, with angels above and dragons and demons below in hell. Handcoloured etching drawn and etched by Thomas Fisher from his Paintings on the Walls of the Chapel of the Trinity, Stratford upon Avon...
EditorialThe Destruction of the Great Whore of Babylon in Flames, and the Triumph in Heaven, [Revelation, 19, 1-6]. The figure in flames, with Christ in a mandorla, angels trumpeting, and the symbols of the evangelists, above. Text beginning with decorated init...
EditorialJohn on the left; the angel speaks to him from above and points to the whore sitting on the waters; the whore, in dull purple, sits on the beast and holds a cup. Apocalypse ('The Queen Mary Apocalypse'). England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia. First q...
EditorialJohn on the left; the angel on a mound; the whore sits on the waters. Apocalypse ('The Queen Mary Apocalypse'). England, S. E. (London), or East Anglia. First quarter of the 14th century. The illuminations include 73 miniatures in colours and gold. Dec...
EditorialAnnabella ('Tis Pity She's a Whore). Dated: 1894. Dimensions: sheet: 25 x 32.7 cm (9 13/16 x 12 7/8 in.). Medium: lithograph in black on light brown wove paper.
EditorialPride and Folly, from a Series of Tazza Designs, ca. 1588, Engraving, Sheet: 5 1/16 ? 4 13/16 in. (12.9 ? 12.2 cm), Theodor de Bry (Netherlandish, Li?ge 1528?1598 Frankfurt), In the central medallion, a portrait of a jester in profile (facing right) me...
EditorialThe Babylonian Whore, from The Apocalypse, n.d., Woodcut, sheet: 17 3/8 x 12 in. (44.1 x 30.5 cm), Prints, Albrecht D?rer (German, Nuremberg 1471?1528 Nuremberg).
EditorialJudgment of God on Sin in the form of the Whore of Babylon, with angels above and dragons and demons below in hell. Handcoloured etching drawn and etched by Thomas Fisher from his Paintings on the Walls of the Chapel of the Trinity, Stratford upon Avon...
EditorialThe Great Whore riding on the Seven-headed Beast, Tapestry of the Apocalypse made for Louis I of Anjou, from cartons (patterns) by Hennequin de Bruges. The tapestry was woven in Paris in the workshop of Nicolas Bataille, 1375-1380. 168 x 500 cm.