EditorialSketches for paintings. Obverse: A Roman officer holds a crucifix upon a heathen altar. Reverse: Christ rising, Pasqualino Marini, Black crayon; Obverse: with pen ink, black watercolor wash on paper, Obverse: A bearded Roman soldier points at the cruci...
EditorialThe Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, ca. 1510, Oil on linden, Overall 60 3/8 x 54 1/4 in. (153.4 x 137.8 cm); painted surface 59 3/8 x 53 1/8 in. (150.8 x 134.9 cm), Paintings, Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, Kronach 1472?1553 Weimar), According to legend,...
EditorialParadiso, Canto XII. Miniature shows Dante and Beatrice hovering before St. Bonaventura in the Heaven of the Sun; the saint tells Dante the story of St. Dominic and his mission to the heathen; St. Dominic preaching to a group of heathens before Calahor...
EditorialKing Arthur and three knights slaying the heathen kings. The Fall of Princes , abridged. England, S. E. (probably Suffolk, possibly Bury St Edmunds); c. 1450 - c. 1460. Source: Harley 1766, f.218. Language: English.
EditorialGrand Duke Dmitri and his army attacking the heathen Tartars. . Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (the Tale of the Rout of Mamai). 17th century. The Skazanie is a romance in Russian Church Slavonic, composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of ...
EditorialParadiso, Canto XII. Miniature shows Dante and Beatrice hovering before St. Bonaventura in the Heaven of the Sun; the saint tells Dante the story of St. Dominic and his mission to the heathen; St. Dominic preaching to a group of heathens before Calahor...
EditorialBattle between Christians and the heathen Tartars. . Skazanie o Mamaevom Poboishche (the Tale of the Rout of Mamai). 17th century. The Skazanie is a romance in Russian Church Slavonic, composed in the 15th century, relating the struggle of the Muscovi...
EditorialSamuel Johnson. Johnson's Dictionary of the English Language in mi. Printed under the inspection of the Literary Assoc. Samuel Johnson, known as Dr. Johnson (1709-1784). English writer, critic, lexicographer and conversationalist. Portrait. Image take...
EditorialThe third paragraph (dccxciii) describes the first Viking raid on Lindisfarne, Northumberland, and the omens that preceded it In present day English : ‘Here were dreadful forewarnings come over the land of Northumbria, and woefully terrified the peop...
Editorial" 12 heathen philosophers and their planetary conjunctions" from a manuscript on astrology composed in verse; Wenzelswerkstadt, Prague. Size: 29.5 x 20 cm Inv. Sn 2652, p 2 verso.
EditorialA knight of the Israelite army kills another knight whom he finds with a heathen paramour (Pinehas kills Simri and the Midianite, Moses, 25,6-18). Illustration to "Der Ritter von Turn" (Livre du Chevalier de la Tour pour l'enseignement de ses filles) b...
EditorialThe Martyrdom of Saint Barbara, ca. 1510, Oil on linden, Overall 60 3/8 x 54 1/4 in. (153.4 x 137.8 cm); painted surface 59 3/8 x 53 1/8 in. (150.8 x 134.9 cm), Paintings, Lucas Cranach the Elder (German, Kronach 1472?1553 Weimar), According to legend,...
Editorial" 12 heathen philosophers and their planetary conjunctions" from a manuscript on astrology composed in verse; Wenzelswerkstadt, Prague. Size: 29.5 x 20 cm Inv. Sn 2652, p 2 verso.