EditorialWoman is about to sacrifice herself, In front of a temple near a sacrificial column, a woman is about to stab a dagger into her own chest. The priest and a soldier try to keep her from that. Self-sacrifice, death in the service of a higher purpose, pla...
EditorialFailed suicide on altar Olimpia (title on object), View of an altar where a woman wants to stab herself with a knife. A rushed priest intervenes. Figures walk around the altar, two women kneel by a sacrificial column. This print was made for Voltaire's...
EditorialAllegory installation of Ernst Casimir, Count of Nassau, stadtholder of Friesland, August 5 1620, Count Ernst Casimir hand over his heart to the province of Friesland virgin, accompanied by True Religion and Abundance by Peace. The count is accompanied...
EditorialCabasset, ca. 1575, Milan, Italian, Milan, Steel, gold, silver, copper alloy, H. 9 1/4 in. (23.5 cm); W. 9 1/2 in. (29.9 cm); D. 11 3/4 in. (29.9 cm); Wt. 3 lb. 7 oz. (1551 g), Helmets, The decoration depicts the Roman soldier Marcus Curtius leaping in...
EditorialAllegory installation of Ernst Casimir, Count of Nassau, stadtholder of Friesland, August 5 1620, Count Ernst Casimir hand over his heart to the province of Friesland virgin, accompanied by True Religion and Abundance by Peace. The count is accompanied...