EditorialCartouche and Fountain, Pierre Edme Babel, French, ca. 1720-1775, Pierre Edme Babel, French, ca. 1720-1775, Jacques Ch?reau, French, 16881776, Engraving on off-white laid paper, Asymmetrical composition decorated with attributes of battle. At left, a w...
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)....
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 in the night of October 23. Furious insurgents hack an...
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. Furious insurgents hack an...
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.