EditorialTen centuries later, “The Tale of Genji” remains a touchstone of Japanese literature and a mirror through which society reflects and examines itself. (Ko Sasaki/The New York Times)
EditorialA crowd waits for former President Donald Trump to speak at the Turning Point USA Student Action Summit in Tampa, Fla. on July 23, 2022. (Todd Anderson/The New York Times)
EditorialPanel with inlaid representation of Pyramus and Thisbe, Panel of black marble, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ivory and various types of marble. The leaf is encased in an ebony frame and chamfered at the top corners. In the foreground it shows the dead P...
Editorialwedge or ax of touchstone, at the back of a pierced hole for attachment to a stick (so-called Breitkeile), hammer, stone, length: 14.6 cm, prehistory -4900.
Editorialwedge of touchstone smoothed on all sides, but broken at the fan and at the opposite end, rough, ax, stone, length: 13.7 cm, prehistory, Netherlands, Gelderland, Ede, Harskamp.
EditorialPanel with inlaid representation of Pyramus and Thisbe, Panel of black marble, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ivory and various types of marble. The leaf is encased in an ebony frame and chamfered at the top corners. In the foreground it shows the dead P...
EditorialClaud Lovat Fraser, English, 1890 - 1921, Costume Design for Touchstone in As You Like It, Act I, ca. 1919, Watercolor, gouache, and pen and ink over graphite pencil, Sheet: 15 1/2 ? 10 inches (39.4 ? 25.4 cm).
EditorialPanel with inlaid representation of Pyramus and Thisbe, Panel of black marble, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, ivory and various types of marble. The leaf is encased in an ebony frame and chamfered at the top corners. In the foreground it shows the dead P...
EditorialPanel with inlaid text: Mr Nicholas Verburch, Plate of black marble (?) Inlaid with mother-of-pearl. The magazine shows calligraphic curls and letters: 'Mr Nicolas Verburch a (nno) 1671. Amstelodami Dirck van Rijswijck invenit et fecit'. Plate in black...
EditorialCabinet Cabinet Cabinet Cabinet with very expensive plaques, Cabinet with stepped construction of coniferous, oak, maple and ebony and juniper. Glued with ivory and ebony, letter, olive and pansy wood, inlaid with lapis lazuli and pietre expensive plaq...
EditorialThe Crucifixion, Calvary, Nicolas II Palardin (attributed to workshop of), Luik, c. 1560, touchstone, marble (rock), h 70.0 cm ? w 54.5 cm ? d 7.5 cm.
EditorialKenau Simonsdr. Hasselaer (1526-1588), bust in relief of Kenau Simonsdr. Hasselaer, wife of Nanning Gerbrandsz. Chest. She is turned three-quarters to the left, placed against an oval flat background and dressed in a pseudo-Renaissance costume. She wea...
EditorialPortrait of a Man with Gloves, ca. 1535, Oil on wood, 8 3/8 x 6 1/2 in. (21.3 x 16.5 cm), Paintings, Corneille de Lyon (Netherlandish, The Hague, active by 1533?died 1575 Lyons), Because this portrait is closely related to Corneille?s only documented p...