EditorialJANUARY. The heathen English called this month " Wolf-monath," because the wolves were then most ravenous. It was also called " Aefter-Yula," that is, After-Christmas. In the woodcut, four oxen are laboriously drawing the plough. At that time they did ...
EditorialA detail of “Saint Paul Directing the Burning of the Heathen Books,” a tapestry designed by the Flemish artist Pieter Coecke van Aelst in the 1530s at the Metropolitan Museum in New York on Oct. 3, 2022. (Vincent Tullo/The New York Times)
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,...
EditorialA certain cabinet junto, en sanguine engraving 1775, King George III, speechless (his caption balloon is empty), seated on the right in a high-backed chair at a table, with Lord North seated opposite presenting a paper to the King that states for the t...
EditorialA certain cabinet junto, en sanguine engraving 1775, King George III, speechless (his caption balloon is empty), seated on the right in a high-backed chair at a table, with Lord North seated opposite presenting a paper to the King that states for the t...
EditorialThe porcellane (porcelain) tower, a pagoda or heathen temple at Nanking. Collections of Costumes of Various Nations. Image taken from Collections of Costumes of Various Nations. Source: Add. 5253, 67.
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...
EditorialA heathen is strangled in the presence of Pope Urban II. Draughtsman: Simon Fokke. Dating: c. 1722 - c. 1784. Measurements: h 83 mm ? w 106 mm.
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...
EditorialThe porcellane (porcelain) tower, a pagoda or heathen temple at Nanking. Collections of Costumes of Various Nations. Image taken from Collections of Costumes of Various Nations. Source: Add. 5253, 67.
EditorialDECEMBER was called "Aerra Geola," because the sun then "turns his glorious course;" and after the introduction of Christianity, "Heilig-monath," or holy-month. December was, among the English, above all things, a month of festivity. Before the introdu...
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,...
EditorialA certain cabinet junto, en sanguine engraving 1775, King George III, speechless (his caption balloon is empty), seated on the right in a high-backed chair at a table, with Lord North seated opposite presenting a paper to the King that states for the t...
EditorialA certain cabinet junto, en sanguine engraving 1775, King George III, speechless (his caption balloon is empty), seated on the right in a high-backed chair at a table, with Lord North seated opposite presenting a paper to the King that states for the t...
EditorialJANUARY. The heathen English called this month " Wolf-monath," because the wolves were then most ravenous. It was also called " Aefter-Yula," that is, After-Christmas. In the woodcut, four oxen are laboriously drawing the plough. At that time they did ...
EditorialDECEMBER was called "Aerra Geola," because the sun then "turns his glorious course;" and after the introduction of Christianity, "Heilig-monath," or holy-month. December was, among the English, above all things, a month of festivity. Before the introdu...
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.