EditorialThe Great Rosary, Erhard Sch?n, German, 1491-1542, Woodcut on paper, A densely populated image, at the center of which is the crucifixion. Surrounded by a ring of flowers, the figure of Christ is flanked by rows outlining the hierarchies of heaven and ...
EditorialTextile, Medium: plain weave cotton Technique: mordant and resist painted; immersion dyed (chintz), Scrolling vines with red and blue flowers, including tulips and carnations, on a cream-colored ground. Emphasis is given to the forms of the flowers by ...
EditorialGemme (Egyptianizing figure with slit skirt), Carnelian, lithotomy, drilled, Carnelian, Total: Height: 2.3 cm; Width: 1.7 cm; Depth: 1.32 cm, body ornamentation, glyptic, human body/figure/nude, early archaic, The stone has a scaraeoid form with a curv...
EditorialKantharos with dedicatory inscription to Heracles, estate of a German classical philologist, clay, quickly turned, hand modeled, painted (ceramic), fired (ceramic), clay, total: height: 24.6 cm (with handles); height: 19.6 cm (without handles); diamete...
Editorialempty animal figure: not identifiable. Only part of the fuselage and the legs are still present, rest is broken off, animal figure, earthenware, 5 x 4.2 cm, prehistory -2000.
EditorialThe amulet is rectangular in shape and polished in its entirety. Images are carved on the two largest sides. At first glance the images are not well identifiable. On one of the sides two (probably) snakes and an unidentifiable object are depicted. On t...
Editorialempty animal figure: not identifiable. Head and legs are broken off, ears and tail are still present, animal figure, pottery, 5.8 x 3.5 cm, prehistory -2000.
Editorialempty animal figure: not identifiable. Head and legs are broken off, part of the horns and tail are still present, animal figure, pottery, 4,7 x 2,8 cm, prehistory -2000.
EditorialJoshua Johnson, Portrait of a Man (Abner Coker), ca. 1805-1810, oil on canvas, 27 7/8 in. x 22 in. (70.8 cm x 55.88 cm), Joshua Johnson (occasionally spelled Johnston) is one of the earliest identifiable African American artists. This portrait is one o...
EditorialShore Road, 1942, Wax emulsion on canvas, 27 7/8 x 20 in. (70.8 x 50.8 cm), Paintings, Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880?1946 Huntington, New York), The title of this painting refers to a street in Centerport, Long Island, where Dove li...
EditorialFamily of Monkeys, Edo period (1615?1868), late 17th century, Japan, One of a triptych of hanging scrolls; ink and color on silk, 60 x 30 1/4 in. (152.4 x 76.8 cm), Paintings, Tanshin Morimasa (Japanese, 1653?1718), The central scroll depicting the dee...
EditorialRuins of a Basilica (?) from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles'.
EditorialVertical Landscape with the Ruins of the Temple of Venus and Roma, from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles'.
EditorialAn officer with the Federal Bureau of Prisons near the White House in Washington, on June 3, 2020, as demonstrators protest against the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis and police brutality. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)