EditorialFan sheet of parchment (?) With tempera on the front with a 'Floralia' with Vestal virgins and on the back a medallion with two playing, naked children and a poem between two cornucopias, birds and butterflies, Fan sheet of parchment (?) On which both ...
EditorialEmbroidered picture, Medium: wool on cotton Technique: split and flat surface embroidery stitches, English schooner in full sail running off tropical island fortress that flies the British flag. Executed in a crude style that depitcs a child-like persp...
EditorialDesign for a Mantelpiece, Giuseppe Valadier, Italian, 17621839, Pen and ink on paper, A plan of the over mantel. At center top part of the framing of the fireplace and the over mantel: a pavilion in Pompeian style with thin columns, shown in perspectiv...
EditorialAltar frontal, Medium: silk, linen, metallic thread Technique: embroidered, Scenic rectangular panel with a frontal perspective of a plaza or garden. The vanishing point is at the center of the panel. Design shows an arched gate with hanging floral gar...
EditorialTitle page for F. Aguilon, Opticorum libri sex, 1613 Opticorvm libri sex (title on object), The Latin title of the book is central to a rectangular frame. Above the frame the personification of Optics. Next to her a peacock and an eagle. The statues of...
EditorialTitle page for F. Aguilon, Opticorum libri sex, 1613 Opticorvm libri sex (title on object), The Latin title of the book is central to a rectangular frame. Above the frame the personification of Optics. Next to her a peacock and an eagle. The statues of...
EditorialFan sheet of parchment (?) With tempera on the front with a 'Floralia' with Vestal virgins and on the back a medallion with two playing, naked children and a poem between two cornucopias, birds and butterflies, Fan sheet of parchment (?) On which both ...
EditorialThe Annunciation. A border of flowers, fruit, birds, insects, &c., in perspective on a pale gold ground. An inscription (in Anne Boleyns hand) is at the foot of the folio, 'Be daly prove you shalle me fynde to be to you bothe lovynge and kynde', with...
EditorialBirds eye view of China. Todo ichiranzu (view of China). Japan, 1840. Perspective map of China by Japanese artist Hokusai (1760-1849). Image taken from Todo ichiranzu (view of China). Originally published/produced in Japan, 1840. . Source: Maps.188.v...
EditorialThe Annunciation. A border of flowers, fruit, birds, insects, &c., in perspective on a pale gold ground. An inscription (in Anne Boleyns hand) is at the foot of the folio, 'Be daly prove you shalle me fynde to be to you bothe lovynge and kynde', with...