EditorialView of the baroque baldachin covering the main altar in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela above which there is a sculpture of St. James dressed in a pilgrim's garb enthroned and surrounded by statues of angels and kings of Spain. Solomonic colum...
EditorialStanding Atlante (a Dacian captive), Giorgio Vasari, Italian, 15111574, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on paper, Standing bearded and heavily-robed atlas or atlante, a support sculpted in the form of a man intended to take the place of a colum...
EditorialPlate II, from Theatrum instrumentorum et machinarum, Bartholomeo Vincent, Julio Paschale, Woodcut on paper, The base and top of a colum, right, and a linear measuring instrument of two markedd rods joined near the center. Description in Latin on verso...
EditorialTextile, Medium: cotton Technique: printed by engraved roller on plain weave; brown dye., Fragment of printed fabric: 6 circular, oval and octagonal pictures each illustrating a different one of the fables of Fontaine on a background of classical colum...
EditorialKnife, Steel, gilding, agate, Small knife with leaf-shaped blade. Upper rib on side with engraved scroll device, a gilded crest at bolster, reverse with gilded engraved fleur-de-lis. Handle decorated with volute scrolls, capital, and an octagonal colum...
EditorialColumella des Apollonios, marble, chiseled, marble, total: height: 83.3 cm; diameter: 19.9 cm (shaft); diameter: 22.4 cm, inscription: on shaft: , Grave monument, grave equipment, Greek script, early Hellenistic, Greek antiquity, The small marble colum...
EditorialPlan of the Temple of Neptune the King, James Bruce, 17301794, British, undated, Pen and black ink with gray wash over graphite on medium, slightly textured, cream laid paper, Sheet: 11 13/16 x 19 1/8 inches (30 x 48.6 cm), architectural subject, colum...
EditorialCobham Hall, Kent: Drawing for Wall Decoration, James Wyatt, 17461813, British, ca. 1790, Graphite, pen and black ink on moderately thick, slightly textured, beige laid paper, Sheet: 15 1/8 x 21 1/2 inches (38.5 x 54.6 cm), architectural subject, colum...
EditorialVariant Designs for the Somerset Monument: Elevation, Lewis Vulliamy, 17911871, British, undated, Watercolor and graphite with pen and black ink on smooth, thick, cream wove paper, Sheet: 10 1/2 ? 7 inches (26.7 ? 17.8 cm), architectural subject, colum...
EditorialOlivia and Maria, Robert Smirke, 17521845, British, 1822, Brown ink with brown wash, gouache and oil on medium, smooth, beige wove paper, Sheet: 4 3/16 x 3 3/8 inches (10.7 x 8.5 cm) and Frame: 8 ? 6 7/8 ? 3/4 inches (20.3 ? 17.5 ? 1.9 cm), book, colum...
EditorialView of the baroque baldachin covering the main altar in the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela above which there is a sculpture of St. James dressed in a pilgrim's garb enthroned and surrounded by statues of angels and kings of Spain. Solomonic colum...