EditorialThe Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple. The Mahant (the high priest of the Shiva temple, Tarakeshwar) holds a 'nargila' pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him ...
EditorialThe Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple. The Mahant (the high priest of the Shiva temple, Tarakeshwar) holds a 'nargila' pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him ...
EditorialThe Letter, 1746, Oil on canvas, 24 x 19 1/2 in. (61 x 49.5 cm), Paintings, Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) (Italian, Venice 1701?1785 Venice), An older man with a coin in his hand negotiates with a procuress for the favors of a pretty young woman, who re...
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Eighth night: The deceitful wife ejects the procuress after blackening her face, 1558-1560. Shravana (Indian). Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper;.
EditorialPage from Tales of a Parrot (Tuti-nama): Seventeenth night: The old procuress conveys the young man?s message of love to Mansur?s wife, c. 1560. India, Mughal, Reign of Akbar, 16th century. Opaque watercolor, ink and gold on paper.
EditorialThe Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple. The Mahant (the high priest of the Shiva temple, Tarakeshwar) holds a 'nargila' pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him ...
EditorialThe Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple. The Mahant (the high priest of the Shiva temple, Tarakeshwar) holds a 'nargila' pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him ...
EditorialThe Procuress, ca. 1620s, Black chalk on buff paper., 7 7/8 x 10 5/16 in. (20 x 26.2 cm), Drawings, Georges Lallemand (French, Nancy ca. 1580?1636 Paris).
EditorialThe Letter, 1746, Oil on canvas, 24 x 19 1/2 in. (61 x 49.5 cm), Paintings, Pietro Longhi (Pietro Falca) (Italian, Venice 1701?1785 Venice), An older man with a coin in his hand negotiates with a procuress for the favors of a pretty young woman, who re...
EditorialThe Mahant sees Elokeshi at the Tarakeshwar temple. The Mahant (the high priest of the Shiva temple, Tarakeshwar) holds a 'nargila' pipe and sits on a striped rug in front of the temple, a second man, perhaps his agent, Kinaram, behind him. Before him ...
EditorialPhaedra, wife of Theseus, confesses her passion to Hyppolitos, her stepson. Amor, god of love, on her knees, her nurse as procuress behind Phaedra. From the " Sarcophagus of Phaedra and Hyppolitos", imported Attic work. Marble, mid-3rd. Cat. 153.