EditorialRaphael's Loggia in the Vatican [Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, plate IV], Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 1808, Pietro Camporesi, Italian, 1726 1781, Gaetano Savorelli, 1791, Raphael, (Italian, 14831520), Hand colored etching and gray ink, Description f...
EditorialRaphael's Loggia in the Vatican [Loggie di Rafaele nel Vaticano, plate IV], Giovanni Ottaviani, ca. 1735 1808, Pietro Camporesi, Italian, 1726 1781, Gaetano Savorelli, 1791, Raphael, (Italian, 14831520), Hand colored etching and gray ink, Description f...
EditorialDesign for a Tabernacle, Giuseppe Barberi, Italian, 17461809, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown wash on lined off-white laid paper, Below are the moldings of the altar furniture. The tabernacle has the shape of a building. Seen from its left corner. B...
EditorialTwo Bell Towers, Graphite, gray wash Support: laid paper, At left: the first story with the door and an inscription above it is flanked by two pylons. The second has a window in the shape of a semi-circle between two pillars, the third consists of two ...
EditorialDesign for stained glass, Alice Cordelia Morse, American, 18631961, Brush and gouache on paper, mounted on illustration board, Design of two vertical rectangles (posts) topped with a lunette (semi-circle). All are painted in chartreuse, yellow and ligh...
EditorialPietro Krohn, Bing & Gr?ndahl, lidded vessel from the heron service, foundation of Mrs. Margarete Mohrmann, Hamburg, porcelain, underglazed decoration, total: height: 13.00 cm, inscribed: Bottom: on the bottom: 3 towers, B & G, KJOBENHAN [in semi-circl...
EditorialA red-nested oil lamp with a round body and a long round spout with a flat semi-circle around the fire hole. Around the filling hole there is a relief edge and on the shoulder a palmmetten ornament. There are two short ribbed handles on both sides of t...
EditorialOne side of the pendant has the shape of a semi-circle. At the two ends of the semi-circle, two small plates with eyelets are attached. From here the hanger is tapered. At the top is a protrusion fixed in the shape of a tilted square. The pendant is pi...
EditorialA brown-burnished oil lamp with a round body. The hollow mirror is surrounded by recessed concentric circles and is decorated with a standing gladiator with a shield and sword in his hands. The small filling hole is to the right of the figure. The shor...
EditorialA red-nested oil lamp with a round body. The concave mirror is surrounded by concentric circles and is decorated with a relief image of a crab. The small filling hole is located at the top right of the figure. The short, broad spout with a small fire h...
Editorial[Whole page] Temporale. Septuagesima Sunday. Text with initial 'C', woman standing in a semi-circle of chapels. Marginal decoration. Lower margin, the parable of the labourers in the vineyard; city with grape arbours. Sherborne Missal. Sherborne, co. D...
EditorialSufis are dancing and collapsing before six shaikhs who sit in a semi-circle on a floral carpet, each dressed in a jama beneath a Persian style coat with long sleeves. The structure of a palace or shrine behind them has decorated alcoves and gold turre...
EditorialSufis are dancing and collapsing before six shaikhs who sit in a semi-circle on a floral carpet, each dressed in a jama beneath a Persian style coat with long sleeves. The structure of a palace or shrine behind them has decorated alcoves and gold turre...
EditorialBalarama is embraced. 1598. Balarama, dressed in a blue 'dhoti', holds his plough over his shoulder. Yudhishthira rises from his throne, which is set on a dais before a pavilion, as courtiers stand in a semi-circle and the Pandu brothers watch from the...
EditorialPersonification of the Sun. An illustration relating to the Philosopher's Stone. The seated figure represents the Sun; his red robe the colour of fire. The bird on the book represents a phoenix which rises from the fire. The birds carrying bows and arr...
Editorial[Whole page] Temporale. Septuagesima Sunday. Text with initial 'C', woman standing in a semi-circle of chapels. Marginal decoration. Lower margin, the parable of the labourers in the vineyard; city with grape arbours. Sherborne Missal. Sherborne, co. D...
EditorialSufis are dancing and collapsing before six shaikhs who sit in a semi-circle on a floral carpet, each dressed in a jama beneath a Persian style coat with long sleeves. The structure of a palace or shrine behind them has decorated alcoves and gold turre...
EditorialIllustration to Psalm 30 showing entertainers, including a chained bear, surrounded by semi circle of onlookers. Behind, a group of soldiers and a walled town. Harley Psalter. England [Christ Church, Canterbury]; first half of 11th century. Source: Har...