EditorialCap crown, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style, Cap crown worked with a centralized motif with branching leaves suggesting a fleur-de-lis., Belgium, 18th century, lace, Cap crown.
EditorialBand, Medium: linen Technique: needle lace with ground of loop and twist with twist return, Band of Point d'Alen?on worked with allover design of elaborated leaf and flower forms and dominating centralized pomegranate motifs. Irregular edge formed by l...
EditorialOrnamental Foliage with a Mask and a Bowl of Fruit (Autre, offrant au milieu d'en bas un mascaron...) Ornamental Foliage with an Old Man and Two Children, Enea Vico, Italian, 15231567, Engraving on white laid paper, Sheet contains two rinceaux designs....
EditorialCap crown, Medium: linen Technique: bobbin lace, Brussels style, Cap crown worked with a centralized motif with branching leaves suggesting a fleur-de-lis., Belgium, 18th century, lace, Cap crown.
EditorialDesign for a Chimneypiece, Unknown, Pen and brown ink, brush and black wash, black chalk on cream paper, Architectural design shows recessed fireplace with an architrave mantelpiece decorated with heavy scrollwork and a centralized mask. Above this, th...
EditorialBorder, Block printed and flocked paper, Border design in three shades of light brown distemper and one shade of darker brown flock. Symmetrical, sparse and etenuated strap-work patterns with shells and lion heads centering medallions in the pattern. L...
EditorialFrieze, Hobbs, Benton & Heath, Hoboken, New Jersey, Machine-printed paper, Pattern of large medallions outlined in gilt rinceaux with centralized white rose and leaf bouquets. Outside medallion are branches and wild flowers. In between each medallion l...
EditorialBand, Medium: linen Technique: needle lace with ground of loop and twist with twist return, Band of Point d'Alen?on worked with allover design of elaborated leaf and flower forms and dominating centralized pomegranate motifs. Irregular edge formed by l...
EditorialJean Warin, Cardinal Richelieu (Armand-Jean du Plessis) (1585-1642), 1630, bronze, 3 1/16 in. (7.7 cm.), Cardinal Richelieu, Armand-Jean du Plessis (1585-1642) is responsible for transforming France into a strong and centralized state, and he is known ...
Editorialvan der Stradanus, Christ Among the Doctors, after 1551, brush and brown ink and brown wash over black chalk on paper, 16 1/8 in. x 10 15/16 in. (40.9 cm. x 27.8 cm.), This drawing by Flemish-born painter Stradanus, who spent most of his professional l...
EditorialPartial view of a Building [Templum Iovis Ultoris) from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles'.
EditorialDesigns for Componets of Stage Sets: at Bottom: Spiral and Wreathed-Colonnaded Pavillion with Central Arch Surmounted by Military Trophy and Another Hanging Inside Arch; at Top: Centralized Pavillion Decorated by Pediment Surmounted by Fountain.
EditorialPartial view of a Building [Templum Iovis Ultoris) from the series 'Ruinarum variarum fabricarum delineationes pictoribus caeterisque id genus artificibus multum utiles'.
EditorialOsakazu Byobu (Osakajo-zu byobu) - Japanese eight-panel folding screen showing the cityscape of Osaka during the Toyotomi Era (1583-1615) in the Momoyama Period. Housed in Schloss Eggenberg (Eggenberg Castle Museum) Graz, Austria. Panel 4 - A samurai...
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