EditorialThe Child Mary Spinning. Shown here after Mary?s parents placed her in temple (aged 3-13) where she excelled at spinning wool, linen, and silk and making priestly robes. Oil on canvas; Cuzco school, Peru; 18th century. The Cuzco School of Pai...
EditorialArtist: Shiokawa Bunrin, Japanese, 18081877, Seven Fireflies in the?Moonlight, mid-19th?century, Hanging scroll, ink and color on silk, without mounting: 51 1/8 ? 20 15/16 in. (129.8 ? 53.2 cm), Shiokawa Bunrin was one of the leading painters of the Sh...
Editorialengraving, Petrus Schenk, second half of the 17th century, Signature front bottom right: P. Schenk Fec, ink, paper, printed, Image size: 28.4 x 20.8cm (284 x 208mm), Day size: 29.5 x 22.5cm (295 x 225mm), With passe-partout: 42.5 x 30cm (425 x 300mm), ...
EditorialRobert Feke, Portrait of Brigadier General Samuel Waldo, ca. 1748-1750, oil on canvas, 96 5/8 in. x 60 1/4 in. (245.43 cm x 153 cm), Robert Feke's full-length portrait of Samuel Waldo commemorates the officer's leadership in the British and American vi...
EditorialEastman Johnson, Portrait of Charles Appleton Packard, 1856, charoal and pastel, with traces of graphite on brown wove paper, 24 1/2 in. x 18 7/16 in. (62.23 cm x 46.83 cm), A Maine native, Eastman Johnson excelled in portraiture. He left for Europe in...
EditorialGiulio Romano, Two Women, 1492-1546, pen and brown ink, brown wash, traces of black chalk on paper, 7 1/16 in. x 5 13/16 in. (18 cm. x 14.7 cm.), This large landscape from James Bowdoin III's collection reflects the artist's firsthand experience of the...
EditorialThe Child Mary Spinning. Shown here after Mary?s parents placed her in temple (aged 3-13) where she excelled at spinning wool, linen, and silk and making priestly robes. Oil on canvas; Cuzco school, Peru; 18th century. The Cuzco School of Pai...
EditorialThe Child Mary Spinning. Shown here after Mary?s parents placed her in temple (aged 3-13) where she excelled at spinning wool, linen, and silk and making priestly robes. Oil on canvas; Cuzco school, Peru; 18th century. The Cuzco School of Pai...
EditorialBronze horse muzzle, Imperial, 1st?2nd century A.D., Roman, Bronze, Overall: 4 3/16 x 5 3/4 x 7 1/8 in. (10.6 x 14.7 x 18.1 cm), Bronzes, The cavalry was a minor part of the Roman army, whose main strength lay in the heavy infantry?the legions and thei...