EditorialListen, Fig. 113, CXI, Capitel LI-C, Leonhart Fuchs: New Kreuterbuch, in welchem nit allein die gantz histori, das ist, namen, gestalt, statt und zeit der wachsung [...] des meysten theyls der Kreuter so in Teutschen und andern Landen wachsen, [...] be...
EditorialWriting man in a garden looks up to listen to what two men have to tell him Title page for: M. Ca?dy, Den Persiaanschen bogaard, 1688, garden, handwriting, writing as activity, head gear: turban, Jan Luyken, Amsterdam, paper, etching, h 117 mm ? w 67 mm.
EditorialBird Tori (title on object) Flowers, birds, wind and moon (series title) Kach?f?getsu (series title on object), A man is playing a mouth organ while a phoenix is flying over. Sh?shi, a famous flute player from the Chinese Chin dynasty (255-209 BC), cou...
EditorialBaluster vase with four groups of scholars in a fenced garden, Baluster shaped porcelain vase with spreading base, wide neck and trumpet-shaped mouth, painted in underglaze blue. On the wall a continuous representation of four groups of scholars in a f...
EditorialOh! Listen to the Voice of Love. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1799. Dimensions: 185 ? 210 mm (image); 200 ? 250 mm (plate); 230 ? 260 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on paper. Origin: ...
EditorialOh! Listen to the Voice of Love. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1799. Dimensions: 185 ? 210 mm (image); 200 ? 250 mm (plate); 230 ? 260 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on paper. Origin: ...
EditorialThe " Ear of Dionys", tyrant of Siracuse (367-344 BCE). Artificial grotto, according to legend its excellent accustics permitted the tyrant to listen to the conversations of his prisoners kept in the grotto.
EditorialThe Buddha preaches to Sariputta and Moggalana. The two main disciples leave their life of luxury (on the right) and listen to the Buddha preaching (on the left). The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c.1800-1820. Source: Or. 14297, f.41. Language: Burmese.
EditorialThe Petoefi-Club, named after the hero-poet of the Hungarian Revolution 1848, met in the Budapest Officers' Club.600 people were expected,6.000 came to listen. Loudspeakers transmit the meeting in June 1956,which sparked the revolution of October.
EditorialAustrian parliamentary elections 1953. In a cold assembly hall, old-age pensioners listen to a speaker of the Austrian Socialist Party (SPOe.) Vienna,1953.
EditorialThe machine tool factory of Slowenski Brod, where self-administration by the workers was first introduced in Yugoslavia.During lunch hour,members of the bridge construction shop listen to Emil Basic,who explains why the workers'council refused them a r...
EditorialOh! Listen to the Voice of Love. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1799. Dimensions: 185 ? 210 mm (image); 200 ? 250 mm (plate); 230 ? 260 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on paper. Origin: ...
EditorialOh! Listen to the Voice of Love. James Gillray (English, 1756-1815); published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818). Date: 1799. Dimensions: 185 ? 210 mm (image); 200 ? 250 mm (plate); 230 ? 260 mm (sheet). Hand-colored etching on paper. Origin: ...
EditorialKhusraw and Shirin taking wine as they listen to a band of music. A young door-keeper seated by a brazier in the courtyard outside (the brazier itself not painted in - only the flames). 16.5 by 14.5 cm. Khamsa of Nizami. 1567. Opaque watercolour. Persi...
EditorialAngel standing in the sun. Silos Apocalypse. Spain (Silos), 1109. (Whole folio) Book of Revelation, Chapter 19, 17-18. An angel standing in the sun, crying aloud to the birds in mid-heaven. The sun represents the preaching of the church, and the faith ...
EditorialThe Buddha preaches to Sariputta and Moggalana. The two main disciples leave their life of luxury (on the right) and listen to the Buddha preaching (on the left). The Life of the Buddha. Burma, c.1800-1820. Source: Or. 14297, f.41. Language: Burmese.
EditorialThe " Ear of Dionys", tyrant of Siracuse (367-344 BCE). Artificial grotto, according to legend its excellent accustics permitted the tyrant to listen to the conversations of his prisoners kept in the grotto.
EditorialTahitian Women Bathing, 1892, Oil on paper, laid down on canvas, 43 3/4 x 35 1/8 in, Paintings, Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848?1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands), Dreaming of a paradise where he could ?listen to the silence of beautiful tropica...
EditorialMeinloch Von Sevelingen, ministerial Swabian (12th century), read a verse from the parchment to his lady who listen with caution. Fol. 120v. Codex Manesse (ca.1300) by Rudiger Manesse and his son Johannes. University of Heidelberg. Library. Germany.
EditorialLaennec, RenE`-ThE`ophile-Hyacinthe (Quimper, 1781Kerlouarnec, 1826). French doctor. In 1816 he introduced the use of a hollow tube to listen to the lungs and heart, giving rise to the modern stethoscope. He gathered his studies of auscultation in the ...
EditorialGeneral De Gaulle's first task as head of government was to defuse the situation in Algeria.In a four-day visit he tried to calm the Algerian population as well as the French "colons". Mixed French-Algerien crowds listen to De Gaulle, Constantine...
EditorialAustrian parliamentary elections 1953. In a cold assembly hall, old-age pensioners listen to a speaker of the Austrian Socialist Party (SPOe.) Vienna,1953.
EditorialThe machine tool factory of Slowenski Brod, where self-administration by the workers was first introduced in Yugoslavia.During lunch hour,members of the bridge construction shop listen to Emil Basic,who explains why the workers'council refused them a r...
EditorialThe Petoefi-Club, named after the hero-poet of the Hungarian Revolution 1848, met in the Budapest Officers' Club.600 people were expected,6.000 came to listen. Loudspeakers transmit the meeting in June 1956,which sparked the revolution of October.
EditorialWest-German elections 1953. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) won a majority. Socialist voters listen to their candidate, Erich Ollenhauer. Frankfurt, 1953.
EditorialDipaka Raga. At night, on a terrace, a princely couple listen to music. A servant holds a fly-swatter. From a Ragamala series. ID: Add Or 2788.
EditorialThe " Ear of Dionys", tyrant of Siracuse (367-344 BCE). Artificial grotto, according to legend its excellent accustics permitted the tyrant to listen to the conversations of his prisoners kept in the grotto.