EditorialPair of bronze cymbals, Classical, 5th?4th century B.C., Greek, Peloponnesian, Bronze, Diam.: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Bronzes, Inscribed in Greek, of Kallisthenia. Cymbals were a favorite instrument of the Greeks, especially in religious ceremonies of an e...
EditorialExtreme pain, the head of Christ (left); Memory of love or ecstatic gaze (right), plate 24 from the album, The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression. Dated: 1854-1856. Dimensions: image: 22.3 ? 16 cm (8 3/4 ? 6 5/16 in.) mount: 40.2 ? 27.9 cm (15 13/16...
EditorialFresco depicting a Dionysian rite. Detail of the figure of Silenus playing the lyre ecstatic and, behind, a maid or slave helping the priestess to perform the rite. 1st century AD. Villa of the Mysteries. Pompeii. Italy.
EditorialExtreme pain, the head of Christ (left); Memory of love or ecstatic gaze (right), plate 24 from the album, The Mechanism of Human Facial Expression. Dated: 1854-1856. Dimensions: image: 22.3 ? 16 cm (8 3/4 ? 6 5/16 in.) mount: 40.2 ? 27.9 cm (15 13/16...
EditorialPair of bronze cymbals, Classical, 5th?4th century B.C., Greek, Peloponnesian, Bronze, Diam.: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Bronzes, Inscribed in Greek, of Kallisthenia. Cymbals were a favorite instrument of the Greeks, especially in religious ceremonies of an e...
EditorialThe Holy Family with Saints Francis and Anne and the Infant Saint John the Baptist, early or mid-1630s, Oil on canvas, 69 1/2 x 82 1/2 in. (176.5 x 209.6 cm), Paintings, Peter Paul Rubens (Flemish, Siegen 1577?1640 Antwerp), An ecstatic Saint Francis a...
EditorialFigure 24: Extreme pain to the point of exhaustion, the head of Christ and memory of love or ecstatic gaze., 1854?56, printed 1862, Albumen silver print from glass negative, Image (Oval): 28.3 ? 20.3 cm (11 1/8 ? 8 in.), Photographs, Guillaume-Benjamin...
EditorialPair of bronze cymbals, Classical, 5th?4th century B.C., Greek, Peloponnesian, Bronze, Diam.: 3 7/8 in. (9.8 cm), Bronzes, Inscribed in Greek, of Kallisthenia. Cymbals were a favorite instrument of the Greeks, especially in religious ceremonies of an e...
EditorialManjuvajra and Vidyadhara in Ecstatic Embrace (Yab-Yum), ca. 17th?18th century, Tibet, Gilt bronze inlaid with turquoise and carnelian, H. 8 1/4 in. (21 cm); W. 6 1/2 in. (16.5 cm0, Sculpture, Manjuvajra is an esoteric form of Manjushri, the Bodhisattv...
EditorialTerracotta statuette of a dancing youth, Early Hellenistic, 3rd century B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta; mold-made and hand-made, H. 7 1/4 in. (18.4 cm), Terracottas, This statuette belongs to a series of 'Phrygian dancers' that is associated with the cult o...