EditorialBoiler hat, Helmet, boiler hat, iron, black. The helmet is composed of one part with a narrow comb on top. The helmet has a high spherical top and a wide flap that is slightly bent at the front. Two horizontal viewing holes are visible in the valve. Du...
EditorialDecay of the Spanish fleet at Cape Finistere and conquest of Gulik by Prince Maurits, Silver Medal. Front: wrecking of ships within the scope. Reverse: floor plan of besieged fortress (Gulik) within an inscription, Finisterre, Cabo de, J?lich, Gulik, M...
EditorialTitle page for The Field Songs of Thyrsis, by Willem Mylius, Leiden, 1705 The Field Songs of Thyrsis (title on object), Two satyrs and putti open a stage curtain behind which a landscape with mountains and a river can be seen. From the air, the blindfo...
EditorialKostverloren Castle in Decay. Rembrandt van Rijn; Dutch, 1606-1669. Date: 1652-1657. Dimensions: 109 x 175 mm. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper. Origin: Holland.
EditorialChamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil, 10th?11th century, India, Sandstone, H. 44 1/2 in. (113 cm), Sculpture, This is a fragment of a full-length sculpture portraying the ferocious Hindu goddess Kali in the form of Chamunda, an epithet derived from...
EditorialTree, 1935, Watercolor, tempera, and ink on paper, 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm), Drawings, Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880?1946 Huntington, New York), In 1930, Dove began to work regularly in watercolor, becoming as skillful and prolifi...
EditorialPond and Derelict Dwelling on the, A slightly incongruous scene with a manicured lawn standing in front of what seems to be a large farmstead in an advanced state of decay, UK, art, art Britain, Artist: Sarah Smith.
EditorialThe beginning, continvance, and decay of estates: vvherein are handled many notable questions concerning the establishment of empires and monarchies : Lucinge, Ren? de, sieur des Alymes, 1553-ca. 1615.
EditorialKostverloren Castle in Decay. Rembrandt van Rijn; Dutch, 1606-1669. Date: 1652-1657. Dimensions: 109 x 175 mm. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper. Origin: Holland.
EditorialKostverloren Castle in Decay. Rembrandt van Rijn; Dutch, 1606-1669. Date: 1652-1657. Dimensions: 109 x 175 mm. Pen and brown ink, with brush and brown wash, heightened with touches of white gouache, on cream laid paper. Origin: Holland.
EditorialWood-decay fungus, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum gausapatum (Stereum spadiceum), Peniophora quercina (Corticium quercinum) and cauliflower fungus, Sparassis crispa. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to ...
Editorial'Contrasted royal chapels': Chapel Royal Brighton. St.George's chapel, Windsor. Contrasts: or, a parallel between the noble edifices of the Middle Ages, and corresponding buildings of the present day; shewing the present decay of taste. Accompanied by ...
EditorialIllustration of British gothic cathedrals. Contrasted style of two large buildings. Architecture and religious buildings. . Contrasts, or a parallel between the noble edifices of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and similar buildings of the prese...
EditorialChamunda, the Horrific Destroyer of Evil, 10th?11th century, India, Sandstone, H. 44 1/2 in. (113 cm), Sculpture, This is a fragment of a full-length sculpture portraying the ferocious Hindu goddess Kali in the form of Chamunda, an epithet derived from...
EditorialFinding the bodies of Saints Peter and Paul, ca. 1647?51, Etching, sheet: 11 13/16 x 8 1/16 in. (30 x 20.5 cm), Prints, Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione (Il Grechetto) (Italian, Genoa 1609?1664 Mantua), Castiglione is regarded as one of the most innovati...
EditorialTree, 1935, Watercolor, tempera, and ink on paper, 5 x 7 in. (12.7 x 17.8 cm), Drawings, Arthur Dove (American, Canandaigua, New York 1880?1946 Huntington, New York), In 1930, Dove began to work regularly in watercolor, becoming as skillful and prolifi...
EditorialWood-decay fungus, Stereum hirsutum, Stereum gausapatum (Stereum spadiceum), Peniophora quercina (Corticium quercinum) and cauliflower fungus, Sparassis crispa. Chromolithograph by Lassus after an illustration by A. Bessin from Leon Rolland's Guide to ...
EditorialAllegory of the decay of appreciation for the arts and sciences. A horde asses destroyed the attributes of the liberal arts in an art room. A donkey rips with his beak a drawing in half. Another one bites a recorder, a third trampled a globe. Right To ...
EditorialPond and Derelict Dwelling on the, A slightly incongruous scene with a manicured lawn standing in front of what seems to be a large farmstead in an advanced state of decay, UK, art, art Britain, Artist: Sarah Smith.
EditorialScott's Run, West Virginia. Worked out coal mine near Pursglove mine No. 4 camp - Scene taken from main highway. This scene is typical of a dozen or more mines that have been closed and left to decay in the community. Note trees killed by mine operatio...
EditorialHow many centuries of change and chance Those gnarled gray trunks have sentineled, calm and still, Above the pool where slanting sunbeams glance, And the grave heron wets his tawny bill! How many more will pass, with all they bear Of human toil, of str...
EditorialA male head, so called " reserve-head", from a tomb near Giza, Egypt. When the art of embalming was not yet far advanced, such sculpted heads were laid in the tomb in case the mummy's head was damaged by decay. Limestone, around 2.450 BCE, 4t...