EditorialMadonna and Child with Saints, Oil on wood, 32 1/2 x 50 in. (82.6 x 127 cm), Paintings, Bonifacio de' Pitati (Bonifacio Veronese) (Italian, Verona 1487?1553 Venice), A contemporary of Titian and Palma il Vecchio, Bonifacio Veronese acquired a considera...
EditorialYoung Woman Knitting, ca. 1883, Oil on canvas, 19 3/4 x 23 5/8 in. (50.2 x 60 cm), Paintings, Berthe Morisot (French, Bourges 1841?1895 Paris), Morisot, who exhibited with the Impressionists between 1874 and 1886, painted a number of figures out-of-doo...
EditorialHead of an Old Woman, after 1610, Oil on canvas, 20 7/8 x 15 3/8 in. (53 x 39 cm), Paintings, Orazio Borgianni (Italian, Rome 1578?1616 Rome), Among the most modern seeming pictures of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are informal studies of he...
EditorialNight cap, 1600?1620, British, Linen worked with silk and metal threads, spangles; chain, stem, darning, detached buttonhole, and plaited braid stitches, H. 8 x W. 7 3/4 inches (20.3 x 19.7 cm), Textiles-Embroidered, Roses, thistles and eglantines, but...
Editorial?? ??? ???? ??????, On the Seventeenth Day, 13th century rubbing of a 4th century text, China, Album of thirty leaves; ink on paper, Each leaf: 9 5/8 x 5 in. (24.4 x 12.7 cm), Rubbing, Most personal correspondence was written in an informal form of cle...
EditorialThe Hombourg waltz, with characteristic sketches of family dancing, Knahskiurc, fect., London : Published May 4, 1818 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., nephew & successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey, 1818., Members of the Royal family at an informal...
EditorialThe informal umbrella. A gentleman grabs the hand of a young lady and kisses her, while using his umbrella to prevent her aunt and chaperone from seeing it. Handcoloured engraving from Pierre de la Mesangere's Le Bon Genre, Paris, 1817.
EditorialThe Hombourg waltz, with characteristic sketches of family dancing, Knahskiurc, fect., London : Published May 4, 1818 by G. Humphrey, 27 St. James's St., nephew & successor to the late Mrs. H. Humphrey, 1818., Members of the Royal family at an informal...
EditorialDuring a nine-day state visit to Austria, Nikita Khrushchev paid an informal visit to a farm at Rust, Burgenland, which belongs to two brothers of President of parliament Leopold Figl. Khrushchev is showing Figl just how big a pig he intends to giv...
EditorialMehmet Bueker, agricultural teacher, visits eight Anatolian villages to explain Marshall-Plan tractors, hybrid corn and new techniques to Anatolian farmers. During a wedding in Cekirdeksiz, to which Bueker was invited, "professional entertainers" wer...