EditorialFrontispiece and title page of 'The canting academy; or Villanies discovered'. The canting academy; or Villanies discovered. Wherein is shewn the mysterious and villanous practices of that wicked crew, commonly known by the names of hectors, trapanners...
EditorialPapal conclave following the death of Pope Alessandro VII, with an iconographic map of Vatican City and scenes of the funeral, procession, and election of the new pope.
EditorialMme Vuillard Sewing by the Window, rue Truffaut, ca. 1899, Oil on cardboard laid down on panel., 19 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. (49.5 x 52.7 cm), Paintings, ?douard Vuillard (French, Cuiseaux 1868?1940 La Baule), An artist of quiet interiors and mysterious, solit...
EditorialEnoch, 1806?7, Modified lithograph printed in relief from a stone; one state, Image: 8 1/2 ? 12 3/16 in. (21.6 ? 30.9 cm), Prints, William Blake (British, London 1757?1827 London), Blake?s only lithograph celebrates artistic creativity as springing fro...
EditorialAuti Te Pape, 1893?94, Woodcut printed in color on wove paper, 8 1/8 x 14 1/8 in. (20.6 x 35.9 cm): block, Prints, Paul Gauguin (French, Paris 1848?1903 Atuona, Hiva Oa, Marquesas Islands), Gauguin began working on the text and illustrations for Noa No...
Editorial?, ??, ?????, ?, The Sixteen Luohans, Ming dynasty (1368?1644), dated 1591, China, Handscroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 12 5/8 x 163 9/16 in. (32.1 x 415.4 cm), Paintings, Wu Bin (active ca. 1583?1626), In the Chinese popular imagination, mendica...
EditorialEGYPTIAN ART. Relief with god Amon " the mysterious", helmet covered with two large feathers and beard. Behind him RA, higher solar god represented with a falcon's head, cow horns and solar disk. FIRST COURTYARD OF RAMSES II. TEMPLE OF LUXOR. Dynasty X...
EditorialSecretary General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjoeld,1951. Hammarskjoeld died in a mysterious plane crash on a flight to Katanga,Congo, in 1961.
EditorialScore of Mozart's " Requiem". A mysterious messenger asked Mozart to write a requiem for an anonymous client (Franz Count Walsegg zu Stuppach). See also 25-01-01 / 35,25-01-03 / 24.
EditorialPetra was the capital and royal city of the Nabataeans, a semi-nomadic, Arab people who dominated the silk-and spice trade across the deserts. The " Treasury", its use and significance as mysterious as that of all buildings in Petra.