EditorialPlate 3: a gale in the forest, two horsemen wrapped in their cloaks, the wind is blowing from the left side, a round composition, from 'Roman landscapes and ruins' (Paysages et ruines de Rome).
EditorialInlay, rosette, Ptolemaic Period?Roman Period, 100 BC?100 AD, From Egypt, Glass, H. 1.1 ? W. 1.1 cm (7/16 ? 7/16 in.), A mosaic glass technique allowed multiples of an image to be created: a figural or design composition was made by bundling colored gl...
EditorialTerracotta conical lekythos (vase for oil), Early Protocorinthian, ca. 700 B.C., Greek, Corinthian, Terracotta, H. 3 5/8 in. (9.2 cm), Vases, The decoration combines birds, fish, horses, and a wolf in an exuberantly dynamic composition. Of particular n...
EditorialRoundel with Descent of the Damned, ca. 1500?1510, Made in Leuven (?), South Netherlands, South Netherlandish, Colorless glass, vitreous paint and silver stain, Overall: 8 9/16 in. (21.7 cm), Glass-Stained, After a composition by workskhop of Dieric Bo...