Editorial[Whole folio] Calendar page for May. Tending sheep. Two shepherds with their flock, one holding a crook, and three seated figures. At foot, Aries in a roundel. Anglo-Saxon Calendar. England [Winchester?]; second quarter of 11th century. Source: Cotton ...
EditorialKantharos (A, B: two mythical creatures), Clay, Clay, Total: Height: 25 cm; Diameter: 15,5 cm, Ceramics, Horse, Fabulous animals (hoofed animals), Aries (animal), Animals as ornament, Palmette (ornament), Antiquity, While the form and also the theme of...
EditorialIllustration of the constellation Aries, by an Anglo-Saxon artist in the style of the Winchester school. Aratus. France [Fleury?]; late 10th century. Source: Harley 2506, f.36. Language: Latin.
EditorialRoman siege engines: shelter for sappers digging a tunnel, Vineae 1, semi-circular shelter Pluteus 2, shelter Testudo with battering ram Aries 3, shelter on rolling cylinders Musculus 4, siege tower or the Taker of Cities, Helepolis 5, five-storey towe...
EditorialDe Sphaera (The Sphere). Astrological book of Lombard origin. Illustrated by Cristoforo de Predis (1440-1486), 1470. Representation of Mars with the zodiac signs of Aries and Scorpio, Giuseppe Campori Exhibition Hall. Estense Library. Modena. Italy.
EditorialWild goat, Capra aegagrus, and mouflon of Corsica, Ovis aries orientalis. Handcoloured copperplate stipple engraving from Frederic Cuvier's "Dictionary of Natural Science: Mammals," Paris, France, 1816. Illustration by J. G. Pretre, engraved by Carnonk...
EditorialDesign for a Ceiling: Mars and Aries, 1700s. Italy, 18th century. Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash and watercolor, with gouache, over traces of graphite; framing lines in brown ink; sheet: 24.9 x 24.7 cm (9 13/16 x 9 3/4 in.); secondary suppo...
EditorialArtillery: Aries or wooden battering ram and catapult used by Lord Heathfield at the siege of Gibraltar. Copperplate engraving by Wilson Lowry from Abraham Rees' Cyclopedia or Universal Dictionary of Arts, Sciences and Literature, Longman, Hurst, Rees,...
EditorialMale and female sheep, Ovis aries, and male and female goat, Capra aegagrus hircus. Handcoloured engraving on steel by Beyer after a drawing by Janet Lange from Richard's "New Edition of the Complete Works of Buffon," Pourrat Freres, Paris, 1837.
EditorialDesign for a Painted Porcelain Plate, Le B?lier (Aries) from Le Zodiaque Travesti (The Farcical Zodiac) Service, Jean Charles Develly, French, 1783 - 1849, Pen and brown ink, brush and brown, black wash, white gouache, pink, tan watercolor, red crayon,...
EditorialKantharos (A, B: two mythical creatures), Clay, Clay, Total: Height: 25 cm; Diameter: 15,5 cm, Ceramics, Horse, Fabulous animals (hoofed animals), Aries (animal), Animals as ornament, Palmette (ornament), Antiquity, While the form and also the theme of...