EditorialCauldron of the Sorceress. Odilon Redon; French, 1840-1916. Date: 1879. Dimensions: 408 ? 371 mm. Various charcoals, with stumping, erasing, and incising, on pale-pink wove paper with red and blue fibers altered to a golden tone. Origin: France.
EditorialNear the Kingdom of Iolcus, the daughters of Pelias attend the spell of Medea, who from the pieces of an old ram in a cauldron revive an other young. House of the Iron Oven. Pompeii. National Archaeological Museum. Naples. Italy.
EditorialTriptych Miniature altar House altar or travel altar with Mary with child, flanked by Saint Barbara and Catherine, House altar or travel altar made of palm wood with carved representations. Middle part: Mary in halo and mandorla with the Christ child o...
EditorialA Cauldron on a Moonlit Night (Tsukiyo no kama), from the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)". Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Japanese, 1839-1892. Date: 1886. Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.4 cm (14 3/4 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin...
EditorialA Cauldron on a Moonlit Night (Tsukiyo no kama), from the series "One Hundred Aspects of the Moon (Tsuki hyakushi)". Tsukioka Yoshitoshi; Japanese, 1839-1892. Date: 1886. Dimensions: 37.5 x 25.4 cm (14 3/4 x 10 in.). Color woodblock print; oban. Origin...
EditorialCandlestick with foot in lobe style, Foot, stem, fat trap and pin are cast separately. The triangular lobe-style base is made up of three S-volutes, which are connected by three cartouches, and which bear the triangular base for the trunk. This consist...
EditorialThe Witches' Cauldron or Incantation. John Dixon (English, born Ireland, 1720/30-1804); after John Hamilton Mortimer (English, 1740-1779). Date: 1772. Dimensions: 610 ? 485 mm (image/plate); 669 ? 515 mm (sheet). Mezzotint with touches of engraving in ...
EditorialThe Olympic cauldron burns at the end of the opening ceremony at the 2022 Beijing Olympics in Beijing on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. (Gabriela BhaskarThe New York Times)
EditorialThe Olympic cauldron burns at the end of the opening ceremony at the 2022 Beijing Olympics in Beijing on Friday, Feb. 4, 2022. (James Hill /The New York Times)
EditorialMedieval games: boy diving for apples on a bench while another boy threatens to upend the bench and dunk the boy in the tub (top), a man guiding a blindfolded man with a club to strike a cauldron (middle), and the King of the Bean, a fake royal process...
EditorialTriptych Miniature altar House altar or travel altar with Mary with child, flanked by Saint Barbara and Catherine, House altar or travel altar made of palm wood with carved representations. Middle part: Mary in halo and mandorla with the Christ child o...
EditorialBronze statuette of a satyr reclining on a lion's skin, Late Archaic, early 5th century B.C., Etruscan, Bronze, Other: 2 1/8 in. (5.4 cm), Bronzes, The lion's skin, which is usually associated with Herakles, introduces a light touch, suggesting that th...
EditorialCopper Cauldron. Dated: 1937. Dimensions: overall: 35.6 x 26.7 cm (14 x 10 1/2 in.) Original IAD Object: 21 1/4"high; max. diam. 16 1/4"; diam. at mouth: 11". Medium: watercolor, colored pencil, and graphite on paper.