EditorialBronze statuette of a man, Classical, 3rd quarter of the 5th century B.C. or later, Greek, Bronze, 10 1/2 ? 3 ? 2 13/16 in. (26.7 ? 7.6 ? 7.2 cm), Bronzes, In its original condition, this will have been a fine, small figure of a man. While the legs are...
EditorialEmperor Nero at the banquets of Tigellinus. He escapes an amphitheater wearing a bear skin and attacks the genitals of men and women bound to stakes. Neron sort de la grotte de lampitheatre couvert dune peau dours. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Fra...
EditorialPoster for the first exhibition of the " Secession", the new artists' group which seceded from the group of Kuenstlerhaus-artists in 1897. This first print-run of the poster was censored and the second version had some trees cover Theseus' ge...
EditorialTwo Knives, Francesco Salviati, Italian, 1510 1563, Aegidius Sadeler II, Flemish, 1570 - 1629, Cherubino Alberti, Italian, 15531615, Engraving on off-white laid paper, Both knives with heavily ornamented handles. At left, carving knife with hook-tipped...
EditorialCentaur, Gift from Gertrud Benndorf (Hamburg), Clay, hand-modeled, Clay, hand-modeled, Total: Height: 8.8 cm; Width: 5.5 cm; Depth: 8.2 cm, Ceramics, Small sculptures/small sculptures, Centaurs, late archaic, Greek antiquity, The centaur stands on the ...
EditorialArtist: Theodore van Thulden, Flemish, 16061669, After: Francesco Primaticcio, Italian, 15041570, Ulysses receives the Homage of the Loyal?Serving-Women, ca.?1632, Black chalk, Sheet: 17.8 ? 30.5 cm (7 ? 12in.); Framed: 39.37 ? 52.07 cm (15 1/2 ? 20?1/...
EditorialProvincial-Roman-sitting jackal-like dog of baked clay. Broken a bit, including along vertical joint line through body, and glued. The flat antique pedestal of clay is missing. Top of left ear is gone too. Missing pieces on the back and on the left hin...
EditorialHermes Logios (Hermes Orator). Roman copy from 1st-2nd century CE after Greek original, 5th century BC. Statue. Marble. Detail of the genitals. Altemps Palace. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.
EditorialEmperor Nero at the banquets of Tigellinus. He escapes an amphitheater wearing a bear skin and attacks the genitals of men and women bound to stakes. Neron sort de la grotte de lampitheatre couvert dune peau dours. Copperplate engraving from Pierre-Fra...
Editorial18-cm Shell in Wooden Box, A half-pointed 18 cm grenade sawn in half, in a wooden box. The grenade is 51.5 cm long and has a caliber of 176 mm. It has two rings of pressed-in cams for a drawn barrel with three pulling fields and is hollow, a tube hole ...
EditorialArum American colocasiae leaf stained brown genitals, Caladium bicolor, signed: P.S. (sculp.), Fig. 20, p. 20, p. 67, Sluyter, P. (sc.), 1706, Caspari Commelin ... Horti Medici ... plantae rariores et exoticae. Lugduni Batavorum: apud Federicum Haringh...
EditorialSculpture in the Jardin des Tuileries, depicting a woman with a Paris mask. Jardin des Tuileries, la femme au masque (title on object), sculpture, nude with covered genitals - AA - female human figure, mask, Neue Photographische Gesellschaft (mentioned...
EditorialBronze statuette of a man, Classical, 3rd quarter of the 5th century B.C. or later, Greek, Bronze, 10 1/2 ? 3 ? 2 13/16 in. (26.7 ? 7.6 ? 7.2 cm), Bronzes, In its original condition, this will have been a fine, small figure of a man. While the legs are...
EditorialSculpture of Pierre Julien at the Mus?e du Louvre in Paris, representing a dying gladiator Paris: Louvre: Gladiator mourant, the Julien (title on object), dying, nude with covered genitals, permanent exhibition, museum, sculpture, Neue Photographische ...
EditorialHermes Logios (Hermes Orator). Roman copy from 1st-2nd century CE after Greek original, 5th century BC. Statue. Marble. Detail of the genitals. Altemps Palace. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.
EditorialAnatomical drawing. The circulatory system. Torso, male genitals, thighs, arm. Planches anatomiques du corps humain execute?es d’apre?s les dimensions naturelles. Paris France 1826. Anatomical print of the human body with natural dimensions. The ci...
EditorialAnatomical drawing. The circulatory system. Torso, male genitals, thighs, arm. Planches anatomiques du corps humain execute?es d’apre?s les dimensions naturelles. Paris France 1826. Anatomical print of the human body with natural dimensions. The ci...
EditorialIvory cup, covered, probably a salt cellar. African work, Portuguese influence. From Sherbro, Sierra Leone. On the cover a series of crocodiles eating the genitals of male figures. One the base four males, four females, the men Portuguese (hats!) H: 23...
EditorialBronze statuette of a man, Classical, 3rd quarter of the 5th century B.C. or later, Greek, Bronze, 10 1/2 ? 3 ? 2 13/16 in. (26.7 ? 7.6 ? 7.2 cm), Bronzes, In its original condition, this will have been a fine, small figure of a man. While the legs are...
EditorialHermes Logios (Hermes Orator). Roman copy from 1st-2nd century CE after Greek original, 5th century BC. Statue. Marble. Detail of the genitals. Altemps Palace. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.
EditorialBronze statuette of a man, Classical, 3rd quarter of the 5th century B.C. or later, Greek, Bronze, 10 1/2 ? 3 ? 2 13/16 in. (26.7 ? 7.6 ? 7.2 cm), Bronzes, In its original condition, this will have been a fine, small figure of a man. While the legs are...
EditorialHermes Logios (Hermes Orator). Roman copy from 1st-2nd century CE after Greek original, 5th century BC. Statue. Marble. Detail of the genitals. Altemps Palace. National Roman Museum. Rome. Italy.
EditorialAnthropomorphic figurine, clay hermaphrodite showing male and female genitals (breasts and phallus). Settlement tumulus; Late Neolithic (Karanovo III-IV). From Kapitan Dimitrievo, Bulgaria. Height: 7,3cm.
EditorialPoster for the first exhibition of the " Secession", the new artists' group which seceded from the group of Kuenstlerhaus-artists in 1897. This first print-run of the poster was censored and the second version had some trees cover Theseus' ge...
EditorialIvory cup, covered, probably a salt cellar. African work, Portuguese influence. From Sherbro, Sierra Leone. On the cover a series of crocodiles eating the genitals of male figures. One the base four males, four females, the men Portuguese (hats!) H: 23...
EditorialIvory cosmetic box in the shape of a fish, Canaanite, from Tell es-Sa'idiyeh, Jordan, 13th century BC. This ivory fish-shaped cosmetic box was found inside a bronze bowl which had been strapped, using Egyptian linen, to the genitals of a body found in ...
EditorialThe " ram in a thicket" from Ur, southern Iraq, is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonard Woolley in the " Great Death Pit", one of the Royal Graves in the cemetery at Ur. The " ram" is rather a goat and he ...