EditorialLower strap, silver, partly gold-plated. The lower strap consists of two parts, each built up of S-shaped links and closed by straight spacers. The spacers decorated with angels and flowers. The parts are interrupted by an oval bracket made of lobster,...
EditorialThe sphinx, a mythical animal with the body of a lion and the head of a pharaoh. The monument is partly hewn out of a natural knoll, and partly built up. It belongs to the pyramid of Pharaoh Chefren. 26th BCE, 4th Dynasty, Old Kingdom, Egypt.
EditorialThe sphinx, a mythical animal with the body of a lion and the head of a man. The monument is partly sculpted out of a natural knoll, and partly built up. (26th BCE), 4th Dynasty, Old Kinghdom, Egypt. It stands in front of the pyramid of Pharaoh Chefren.
EditorialUkrainians Volodymyr Kotsyuba, left, and Vitali Slobodianiuk, both traveling back to their country to join the fighting, on a train from Prague to Przemysl in Poland, March 8, 2022. (Emile Ducke/The New York Times)
EditorialFolding fan, consisting of a frame of ajour and embossed ivory painted with watercolor and a leather leaf, on which gouache painted a forest and river landscape with three nymphs on the back and a house hidden between a forestage, on which gouache pain...
EditorialThe renowned astronomer Giovanni Domenico Cassini was lured to France by Louis XIV, and the first scientific map of the moon was produced in Paris. From observations through a telescope in the 1670s he built up a completely recognisable picture of the ...
EditorialSolar and wind power company Iberdrola?s East Anglia One wind turbine project off the coast of England, in the North Sea, May 9, 2020. (Suzie Howell/The New York Times)
EditorialDesign for a Hall Lamp, ca. 1800?1810 , watercolor and gouache, Sheet: 12 5/16 ? 15 11/16 in. (31.2 ? 39.8 cm), Lamqua (Chinese, 19th century), Design for a hall lamp in the shape of a Chinese palace lantern. The hexagonal body of the lantern is built ...