EditorialThe pastor Jamal Bryant leads a prayer on Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021, outside the Glynn County Courthouse in Brunswick, Ga. (Nicole Craine/The New York Times)
EditorialChiromancy, the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading, or chirology. Egypt, engraving 1879.
EditorialThomas Rowlandson, The Picnic Party, ca. 1800-1827, watercolor on paper, 11 5/8 in. x 18 in. (29.6 cm. x 45.7 cm.), In 'Sense and Sensibility,' Jane Austen (1775--1817) describes preparations for a picnic party in the country. 'The grounds were declare...
EditorialDiptych, 1736, Ukranian, Silver frame (oclaid), partially gilded, Overall: 3 1/16 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (7.8 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm), Metalwork-Silver In Combination, This seventeenth century traveling Diptych is decorated with images of saints which are quiet c...
Editorial"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album.
EditorialJoe Biden accepts the Democratic nomination for President at the Chase Center in Wilmington, Del., Aug. 20, 2020. (Erin Schaff/The New York Times)
EditorialChastity with two putti, fragment from the triumph of chastity about love, The triumphs of Petrarch (series title), Fragment of a tapestry with the triumph of chastity about love. The characterization of the chastity holds a column in the left hand and...
EditorialTerracotta fragment of a male figure, Classical, 4th century B.C., Greek, South Italian, Tarentine, Terracotta, H. 3 1/4 in. (8.26 cm), Terracottas, The characterization of the face and the remains of the garment associate the figure with representatio...
EditorialTerracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 14.5 in. (36.8 cm), Vases, Obverse, warrior and man, Reverse, Nike (the personification of victory) and youth. Individual cha...
Editorial"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album.
Editorial"Four Portraits: (upper left) A Raja (Perhaps Raja Sarang Rao), by Balchand; (upper right) 'Inayat Khan, by Daulat; (lower left) 'Abd al-Khaliq, probably by Balchand; (lower right) Jamal Khan Qaravul, by Murad", Folio from the Shah Jahan Album.
EditorialDiptych, 1736, Ukranian, Silver frame (oclaid), partially gilded, Overall: 3 1/16 x 2 1/8 x 1 1/2 in. (7.8 x 5.4 x 3.8 cm), Metalwork-Silver In Combination, This seventeenth century traveling Diptych is decorated with images of saints which are quiet c...
EditorialTerracotta fragment of a male figure, Classical, 4th century B.C., Greek, South Italian, Tarentine, Terracotta, H. 3 1/4 in. (8.26 cm), Terracottas, The characterization of the face and the remains of the garment associate the figure with representatio...
EditorialLimestone statue of a bearded warrior, Early Hellenistic, late 4th?3rd century B.C., Cypriot, Limestone, Overall: 16 x 8 3/4 x 3 1/2 in. (40.6 x 22.2 x 8.9 cm), Stone Sculpture, The figure is exceptional for the specificity of the characterization . It...
EditorialTerracotta bell-krater (bowl for mixing wine and water), Classical, ca. 460?450 B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta; red-figure, H. 14.5 in. (36.8 cm), Vases, Obverse, warrior and man, Reverse, Nike (the personification of victory) and youth. Individual cha...
EditorialChiromancy, the art of characterization and foretelling the future through the study of the palm, also known as palm reading, or chirology. Egypt, engraving 1879.