EditorialTerracotta vase in the form of a sleeping African (known as Ethiopian) boy, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd?2nd century B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta, H. 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm), Vases, The sleeping boy's nakedness and exhausted state suggest that he is a slave or serva...
EditorialThe Fall and the Expulsion. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. [Whole folio] Upper part of drawing. A winged sepent, with a maiden's head, guides Eve's hand, holding an apple to her mouth; Adam eats the apple. Below, they leave the e...
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...
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...
EditorialDomitian . Was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.The emperor Domitian (81-96 AD) as prince in heroic nakedness. 70/80 AD. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.
EditorialDomitian . Was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.The emperor Domitian (81-96 AD) as prince in heroic nakedness. 70/80 AD. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.
EditorialExpulsion from Paradise, The angel drives Adam and Eve out of paradise with his sword. God handed Adam and Eve clothes of animal skins to cover their nakedness. In the margins of the frame a Bible quote from Gen. in Latin. The print is part of an album...
EditorialThe fig leaf hiding nakedness, Parallel title: The fig leaf a hedge in front of the paw, Signed: H. Sperling sculp, Copper engraving, Plate XXIX (Vol. 1), F?ssli, Johann Melchior; Sperling, Hieronymus (sculp.), 1731, Johann Jakob Scheuchzer: Kupfer-Bib...
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...
EditorialShem Covering the Nakedness of Noah (recto) and Lot with his Daughters (verso) from Der Teutsch Cicero, plate four of Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Hans Leonhard Sch?uffelein (German, 1480/90-1538/40); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1...
EditorialShem Covering the Nakedness of Noah (recto) and Lot with his Daughters (verso) from Der Teutsch Cicero, plate four of Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Hans Leonhard Sch?uffelein (German, 1480/90-1538/40); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1...
EditorialAfter the Fall: Adam and Eve discovering their nakedness. From the mosaic floor of the Cathedral of Otranto, southern Italy. The cathedral was built under Roger, Norman Duke of Apulia, and consecrated in 1088. The mosaic floor of was completed in 1166....
EditorialShem Covering the Nakedness of Noah (recto) and Lot with his Daughters (verso) from Der Teutsch Cicero, plate four of Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Hans Leonhard Sch?uffelein (German, 1480/90-1538/40); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1...
EditorialShem Covering the Nakedness of Noah (recto) and Lot with his Daughters (verso) from Der Teutsch Cicero, plate four of Woodcuts from Books of the XVI Century. Hans Leonhard Sch?uffelein (German, 1480/90-1538/40); assembled by Max Geisberg (Swiss, 1875-1...
EditorialAdam and Eve. Old English Illustrated Hexateuch. England [Canterbury]; second quarter of 11th centu. [Whole folio] Gensis 3, 7-24. Upper scene; Adam and Eve cover their nakedness from God. Below; God expels Adam and Eve from Paradise; right, Adam, acco...
EditorialThe Fall and the Expulsion. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. [Whole folio] Upper part of drawing. A winged sepent, with a maiden's head, guides Eve's hand, holding an apple to her mouth; Adam eats the apple. Below, they leave the e...
EditorialHam seeing the nakedness of the drunken Noah; Shem covers Noah; Noah curses Canaan; the ancestry of Nimrod . Egerton Genesis Picture Book. England, S.E. or N. (Norwich or Durham?); 3rd quarter of the 14th century. Source: Egerton 1894, f.4v. Language: ...
EditorialDrunkeness of Noah. Holkham Bible Picture Book. England, circa 1320-1330. [Whole folio] Upper drawing; Noah stands in a vat pressing grapes, while his three sons carry grapes in wicker hods. Below, Noah lies drunken with empty cup, beside two large cas...
EditorialTerracotta vase in the form of a sleeping African (known as Ethiopian) boy, Hellenistic, ca. 3rd?2nd century B.C., Cypriot, Terracotta, H. 8 3/16 in. (20.8 cm), Vases, The sleeping boy's nakedness and exhausted state suggest that he is a slave or serva...
EditorialGod Judging Adam, ca. 1795, Relief etching, printed in color and finished with pen and ink and watercolor, sheet: 16 3/4 x 20 3/4in. (42.5 x 52.7cm), Prints, William Blake (British, London 1757?1827 London), A nude and aged Adam, newly aware of his own...
EditorialDomitian . Was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.The emperor Domitian (81-96 AD) as prince in heroic nakedness. 70/80 AD. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.
EditorialAfter the Fall: Adam and Eve discovering their nakedness. From the mosaic floor of the Cathedral of Otranto, southern Italy. The cathedral was built under Roger, Norman Duke of Apulia, and consecrated in 1088. The mosaic floor of was completed in 1166....
EditorialCast silver statuetter from the Oxus Treasure, Achaemenid Persian, from Tadjikistan, 5th-4th BCE. The figure wears a Persian head dress, but his nakedness shows Greek influence. The Oxus Treasure, the most important collection of gold and silver to hav...