EditorialPanel with Horse Heads, 11th century, Made in Egypt, Wood (teak); carved, H. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm), Wood, This panel, probably from a wooden door, is deeply carved with two symmetrical horse heads in relief. Attention to detail is evident in the beaded ...
EditorialLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Italian polymath of the Renaissance. Monument of Leonardo da Vinci by Pietro Magni, 1872. At the foot of the pedestal stand his four favorite students. Reliefs depict some of the disciplines that da Vinci mastered: painti...
EditorialLeonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). Italian polymath of the Renaissance. Monument of Leonardo da Vinci by Pietro Magni, 1872. At the foot of the pedestal stand his four favorite students. Reliefs depict some of the disciplines that da Vinci mastered: painti...
EditorialTwo large vases, left real Chinese K'ang-hsi, right Meissen. The Meissen imitation is from 1722 or 23, and the Saxon painters had not yet completely mastered the technique of under-glaze painting. The blue decor is less firm and intense than in the Chi...
EditorialLe Pont Neuf, ca. 1912?14, Watercolor and gouache on cream wove paper, upper edge torn from notebook, 9 13/16 x 7 1/2 in. (25 x 19 cm), Drawings, Hippolyte Petitjean (French, M?con 1854?1929 Paris), Hippolyte Petitjean mastered to perfection the Neo-Im...
EditorialPanel with Horse Heads, 11th century, Made in Egypt, Wood (teak); carved, H. 13 3/4 in. (34.9 cm), Wood, This panel, probably from a wooden door, is deeply carved with two symmetrical horse heads in relief. Attention to detail is evident in the beaded ...
EditorialAlexander McKellar, the cock of the green teeing up with a number of golf clubs on the grass beside him, 1803. A golf addict, McKellar took up the game late in life, and never mastered it. Copperplate engraving by John Kay from A Series of Original Por...
EditorialTwo large vases, left real Chinese K'ang-hsi, right Meissen. The Meissen imitation is from 1722 or 23, and the Saxon painters had not yet completely mastered the technique of under-glaze painting. The blue decor is less firm and intense than in the Chi...