EditorialThe Girl and the Headmaster, 1873, interior; at home; young and old; chair; sitting, listening; alert; all ears; aware; interested; mindful; observant; regardful; studious; watchful.
EditorialSītā had been aware of Hanumān’s plight and prayed to the god of Fire not to allow him to suffer. Hanumān too had repented of his rashness in setting fire to the entire city in case it had harmed Sītā, but had realised that her innocence would ...
EditorialAt the top on the right, Bharata and ?atrughna greet Kaikeyī, who takes them on her lap, and they converse about recent happenings. Bharata falls fainting when he hears about his father’s death and what his mother has done to secure his succession....
EditorialApelles and Campaste. Aware that Apelles was wasting away with love Alexander gave him Campeste and above the first art deal ever now was struck girlfriend against sculpture, oh what luck! (From Art and the Antique, a poetic essay by M. Cav?), plate 36...
EditorialSītā had been aware of Hanumān’s plight and prayed to the god of Fire not to allow him to suffer. Hanumān too had repented of his rashness in setting fire to the entire city in case it had harmed Sītā, but had realised that her innocence would ...
EditorialThomas Cromwell (d. 1540) was Henry VIII’s chief minister, responsible for enforcing the King’s religious settlement and for prosecuting those who opposed it. To help with his day-to-day work, Cromwell drew up lists, or ‘remembrances’, of point...
EditorialAt the top on the right, Bharata and ?atrughna greet Kaikeyī, who takes them on her lap, and they converse about recent happenings. Bharata falls fainting when he hears about his father’s death and what his mother has done to secure his succession....
EditorialMaharaja Sardar Singh of Bikaner, ca. 1860?70, India (Rajasthan, Bikaner), Opaque watercolor, ink, and gold on paper, 16 x 12 in. (40.6 x 30.5 cm), Paintings, Chotu, Maharaja Sardar Singh (r. 1851?72) is captured here in an extraordinary portrait whose...
Editorial? ?? ????? ?, Recluse Fishing by Autumn Trees, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), dated 1350, China, Hanging scroll; ink on paper, Image: 40 3/8 x 13 1/8 in. (102.6 x 33.3 cm), Paintings, Sheng Mou (Chinese, active ca. 1310?1360), Sheng Mou's career as a succes...
Editorial??????? ???????, ?Hanamurasaki of the Tamaya,? from the series Seven Komachi of the Pleasure Quarters (Seiro Nana Komachi), Edo period (1615?1868), ca. 1790, Japan, Polychrome woodblock print; ink and color on paper, H. 14 1/2 in. (36.8 cm); W. 9 7/8 i...
Editorial[Self-Portrait with Christine and Yvonne Lerolle], probably 1895?96, Gelatin silver print, Image: 37.1 x 29.3 cm (14 5/8 x 11 9/16 in.), Photographs, Edgar Degas (French, Paris 1834?1917 Paris), While Degas was aware of photography from the beginning o...
EditorialSerpentine intaglio: Radiate lion-headed god, Imperial, ca. 2nd?3rd century A.D., Roman, Serpentine, Other: 1 x 1 1/4 in. (2.5 x 3.2 cm), Gems, Radiate lion-headed god.. [Group label], The use of spells, potions, fortune-telling, and other sorts of mag...
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...
EditorialThe Girl and the Headmaster, 1873, interior; at home; young and old; chair; sitting, listening; alert; all ears; aware; interested; mindful; observant; regardful; studious; watchful.
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...