EditorialDish depicting Phaethon Challenged by Epaphus Dish with the match between Ephasus and Faeton (after Ovid's Metamorphoses), Plate of multi-colored majolica with the match between Epaphus and Phaeton. There are frightened people in a landscape. Phaethon ...
EditorialApollon et Marsyas - Apollo and Marsyas,1495 The silenus or satyr Marsyas, convinced of his own talent, challenged the god Apollo to a musical contest and was skinned alive when he lost. Detail of flock of birds. For overall view please see 40-07-01/...
EditorialHanging Marsyas. Roman sculpture after original of about 200 BC. The satyr was hung from a tree at Apollo's command and skinned alive, as he had challenged the god in a musical contest, and was defeated. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.
EditorialThe punishment (martyrdom) of Marsyas who challenged Apollo in fluteplaying. Mardyas won, but was skinned. Marble figure (1st-3rd CE). Roman copy of a Greek original of the 2nd BCE Height 256 cm-MA 542.
EditorialHanging Marsyas. Roman sculpture after original of about 200 BC. The satyr was hung from a tree at Apollo's command and skinned alive, as he had challenged the god in a musical contest, and was defeated. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.
EditorialCypresses, 1889, Oil on canvas, 36 3/4 x 29 1/8 in. (93.4 x 74 cm), Paintings, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853?1890 Auvers-sur-Oise), Cypresses was painted in late June 1889, shortly after Van Gogh began his yearlong stay at the asylum in Saint-R...
EditorialBrooch containing a coin of Emperor Philip I., Roman, mid-3rd century CE. Philip, known as " Philip the Arab", was born in sough-west Syria and rose through the ranks of the army until, in 243, he challenged and defeated the Roman empror, Gor...
EditorialThe punishment (martyrdom) of Marsyas who challenged Apollo in fluteplaying. Mardyas won, but was skinned. Marble figure (1st-3rd CE). Roman copy of a Greek original of the 2nd BCE Height 256 cm-MA 542.
Editorialle duel victorieux de Surcouf avec douze officiers Prussiens. After a drawing by Frederic Regamey. Robert Surcouf (12 December 1773 – 8 July 1827) was a famous French privateer and slave trader who operated in the Indian Ocean between 1789 and 1801, ...
EditorialPageant XIV. At Verona, Richard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, has been challenged to perform certain feats of arms by Sir Pandolph(Pandolf) Malatete (Malatesta) , or Malet. Their broken lances lie upon the ground. They duel with pole axes, and Beauchamp...
EditorialRichard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, visiting Lombardy, where he is challenged to a joust by Pandolfo Malatesta, a condottiere. . Beauchamp pageants. S. Netherlands [Bruges?]; after 1483. Source: Cotton Julius E. IV art.6 f.7.
EditorialThe punishment (martyrdom) of Marsyas who challenged Apollo in fluteplaying. Mardyas won, but was skinned. Marble figure (1st-3rd CE). Roman copy of a Greek original of the 2nd BCE Height 256 cm-MA 542.
EditorialApollon et Marsyas - Apollo and Marsyas,1495 The silenus or satyr Marsyas, convinced of his own talent, challenged the god Apollo to a musical contest and was skinned alive when he lost. Detail of flock of birds. For overall view please see 40-07-01/...
EditorialCypresses, 1889, Oil on canvas, 36 3/4 x 29 1/8 in. (93.4 x 74 cm), Paintings, Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, Zundert 1853?1890 Auvers-sur-Oise), Cypresses was painted in late June 1889, shortly after Van Gogh began his yearlong stay at the asylum in Saint-R...
EditorialBowl with Bahram Gur and Azada, late 12th?early 13th century, Attributed to Iran, probably Kashan, Stonepaste; glazed (opaque monochrome), in-glaze- and overglaze-painted, gilded, H. 3 7/16 in. (8.7 cm), Ceramics, Bahram Gur, challenged by his concubin...
EditorialHanging Marsyas. Roman sculpture after original of about 200 BC. The satyr was hung from a tree at Apollo's command and skinned alive, as he had challenged the god in a musical contest, and was defeated. Glyptothek. Munich. Germany.
EditorialBrooch containing a coin of Emperor Philip I., Roman, mid-3rd century CE. Philip, known as " Philip the Arab", was born in sough-west Syria and rose through the ranks of the army until, in 243, he challenged and defeated the Roman empror, Gor...
EditorialThe punishment (martyrdom) of Marsyas who challenged Apollo in fluteplaying. Mardyas won, but was skinned. Marble figure (1st-3rd CE). Roman copy of a Greek original of the 2nd BCE Height 256 cm-MA 542.