EditorialGerard Pique dazzles in ?most expensive football jersey ever produced? - a ?5,000 (Euro) crystal-adorned shirt decorated with 30,000 Swarovski stones
EditorialThe center part of the Verdun altar, 27 of 51 plaques in champsleve-technique, enamel on gilded copper. New Testament scenes in the middle row, Old Testament parallels above and below. 1181, for Prior Wernher of the Augustinian canons of Klosterneuburg...
EditorialGemellion depicting the Coronation of Erec, knight of the Round Table. Middle 13th century. Enamelled copper. Limoges. From San Isidoro of Leon, Spain. National Archaeological Museum. Madrid. Spain.
EditorialEagle lectern. Oak wood. Nordwestdeutschland, by the year 1200. In Christian art the eagle is a symbol of John the Apostle, but also of the resurrection and the ascension of Christ. Middle Ages. Romanesque sytle. The German Historical Museum. Berlin. ...
EditorialMiddle Ages. Mantlet. Large shield or portable shelter used for stopping projectiles. Wood mantlet on wheels. Engraving by Serra. Museo Militar, 1883. Later colouration.
EditorialStatue of Egyptian Chancellor Nakhti. Middle Empire. 20th century BC. Polychromed acacia wood. From his tomb in Asyut, Egypt (tomb number 7). Louvre Museum. Paris, France.
EditorialAssembly of male and female scholars gathered around an open book, in the middle ground a man holds aloft an armillary sphere, another group of scholars in the background.
EditorialA peasant woman facing left in profile nurses a baby under a tree at right, a woman, seen from behind, walking next to a donkey in the middle ground, a church and bridge to left in background, from 'Various figures and lands' (Diverse figure e paesi).