EditorialGold belt buckle fom the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, early 7th century. It is hollow and made in two parts joined by a hinge. The master-craftsman who made it devised a locking system involving a complex system of sliders and internal rods whic...
EditorialAn attraction based on Nottingham’s centuries-old network of artificial caves had its entrance in the Broadmouth shopping mall, which is being demolished. (Mary Turner/The New York Times)
EditorialPablo Picasso / "Raphael and the Fornarina, XI: the Pope, gaping in his seat", 1968, Engraving (etching on copper matrix, thrown on paper), 28.5 x 35 cm, MPB 111.943.
EditorialFlowers on a Weave, Mulberry paper (kozo washi) treated with fermented persimmon tannin (kakishibu), and silk threads (itoire), Seen here are summer flowers and buds strewed among a the tatami mat. This damaged stencil contains torn silk threads and ga...
EditorialCachepot with Flower Motif and Animal Mask Handles, faience, On spreading foot an inverted bell-shaped, gadrooned body with six-lobed edge. Sides decorated with relief flowering branches. Two gaping animal masks form handles. Light buff clay with trans...
EditorialRectangular gravestone with an inscription in nicely carved out letters in a recessed area. Above it a triangular pediment with a rosette with leaves in it. Above it a motif of curly leaves on the corners with a ribbon waved to the middle. At the botto...
EditorialPablo Picasso / "Raphael and the Fornarina, XI: the Pope, gaping in his seat", 1968, Engraving (etching on copper matrix, thrown on paper), 28.5 x 35 cm, MPB 111.943.
EditorialHead of an old man with a pronounced chin, short cropped hair and gaping mouth showing teeth in profile to left, 1625?77, Etching; only state, Plate: 4 1/2 ? 3 1/8 in. (11.4 ? 7.9 cm), Prints, After Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452?1519 Amboise),...
EditorialNetsuke, Mask of a gaping man. Signed 'sukenaga'., Sukenaga, Japan, 1800 - 1825, Edo-period (1600-1868), wood (plant material), h 5.0 cm ? w 4.0 cm ? d 2.5 cm.
EditorialEXCLUSIVE: Great white sharks have mysteriously vanished from one of their most popular hunting grounds in South Africa leaving tourism bosses baffled as to what has driven away one of their biggest money spinners.
EditorialGold belt buckle fom the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, early 7th century. It is hollow and made in two parts joined by a hinge. The master-craftsman who made it devised a locking system involving a complex system of sliders and internal rods whic...
Editorial'Here folows a vysion of saules t[at] war da[m]pned’, partly in prose, partly in verse, incipit: ‘Cu[m] folow me my frendes vnto helle’. Illustration of the entry of the damned into the gaping jaws of hell. A Carthusian miscellany of poems, chro...
EditorialHead of an old man with a pronounced chin, short cropped hair and gaping mouth showing teeth in profile to left, 1625?77, Etching; only state, Plate: 4 1/2 ? 3 1/8 in. (11.4 ? 7.9 cm), Prints, After Leonardo da Vinci (Italian, Vinci 1452?1519 Amboise),...
EditorialSquare-Headed Bow Brooch, 500?600, Anglo-Saxon, Gilded copper alloy inlaid with niello, Overall: 5 3/8 x 3 x 15/16 in. (13.6 x 7.6 x 2.4 cm), Metalwork-Copper, This brooch displays the Anglo-Saxon preference for lavish decoration, with a particular emp...
EditorialPablo Picasso / "Raphael and the Fornarina, XI: the Pope, gaping in his seat", 1968, Engraving (etching on copper matrix, thrown on paper), 28.5 x 35 cm, MPB 111.943.
EditorialCartouche with lobe ornament, above and below a mask with gaping mouth, Michiel Mosijn, Gerbrand van den Eeckhout, Clement de Jonghe, 1640 - 1655.
EditorialGesneria fascialis (Gaping-flowered gesnera, Gesnera fascialis). Handcoloured copperplate engraving after a botanical illustration by Walter Fitch from William Jackson Hooker's Botanical Magazine, London, 1838.
EditorialA female ghost, Meiji era, Japan, c1871-c1889. She shrieks in triumph as she bears off the severed head. Cutting off a defeated enemy's head was the ultimate sign of victory in battle, but here, she even has blood dripping from her gaping fangs, sugges...
EditorialGold belt buckle fom the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, Suffolk, early 7th century. It is hollow and made in two parts joined by a hinge. The master-craftsman who made it devised a locking system involving a complex system of sliders and internal rods whic...