EditorialA Nereid (sea nymph) in mantle and bracelets riding on a sea monster, half horse and half fish. Museo Naz. XXII, Stabiae. Illustration drawn by Discanno and lithographed by Victor Steeger from Emile Presuhn's "Choix des plus Belles et Interessantes Pei...
EditorialA Nereid (sea nymph) in mantle and bracelets riding on a sea monster, half horse and half fish. Museo Naz. XXII, Stabiae. Illustration drawn by Discanno and lithographed by Victor Steeger from Emile Presuhn's "Choix des plus Belles et Interessantes Pei...
EditorialSea Monster ("Das Meerwunder"). Dated: c. 1498. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.7 x 18.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.). Medium: engraving.
EditorialSea Monster ("Das Meerwunder"). Dated: c. 1498. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.7 x 18.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.). Medium: engraving.
EditorialTwo salt-cellars Two salt-cellars Two Salt-Cellars Salt barrel of which the dish is carried by a boy sitting on a dolphin. The salt vessels (A and B) are made up of a cast pedestal and trunk and a driven dish. The triangular, high-rising gilt pedestal ...
EditorialTwo Salt-Cellars, Two salt-cellars, Salt barrel whose shell is being carried seated on a dolphin by a boy, The salt vessels (A and B) are made up of a cast pedestal and trunk and a driven bowl. The triangular, high-rising gilt pedestal is completely de...
Editorial'Rustam is Thrown into the Sea by the Div Akvan', Folio from a Shahnama (Book of Kings) of Firdausi, ca. 1330?40, Attributed to Iran, probably Isfahan, Ink, opaque watercolor, gold, and silver on paper, Painting: H. 1 7/8 in. (4.8 cm), Codices, The ill...
EditorialText, with illustrations of the the constellations Argo, and Cetus, the sea monster from which Perseus rescued Andromeda; by an Anglo-Saxon artist in the style of the Winchester school. Aratus. France [Fleury?]; late 10th century. Source: Harley 2506, ...
EditorialThe Appenine Colossus in the garden of the Villa di Pratolino, Florence. A colossal sculpture by Giambologna built in 1569, it shows the god Appenino resting his hand on a sea monster over a fountain. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from Bertuch's "...
EditorialAustria. Vienna. Andromeda Fountain, 1741. By Georg Raphael Donner (1693-1741). Altes Rathaus (Old Town Hall). The relief depicts Andromeda struggling with sea monster.
EditorialSea Monster ("Das Meerwunder"). Dated: c. 1498. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.7 x 18.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.). Medium: engraving.
EditorialSea Monster ("Das Meerwunder"). Dated: c. 1498. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.7 x 18.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.). Medium: engraving.
EditorialTriton Combats Sea Monster, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Black chalk on off white laid paper, Centaur shown swinging club with right hand. Woman sits upon centaur's back, shaped like fish. Above at left, monster with head of goat., Italy, ca. 1805,...
EditorialWhale Hunt by the Emperor Claudius in the harbour at Ostia, pl. 19 in the Venationes Ferarum, Avium, Piscium series, Adriaen Collaert, Flemish, ca. 1560 1618, Philips Galle, Flemish, 1537 - 1612, Jan van der Straet, called Stradanus, Flemish, 15231605,...
EditorialPlate from Frises pour les architraves, cornices, et autres ornements d'architecture (Friezes Intended for Ornamenting Architecture, Cornices, and Other Architectural Elements), Jean Le Pautre, French, 16181682, Pierre Mariette II, French, 1634 - 1716,...
EditorialSea Centaur Battles Sea Monster, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Black chalk on off white laid paper, Above at left, a monster with ram head and butterfly wings. A young centaur seen from left and back, has horn in left hand and swinging a fish with r...
EditorialSea Cintaur Combats Sea Monster, Felice Giani, Italian, 17581823, Pen and brown ink, graphite on cream laid paper, Two different compositions situated one on top of other. Above, sea monster clubbing forehead of centaur. Woman, riding centaur, jumps in...
EditorialPlate 5, Receuil de Fontaines (Collection of Fountains), Fran?ois Boucher, French, 1703 1770, Gabriel Huquier, French, 16951772, Gabriel Huquier, French, 16951772, Engraving on paper, Folio 5, plate 5 of a series of 7. Design for a fountain. Rococo fou...
EditorialSea Monster ("Das Meerwunder"). Dated: c. 1498. Dimensions: sheet (trimmed to plate mark): 24.7 x 18.8 cm (9 3/4 x 7 3/8 in.). Medium: engraving.
EditorialHippokamp, Tuff, chiseled, Nenfro tuff, chiseled, Total: Height: 82.4 cm; Width: 82.5 cm; Depth: 17.5 cm, Sculptures, funerary monument, grave furnishings, late archaic, The term Hippokamp refers to a mythical creature that is half horse, half sea mons...
EditorialHippokamp, Tuff, chiseled, Nenfro tuff, chiseled, Total: Height: 89 cm; Width: 81 cm; Depth: 20.3 cm, Sculptures, funerary monument, grave furnishings, sea monster, late archaic, The sculpture is the counterpart to Inv. 1994.201.a. Here the front part ...
EditorialWilhelm Weimar, jug, glass negative, black and white negative process, total: height: 23.8 cm; width: 17.8 cm, numbered: top left. : in black ink: 849, photography, Arts and Crafts, Applied Arts, Industrial Design, Jug (drinking vessel), Fish (animals)...
EditorialWilhelm Weimar, Nautilus cup Venus and Neptune, glass negative, black and white negative process, total: height: 23.8 cm; width: 17.8 cm, numbered: top left: in black ink: 620, shell, drinking vessels, Neptune and entourage, gods (classic. Mythology), ...