EditorialPortugal: Fons Vitae (Fountain of Life) c.1515-17, painting by Colijn de Coter (c. 1440 - c. 1532), oil on oak wood and originating in Flanders, now in the Museu da Misericórdia do Porto, Porto
EditorialAntonio Basco kneeling before a cross honoring his wife, Margie Reckard, who was one of the victims of a mass shooting at a local Walmart earlier in the month, in El Paso, Texas on Aug. 15, 2019. (Joel Angel Juarez/The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left: Mabel Cadena, Dominique Thorne and Florence Kasumba, kneeling, members of the "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" cast, in San Diego, Calif., July 23, 2022.. (Simone Niamani Thompson/The New York Times)
EditorialA resident cries while kneeling as the funeral procession for Ukrainian Army Sgt. Kochetov Volodymyr Petrovich, 45, passes by in Babyntsi, Ukraine, on June 30, 2022. (Mauricio Lima/The New York Times)
EditorialCatherine Hurlin (aloft) and Aran Bell (kneeling) in Alexei Ratmansky’s “Of Love and Rage,” performed by the American Ballet Theater in New York on June 20, 2022. (Julieta Cervantes/The New York Times)
EditorialA Jan. 11, 2002, photo taken by Shane T. McCoy and released by the U.S. Navy shows a female soldier, with the first 20 prisoners at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba kneeling in the background soon after their arrival. (Petty Officer 1st Class Shane T. McCoy/U.S. Navy via The New York Times)
EditorialFrom left, “Male Power Figure (Nkisi)” by a Kongo artist from the Democratic Republic of Congo, 19th century, and “A Kneeling Figure” from Egypt, ca. 380-246 B.C., on display in “The African Origin of Civilization” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Dec. 28, 2021. (Seth Caplan/The New York Times)