EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialJapanese wedding ceremony. A monk presides over the marriage in a shrine to the goddess of virginity while musicians play on gongs and koto harp, and the bride's childish ornaments are burnt on a pyre. Handcoloured illustration and copperplate engravin...
EditorialBas-relief of a young woman sacrificing her virginity to the god Priapus. Handcoloured lithograph from Cesar Famin's "Musee royal de Naples (The Royal Museum at Naples)," Abel Ledoux, Paris, 1836. This rare volume is a catalog of the collection of erot...
EditorialFragment of a poliptych of originally five panels: Annunciation, Drinking the " Bitter Water" (an ordeal over Mary's virginity) and the Flight to Egypt. From the Eastern Mediterranean, second half 6th Polychrome ivory, OA 11149.