EditorialThe appointment to the total capacity citadel Uraniburgi Qvo, Illustration of the design of Uranienborg from the 17th century, Fig. 23, p. 101, 1602, Tycho Brahe: Tychonis Brahe Astronomiae instauratae mechanica. Noribergae [N?rnberg]: apud Levinum Hul...
EditorialFrancis Quesnoy other fiamengo Bruxellanus Peter de Laar other is full of Harlem, Nicholas Poussin Gal. The appointment was made at another time Lorrain Gel?e, Claudius, O Daniel Segers Soc. Jesus Antwerp. John Booth Ultraiectensis, Portrait of Fran?oi...
EditorialRichard Bourchier (c.1700-1770), c.1760 A half-length figure, in an oval, wearing a grey wig, brown coat and waistcoat. He holds his hat under his left arm and the hand is tucked into the waistcoat. Brown background. Richard Bourchier was in India from...
EditorialMajor-General Sir Henry Gee Roberts (1800-60), c.1830 A half-length portrait showing a fair-haired young man in a red uniform with gold epaulettes and braid. Roberts served with the Bombay Army 1818-59. He became a captain in 1824 and in 1825 commanded...
EditorialRichard Bourchier (c.1700-1770), c.1760 A half-length figure, in an oval, wearing a grey wig, brown coat and waistcoat. He holds his hat under his left arm and the hand is tucked into the waistcoat. Brown background. Richard Bourchier was in India from...
EditorialMajor-General Sir Henry Gee Roberts (1800-60), c.1830 A half-length portrait showing a fair-haired young man in a red uniform with gold epaulettes and braid. Roberts served with the Bombay Army 1818-59. He became a captain in 1824 and in 1825 commanded...
EditorialRichard Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, kneels before King Henry V, to receive a letter of his appointment as captain of Calais. A bishop hands Warwick the letter. Beauchamp pageants. S. Netherlands [Bruges?]; after 1483. Source: Cotton Julius E. IV art.6.
EditorialMiniature of a human-headed dragon, representing the papacy of Urban VI whose election was contested and resulted in the appointment of the anti-pope Clement VII. Vaticinia de Pontificibus. Italy, Central (Florence); 2nd quarter of the 15th century. So...
EditorialMedal: Self-portrait, model ca. 1566 or 1571 (cast 18th or 19th century), Bronze (Copper alloy with chocolate, Diam. 7.8 cm, wt. 119.31 g., Medals, Alfonso Ruspagiari (Italian, Reggio Emilia 1521?1576 Reggio Emilia), The obverse shows a half-length, fr...
EditorialMedal: Self-portrait, model ca. 1566 or 1571 (cast 18th or 19th century), Bronze (Copper alloy with chocolate, Diam. 7.8 cm, wt. 119.31 g., Medals, Alfonso Ruspagiari (Italian, Reggio Emilia 1521?1576 Reggio Emilia), The obverse shows a half-length, fr...
Editorial? ?? ????? ?, Spring Clouds at the Pine Studio, Yuan dynasty (1271?1368), dated 1366, China, Hanging scroll; ink and color on paper, Image: 36 1/4 x 12 1/2 in. (92.1 x 31.8 cm), Paintings, Zhang Yu (Chinese, 1333?1385), A poet, calligrapher, and painte...
EditorialEmperor Henry IV at Canossa, ca. 1770?75, Italian, Bologna, Terracotta, Overall (confirmed): H. 23 7/8 x W. 9 1/4 x D. 7 1/8 in. (60.6 x 23.5 x 18.1 cm), Sculpture, Pope Saint Gregory VII excommunicated Emperor Henry IV for his interference in the appo...
EditorialLarge Dish (tagliere): Pope Leo X presenting a baton to Federigo II Gonzaga, marquis of Mantua, on his appointment as captain general of the Church in 1521., ca. 1525?30, Maiolica (tin-glazed earthenware), Diameter: 19 1/16 in. (48.4cm), Ceramics-Potte...
EditorialGloria Mundi, or The Devil addressing the sun Pare. Lost, Book IV, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, London, engraving 1782, en sanguine engraving showing Charles James Fox standing on a roulette wheel perched atop a globe showing England and continen...
EditorialPedro Velarde y Santillan (1779-1808). Spanish artillery captain famous for his death in the Dos de Mayo. Document: Velarde appointment as brigadier. 27/01/1798. Real Alcazar de Segovia. Velaverde Museum. Muriendas. Cantabria. Spain.
EditorialGloria Mundi, or The Devil addressing the sun Pare. Lost, Book IV, Gillray, James, 1756-1815, artist, London, engraving 1782, en sanguine engraving showing Charles James Fox standing on a roulette wheel perched atop a globe showing England and continen...
EditorialCharles Dickens, from a recent daguerreotype by Mayall, 1 December, 1855. . Memoir of Charles Dickens. . The lives of men of genius when happy, are ordinarily uneventful. It may, perhaps, be one of the reaspms for the paucity of materials available for...
EditorialCross of Timotheos, Egyptian, late 14th. This iron bene-dictional cross was found in Timothos' grave, although burials at this time were usually without funeral gifts. Clerics were buried in their robes of office, but Thimoteos was buried in his travel...