EditorialTerracotta neck-amphora, Proto-Attic, early 7th century B.C., Greek, Attic, Terracotta, H. 11 11/16 in. (29.7 cm), Vases, The style of this vase represents the transition from Geometric, with its preponderance of ornament and its spare artistic idiom, ...
EditorialFigure: Male, 12th?17th century (?), Mali, Dogon peoples (?), Wood, H. 25 3/8 x W. 3 7/8 x D. 4 5/8 in. (64.5 x 9.9 x 11.8 cm), Wood-Sculpture, Although its precise culture and date of origin are unknown, this work is intriguing for both stylistic and ...
EditorialNobleman on a Terrace, ca. 1780, Attributed to India, Murshidabad, Ink, opaque watercolor, silver, and gold on paper, 34 x 21.3 cm, Codices, The spare setting, limited palette, and figural style assign this painting to the late Mughal center of Murshid...
EditorialA Musician and His Daughter, 1629, Oil on wood, 29 1/2 x 20 3/4 in. (74.9 x 52.7 cm), Paintings, Thomas de Keyser (Dutch, Amsterdam (?) 1596/97?1667 Amsterdam), In this dynamic formal portrait an amateur musician with a theorbo is presented with his da...
EditorialCylindrical Vessel, 1st century B.C.?A.D. 1st century, Guatemala, Mesoamerica, Maya, Ceramic, slip, Height 10 in. (25.4 cm), Ceramics-Containers, The clean lines and spare ornament of this Maya ceramic vessel illustrate the early stages of an art form ...
EditorialSide Chair, 1815?35, Probably made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, American, Mahogany, poplar, 33 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 21 in. (85.1 x 44.5 x 53.3 cm), Furniture, In the early nineteenth century, no form of ancient furniture was imitated as succ...
EditorialChair, ca. 1825, Made in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, American, Mahogany, ebony inlay, 32 5/16 x 19 1/2 x 21 1/2 in. (82.1 x 49.5 x 54.6 cm), Furniture, In the early nineteenth century, no form of ancient furniture was imitated as success...
EditorialSpare cartridges, 1864, drawing on cream paper black ink, 18.9 x 20.8 cm. (sheet), 1862-1865, by Alfred R Waud, 1828-1891, an american artist famous for his American Civil War sketches, America, US.
EditorialBlack margate, Anisotremus surinamensis (Trimaculated spare, Sparus trimaculatus). Illustration drawn and engraved by Richard Polydore Nodder. Handcoloured copperplate engraving from George Shaw and Frederick Nodder's The Naturalist's Miscellany, Londo...
EditorialTHE SPARE BED AT THE CROCODILE, BY GUSTAVE DORE. a scene from the Legend of Croquemitaine, by Thomas Hood the Younger. Dore, 1832 - 1883, French, 1870, Art, Artist, romanticism, colour, color engraving.
EditorialCarl Michael Bellmann (1740-95) playing guitar, 1779. Bellman, born in Stockholm, first attracted public attention in the 1760s with his drinking songs, generating such popular esteem that Gustav III gave him a government position to allow him to car...
EditorialWashing flutters in the wind in the "Self-Help-Colony" of Kraternberg near Essen,West-Germany.Here miners spent sixteen hours a week of their spare time to build their own houses with bathroom,modern kitchen and a large outhouse for chicken and rabbits.
EditorialL'action courageuse d'Eustache de Saint-Pierre au siege de Calais, 1347-a scene from the 100-years war, in which Edward III of England, having finally taken Calais, asks for six citizens to be sent to him, to die for their town. The six volunteers are ...
EditorialVolumnie et Verturie devant Coriolan-Volumnia and Verturia before Coriolan. Mother and wife implore the victorious Coriolan to spare Rome, his hometown. Canvas,115 x 175 cm.