Character portrait of actress Marcia Van Dresser in the role of Francesca in "Francesca da Rimini" (ca. 1901), which she performed opposite Otis Skinner at Macauley's Theatre in November 1901. She wears a white blouse, and flowers in her...
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval; Illuminations 1200-1500
Leaf from a small portable Gothic Bible, copied in France in the thirteenth century. The Latin translation used throughout this period was known as the Vulgate, since Latin was the common or vulgar language read by all literate people of the time....
Two-story brick building with long windows at the corner of Twenty-Sixth and Walnut (now Muhammad Ali Boulevard), Louisville, Kentucky. Ground floor houses Hubbuch's Cafe, selling Fortuna Whisky and Senn & Ackerman Lager Beer. A man is visible...
Performance art; Video recording; Film stills; Men; Artists; Backs (Anatomy); Dance; Locomotion; Human locomotion; Geometry
"Carried out for the camera alone, Nauman's performances of the late 1960s often dealt with the artist's confinement in his studio. This was ironic given that elsewhere art was shrugging off its traditional solipsism and taking to the streets....
Detail of a watercolor copy of a wall painting. "More remarkable still is a painting in one of the older rooms at Çatal Höyük that generally has been acclaimed as the world's first landscape (a picture of a natural setting in its own right,...
