INTRODUCTION: Heart failure is a major and growing public health concern. Although heart failure has been considered an inexorable and progressive disorder, emerging evidence suggests that some patients may have reversible left ventricular...
The fundamental question of the exact nature of the role played by TNF in the failing myocardium remains one of contention. Many preclinical studies have demonstrated beneficial effects with TNF antagonism and recently the dichotomous role played...
Railroad tracks; Electric railroads; Railroads; Canals
Four sets of railroad tracks with fields on either side. Electric poles and lines run parallel to the tracks. A train is on the left set of tracks with a person sitting on the top of one of the cars. A second train is on one of the middle sets of...
Caption information: Schwangere Frau nach links [Pregnant woman facing left (seen from the left)] / um 1908 [c. 1908] / Bleistift, roter und blauer Farbstift [pencil, red and blue crayon/color pencil] [Note: “farbstift” translates as “color...
"In the center Achilles, still in a girl's clothes, is shown advancing to his left about to rush in the direction from which the sound of the trumpet comes. He is represented as a beautiful youth with red hair, his face bearing a feminine...
"The Villa Farnesina, which some scholars think was built by Agrippa in 21 B.C. to celebrate his marriage to Julia, daughter of the emperor Augustus, displayed one of the most refined examples of Roman domestic decoration. It is dated to the...
From caption: L'Europa dopo la pioggia (1940-41); from the Wadsworth Atheneum website (http://www.thewadsworth.org/) (11-2011): Max Ernst, Europe after the Rain, oil on canvas, 21 5/8 x 58 1/3 in., 1940-42, The Ella Gallup Sumner and Mary Catlin...
"Where Do We Come From? offers a flowing composition divided into three main figure groupings set in a jungle clearing with the sea in the background. In the center a Polynesian Eve, reminiscent of Botticelli's Giuliano de' Medici in the...
Nike of Samothrace alighting on the victorious ship. From Samothrace, Greece. Perhaps by Pythokritos of Rhodes; "The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of...
Sculpture; Ship figureheads; Myths; Legends; Fictitious characters; Supernatural beings; Goddesses; Women; People associated with religion; Clothing & dress
From Samothrace, Greece. [Perhaps by Pythokritos of Rhodes]. "The winged goddess of Victory standing on the prow of a ship overlooked the Sanctuary of the Great Gods on the island of Samothrace. This monument was probably an ex-voto offered by...
Portrait of left profile of unidentified woman wearing dark top with buttons. Location of photo studio: Cincinnati (Ohio). Title supplied by cataloger.
Portrait of left profile of unidentified young man with dark hair, Roman nose, and striped suit jacket. Location of photo studio: Louisville (Ky.). Title supplied by cataloger.
Full-length character portrait of actor Maclyn Arbuckle in costume for his role as Smith in "Why Smith Left Home," which he performed at Macauley's Theatre in October 1898 and again in February 1900. He wears a three-piece suit and bow...
A young woman leans against large rocks as she looks out at the water of Lake Michigan. She is wearing a light-colored dress and a dark cape or wrap. Handwritten on album page in photographer Kate Matthews' hand: "The Girl I Left Behind...
Looking north on Dixie Highway. A paved street with dirt shoulders and a railroad track running parallel on the left. Houses are in the distance. Accompanying information reads, ""Southwestern outfall would cross at this point. Path...
“One of the finest – and most controversial – works of third-century relief sculpture is the fragmentary sarcophagus found at Acilia, near Rome. It is an example of a later form of Roman coffin that art historians call the lenos (bathtub)...
