“The Erechtheum seen from the west, as it might have appeared at the beginning of the fourth century BC. A sacrificial procession with a lamb for the sacrifice is approaching the sanctuary of Athena Polias.” (p.77); "[...] in 420 BC the...
Engraving, from John G. Stedman's Narrative of a Five Years' Expedition against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, in Guiana, on the Wild Coast of South America.
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"L'Androgyne" (The Hermaphrodite) by Josephin Peladan, Part VIII of "L'Ethopee" or "La Decadence latine," frontispiece. Illustration from the catalogue of the Salon de la Rose Croix, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris, 1892.
"The Canterbury Tales", prologue, opening page, in "The Works of Geoffrey Chaucer," Kelmscott Press, 1896, woodcut illustration by Burne-Jones, border decorations and initials by William Morris.
By Beardsley: prospectus for "The Yellow Book," Elkin Matthews and John Lane, London, 1894 (bottom). Not by Beardsley: cover design for "The Studio," London, 1893, submitted in a competition (top); cover of "Art et...
"Ad Reinhardt's satirical cartoons, which contrasted sharply with his practice as a painter, dated back to the 1930s and 1940s. His strong Communist sympathies during that period had informed a series of cartoons for left-wing journals. By the...
“The Panathenaic procession passing through the Propylaea, the gate of the Acropolis. The ceremonial boat, on which the new tunic (peplos) for Athena may have been hoisted as a sail, would probably have been parked alongside the Clepsydra...
