Locust, an actual estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky was the fictional home of both the Old Colonel and the title character in the Little Colonel book series written by Annie Fellows Johnston. Main sections of the house are believed to have been...
Long, straight, tree-lined driveway to an estate in Pewee Valley, Kentucky. The estate was most likely Locust, an actual place in Pewee Valley, Kentucky that was the fictional home of both the Old Colonel and the title character in the Little...
Antiphonaries--Illustrations; Gregorian chants--Illustrations; Music--Manuscripts--France; Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval--France; Manuscripts, Medieval
Leaf from a fifteenth century French antiphonary, representing a segment of text related to the Feast of the Crown of Thorns. Also called an antiphonal or antiphoner, an antiphonary collects portions of psalms and hymns sung during liturgies or...
Freight cars filled with iron ore. A man stands on top of one car guiding a bucket of ore. Beyond the trains are a barge and smaller ships in the water. Title: (75)-7965-Unloading iron ore from lake vessels - old and new methods - Cleveland, O....
Ivy against a woodgrain background. Postage requirements date this card to before 1952; actual date is probably much earlier. "P.C. 214" printed on verso. This has been identified as a valentine card by the processing archivist.
The Louvre portrait is of a "young boy wearing a toga praetexta (a purple-bordered toga) and bulla (ornament worn around a child's neck). […] Comparisons with coins bearing the image of Britannicus exclude the possibility that this is a...
This mosaic "decorated the vertical bar of the T-form figured composition of the dining room floor to which the mosaic of Pasiphae and Daedalus belonged. The thick swastika-meander band in perspective at the top was the partition between the...
This mosaic's "border consists of two rows of solids in perspective, each with a dot on its face, and between these a rich acanthus scroll. Except in the outer left row the solids meet in the middle. The acanthus branches spring from two...
Paintings; Oil paintings; Still life paintings; Still lifes; Collages; Mixed media; Chairs; Furniture; Seating furniture; Wicker furniture; Textures; Ropes; Borders (Ornament areas)
Oil and pasted oilcloth on canvas, surrounded with rope; "Eager to recover other aspects of reality - positive color and texture, for instance - and increase the legibility of his pictures, without resorting to the outmoded conventions of...
Sculpture; Sarcophagi; Coffins; Death & burial; Containers; Monuments & memorials; Memorial works; Inscriptions; Human life cycle; Childhood & youth; Domestic life; Child rearing; Breast feeding; Feeding; Lifting & carrying; Riding;...
"[…] this child's sarcophagus has been reassembled from many fragments. The front panel is, however, in fairly good condition, with a few missing pieces reconstructed from Carrara marble. […] This sarcophagus is among the earliest of the...
"Although resident in America, Morley was the first winner of the Turner Prize in 1984. Funded by the 'Patrons of New Art' affiliated to London's Tate Gallery, this prize was subsequently awarded annually for 'outstanding contributions' to...
"Duchamp's most outrageous Ready-Made was a urinal that he submitted as a sculpture to a New York exhibition mounted by the Society of Independent Artists in 1917. He turned it upside down, signed it 'R. Mutt' and called it a Fountain. The...
"The son and successor of Artaxerxes, Shapur I (r. 241-272), succeeded in further extending Sasanian territory. He also erected a great palace at Ctesiphon, the capital his father had established near modern Baghdad in Iraq. The central...
From Gizeh, Egypt, Dynasty IV. "The seated statue of Khafre is one of a series of similar statues carved for the pharaoh's valley temple near the Great Sphinx. The stone is diorite, an exceptionally hard dark stone brought some 400 miles down...
