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....
Cityscapes; Government facilities; Buildings; White House (Washington, D.C.); Bird's-eye views
Almost aerial view of Washington, D.C. showing the White House and other government buildings behind a green space bordered by trees. Title: (2) From Washington Monument (N.), White House, Treasury, and State Department, Washington, U.S.A....
Busy and wide cobblestone street lined with buildings on either side. Streetcar tracks run down the street. On the street are streetcars and carriages. Pedestrians are on the streets and sidewalks. Elevated tracks run parallel to the left and...
University of Louisville--Students; Students; University of Louisville. Speed Scientific School; Engineering laboratories; Women engineering students; Microscopes;
Three students work with a microscope in the Speed School's chemical engineering laboratory. One of the students is female; this may be Margaret Mattingly. A Courier-Journal article from August 16, 1936 notes that the microscope the students are...
A student consults what appears to be a schedule or notes; an older woman in front of a keyboard and monitor looks at her. Several similar pairs can be seen in the background.
"Soon after the creation of Composition VII, in late November, Kandinsky painted Dreamy Improvisation [Träumerische Improvisation] on 3 December 1913 followed by Light Picture [Helles Bild] and Black Lines [Schwarze Striche] in mid-December....
“In various letters and diary notes the artist has explained how the preoccupation with ethnological problems, with the symbolism of colors, and certain literary concepts participated in the genesis of this canvas: ‘I painted the nude of a...
"This is the painting Dali took to show Freud in London. It belonged formerly to Edward James." (Caption); "At Zürs […] Dali embarked on a new experiment: the composition, in French, of a 'paranoaic' poem, The Myth of Narcissus,...
Sculpture; Allusions; Chemistry; Science; Interpersonal relations; Social science; Sociology; Utopias
"The work consisted of a triangular gauze filter stretched across a corner into which lumps of fat had been packed. Apart from alluding to physical metamorphoses brought about via osmosis, processes of refinement and purification were evoked....
"Here Morris presented a small rectangular structure with a door shaped as a letter 'I'. When opened the door gave on to a photograph of the artist, his phallus rhyming with the "I" connotative both of the viewers looking (eye) and...
Sculpture of two interlocking parts, galvanized plaster for the wedge and dental plastic for the base; The following descriptive notes are from: Schwarz, Arturo. The Complete Works of Marcel Duchamp. 2nd rev. ed. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1970,...
Notes from catalog entry, p. 603: GMS 34; Roethel and Benjamin assigned the title Johannisstrasse from a Window of the Griesbräu which specifies the view from Kandinsky's room on an upper floor; "Kandinsky painted the view from the window of...
"The face is Late Classical in type, as is the anatomy. Though the proportions are changed and she is higher-waisted than the Aphrodite of Knidos, the similarity is nonetheless there. The new proportions, the twisting spiral of the figure...
