On cover: Architectural and decorative ornaments

Inscription: In ink on Errata page verso, " this book was given me by my Aunt Clark and writ with a parrot's feather made by Elizabeth Vincent & written by me Hannah Carter in the year 1705 August the 20th" together with an incomplete alphabet, squiggles and an ink smear

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Staring resolutely, with hand on sword, this terracotta warrior would have looked out over the pediment of a temple in Cerveteri, around the end of the 6th...

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Emile Molinier, Paris (until 1906); [his sale, Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris (June 21-28, 1906, lot 378)]; [ Jean Larcade, Paris (until at least 1960)]; Ruth and Leopold Blumka, New York (by 1967-1995); Anthony and Lois Blumka, New York (1995–2000)

Majolica ceramic with cobalt and manganese decoration Medieval period, Almohad period, late 12-early 13th century CE Made in the Maghreb/Tunisia Found immured in the facade of the church of S. Michele degli Scalzi, Pisa (restructured in 1204) Photographed on display in, and in the collection of, the Museo nazionale di San Matteo, Pisa

Full: Front Textile fragment; cuff of sleeve(?); one textile folded in half and sewn up one side; cotton warps and mix of cotton and camelid wefts; slit tapestry; rows of bird motifs; browns. © The Trustees of the British Museum

Mounted label on inside of front cover: Maison Robert, Victor Ducroquet, gendre et successeur, no. 78312

‘The Saga of the Thracian Kings’ brings together 1,600 objects from 17 Bulgarian museums, documenting ancient art works from the Odrysian kingdom

from the Walters Art Museum, in Baltimore, Maryland.

Sculptural innovation of the Gothic period can be seen in this head of an Old Testament monarch, carved for the abbey church of Saint-Denis, outside Paris. The head, from a pier (column) figure on the building's west façade, represents the transition between the abstraction and solidity characteristic of the eleventh and earlier twelfth centuries (often called the "Romanesque" period), and the increased interest in naturalism seen from the later twelfth century through the end of the medieval period. Although this example is by no means a realistic representation of the human figure, the sculptor has incorporated elements based on the observation of nature, such as the softly rounded contours of the face and the wavy curls of hair. This interest in naturalism continued to develop through the later Middle Ages and the early modern period. When this sculpture was in situ, the feet of the full-length figure would have been at about the height of a viewer's head, and the monarch would have stared down at the viewer, his crown, robe and eyes brightly painted and adorned with inset glass and metal. The heads of the jamb figures were removed from the portal in the late eighteenth century, just before the royal burial church became a target of vandalism during the French Revolution.

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Aryballos sphinxes owls Staatliche Antikensammlungen, Greece Online Encyclopedia

Staatsbibliothek Bamberg - SBB - Heinrichsbibliothek

Pieter Van Harinxma 1628-1630 Kunera van Douma 1605-1611 Juliana de Roussel 1616-1645 Joost van Ockings 1576 Juw Van Harinxma 1625-1631 Hom...

Gonzaga, Francesco / Julius : Herbarium Apuleii Platonici, mit Widmungsbrief des Autors an Kardinal Francesco Gonzaga bzw. an Kardinal Giuliano della Rovere, [Rom], [ca. 1481/82] [BSB-Ink H-97 - GW 2300]

Battistero di s. giovanni in fonte

Astronomische und komputistische Sammelhandschrift Oberrhein, Anfang 12. Jh. Clm 10270 Folio 3