Parables from Nature with Notes on the Natural History

362-187Hopi woven belt, faja (TK); wool; l. 239 cm., w. 9 cm.; ca. 1880.\Such belts were usually used by women to secure their dress, but on ceremonial occasions men adopted these ...

“The whole landscape, which, seen by a favourable light, and in a genial temperature, had been found so lovely, appeared now like some pictured allegory of life, in which objects w...

This is the interior of a Gothic church with a quadripartite vault and a blue and cream field pavement. A door open at the left frames two men just outside the church. Above the po...

KU Leuven. Glass slides art history. Université de Louvain, between 1839 and 1939. Photographer unknown. Added information on slide. Movement / Style: Roman art. Creation/Building:...

The painting career of the until then illustrator Winslow Homer began in 1859 when he moved from Boston to New York. He took easel painting lessons from the French-born landscape a...