Stone Mother and Child Figure

It is one of the oldest easel paintings in Lithuania, closely linked to Vytautas, the Grand Duke of Lithuania (reigning 1401-1430), and early Christianisation in Lithuania. Up unti...

"362-22" "Two Bears Band, Fort Rice.″Yanktonai pipe bag; wool, glass, porcupine quills; l. 43.5/73 cm., w. 16.5 cm.; ca. 1860s.″Documentation: \Two Bears band, Fort Rice.‖ Purchase...

Tobacco, smoking, ritual, pipes, tobacco bags Tobacco was a stimulant used by the indigenous people in large parts of North, Central and South America as a sedative, medicine again...

Pipe bag; Lakota; ca. 1870-1880 \nHide, glass beads, porcupine quills, pigments; l. 40 cm. (incl. fringe); w. 13 cm.\nRMV 3158-9; purchased from art dealer Leendert Van Lier, Amste...

The nineteenth century witnessed the evolution of the nuclear family unit—father, mother, and children—into a nexus of bourgeois social life throughout Europe and North America. In...

Fragment of a Medieval stone sculpture of an unidentified secular figure probably dating to c.AD 1320-1450. The fragment consists of the upper torso and shows the figure with their...

Jan van Scorel played an important role in Netherlandish art through his dissemination of Italian Renaissance ideas and models. Van Scorel combined his activities as a painter with...

Pendant in twelve-pointed form, made of marble (or alabaster?) from the place Haci Bektash. The pendant is worn on a cord around the neck by followers of the Sufi order of the Bekt...