Tag: "ancient"

Henry Elford Luxmoore (1841-1926); Austin Lamont (1905-1969)

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Woodcut illustration of the Amazons Lampedo and Marpesia

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Woodcut illustration of Poppaea Sabina and Nero

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Illuminated Manuscript, Koran, Double-page illuminated frontispiece, Walters Art Museum, Ms W.743, fol. 1b

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Woodcut illustration of Venus and Cupid, with Vulcan chaining Venus and Mars while Dis looks on in the background

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Woodcut (hand-colored by a reader) featuring emblems of various Swiss cantons (among them, Basel, Berne, Uri, Zug and Glarus) around central Habsburg arms. Used by Pamphilus Gengenbach of Basel.

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Woodcut illustration of Porcia Catonis counseling Marcus Junius Brutus, Julius Caesar's death at the hands of Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, and Porcia's suicide

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Woodcut arms of Gottfried von Hohenlohe (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut illustration of Rhea Silvia and the birth of Romulus and Remus

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Woodcut illustration of Jupiter and Io with Mercury and a drowsing Argus

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Woodcut illustration of Chiomara, wife of Orgiagon of Galatia

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Woodcut illustration of Medusa and Neptune embracing beside a winged horse (either Pegasus or Chrysaor), with Perseus mounted upon Pegasus (following later developments of the Perseus legend) in the b...

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Woodcut illustration of Hercules (dressed as both a man and a woman) and Iole

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Woodcut of the Virgin Mary as Queen of Heaven with the Christ Child, with artist's(?) monogram at foot of image. Used by Wolfgang Stoeckel.

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16th century German binding: full blind-tooled pigskin over wooden boards

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Woodcut arms of Ludwig von Erlichshausen (hand-colored) used by Georg Osterberger of Königsberg [i.e. Kaliningrad]

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Woodcut illustration of Niobe, Amphion and their dead sons

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Woodcut of Our Lady of Sorrows. Used by Valentin Schumann of Leipzig.

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Woodcut publisher's device of Durand Gerlier of Paris with his address in a rebus

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Stamps from the Jesuit college in Naples and from the Reale Biblioteca Borbonica (Biblioteca nazionale (Naples, Italy))

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Antony Constans

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Woodcut illustration of Verginia's trial before Appius Claudius and her death at the hand of her father Verginius

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Woodcut illustration of Amalthea (the Cumaean sibyl), Tarquinius Superbus and the Sibylline books

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Armorial bookplate of the Pfau family (Winterthur, Switzerland)

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