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Oil-can with small, home-made bomb set off by a delayed-action detonator. (For open view see 27-02-01/66) Danish resistance movement World War II
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Oil-can with small, home-made bomb set off by a delayed-action detonator...

Oil-can with small, home-made bomb set off by a delayed-action detonator. (For closed view see 27-02-01 65) Danish resistance movement World War II
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Oil-can with small, home-made bomb set off by a delayed-action detonator...

Vase with faces, Nasca culture, Peru, 200 BCE - 600 CE. The representation of human heads is quite common in Nasca art. Some of them represent trophy heads, with eyes and mouth stitched shut with thorns or other implements.In this vessel, two bands of simple geometric motifs are painted in red and frame a band of human faces wrapped around the middle part of the vase. Ethno, 1941.Am4.34
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Vase with faces, Nasca culture, Peru, 200 BCE - 600 CE. The representation of h...

Double spout and bridge vessel with hummingbirds, Nasca culture, Peru, 200 BCE-600 CE. Decorated with several hummingbirds flying around two flowers at the base of the spouts. Hummingbirds were considered intermediaries or manifestations of the mountain gods. After painting, slip was applied and the vessel fired and burnished to a characteristic glossy finish. Ethno 1913.10-29.1
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Double spout and bridge vessel with hummingbirds, Nasca culture, Peru, 200 BCE-6...

Cast gold lime-flask of a seated female from Colombia, Quimbaya, c600-c1100 AD. The cast gold lime-flasks made by the Quimbaya culture are wonderful examples of the astonishing virtuosity achieved by pre-Columbian artisans. Various types of Quimbaya gold artefacts were adorned with human figures, which were sometimes portrayed wearing lime-flasks hanging from their neck. The flasks held lime obtained from burning and grinding seashells and the alkaline lime was chewed with coca leaves to release their active stimulant and enhance clear, contemplative thinking. This lime-flask was cast by the lost-wax method. Ethno, 1940.Am11.2
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Cast gold lime-flask of a seated female from Colombia, Quimbaya, c600-c1100 AD....

One of 8 baroque vases(1710/11)in Herrenhausen gardens. The summer residence of the Princes of Hannover was begun in 1638.The gardens were magnificently enlarged by Sophie,wife of elector Ernst August.In 1714 her son became king George I of England.
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One of 8 baroque vases(1710/11)in Herrenhausen gardens. The summer residence of...

Formal ponds and vases with flowers in Herrenhausen. The summer residence of the Princes of Hannover was begun in 1638.The gardens were magnificently enlarged by Sophie,wife of elector Ernst August.In 1714 her son became king George I of England.
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Formal ponds and vases with flowers in Herrenhausen. The summer residence of...

The Bomarzo "Park of Monsters" (1551/52) was planned by Pirro Ligorio (who completed the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rome after the death of Michelangelo and built the Villa d'Este in Tivoli) on commission of Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, who was mourning the death of his wife Giulia Farnese. The couple had no heirs and the Park was left to rot for almost fourhundred years, until the Bettini family restored the park and opened it to the public. Vase and female goddess.
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The Bomarzo "Park of Monsters" (1551/52) was planned by Pirro Ligorio (who compl...

The Bomarzo "Park of Monsters" (1551/52) was planned by Pirro Ligorio (who completed the Cathedral of St. Peter in Rome after the death of Michelangelo and built the Villa d'Este in Tivoli) on commission of Prince Pier Francesco Orsini, who was mourning the death of his wife Giulia Farnese. The couple had no heirs and the Park was left to rot for almost fourhundred years, until the Bettini family restored the park and opened it to the public. Elephant grabbing a Roman legionaire.
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The Bomarzo "Park of Monsters" (1551/52) was planned by Pirro Ligorio (who compl...

Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, as Hebe, Goddess of eternal youth, daughter of Zeus and Hera, who served nectar to the gods.
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Marie Antoinette, Queen of France, as Hebe, Goddess of eternal youth, daught...

Music-room in the Hotel de Beauharnais, Paris. Clock by Thomire. The Hotel de Beauharnais was the residence of Eugene de Beauharnais, Josephine's son adopted by Napoleon I.
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Music-room in the Hotel de Beauharnais, Paris. Clock by Thomire. The Ho...

Professor Louis Pasteur's instruments: a glass balloon with swan's neck for his experiments to disprove the idea of a "spontaneous creation"; a glass bottle with the marrow of a rabbit infected with rabies, dried to increase the virus' virulence (1884).
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Professor Louis Pasteur's instruments: a glass balloon with swan's neck for his...