For centuries, Sorrento has been the destination of northern European longing for Italy. Writers and painters have immortalised the place in words and pictures.
Sorrento, a coastal town in southwest Italy on the Bay of Naples.
Category: Europe
Fashion and Costume History of Europe.
Parisian chapeaux from present flowery month of May 1867.
Sketches of real Parisian Chapeaux on the racecourse, in the Bois de Boulogne, in the Champs-Elysées, and other promenades.
Characteristically English carpet of the time of James I, dated 1614.
The carpet is a very fine example of the time of James I. The whole design is characteristically English of the period.
Florence and Fiesole, Italy. The beauty of the Val d’Arno.
Grand Tour. Florence and Fiesole, Italy. The Rhine, Italy, and Greece in a series of drawings from nature by George Newenham.
Celtic Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts.
Facsimiles of the Miniatures and Ornaments of Anglo-Saxon and Irish Manuscripts. Polychromatic ornament by Auguste Racinet.
A new vegetable variety in 1865. The rat-tail radish in England.
In the case of the newly introduced rat’s tail or snake radish, the eatable part of the plant is the seed vessel and not the root.
Russian Enamel, Majolica, Paintings on Walls and Ceilings.
Ornamental treasures. In Russia we find enamel ornaments on gold, silver and copper still as widely distributed and as highly esteemed as in former times when they first attained their reputation.
Byzantine dalmatica. Albanian embroidery. 12th century.
Chasuble. Liturgical vestment. Albanian embroidery on a twelfth-century Byzantine dalmatica.
The ancient Greek city of Posidonia or Paestum in Magna Graecia.
Paestum is a greek ruined site recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in the Campania region in the province of Salerno in Italy.
A Mirror Case of the 14th century. The Assault of the Castle of Love.
A mediaeval mirror case. The subject is a favorite one with mediaeval artists, and is known as “The Assault of the Castle of Love.”
