THE personal Napoleon, the Napoleon of private and social life, loved the world’s finer things.
Napoleon Bonaparte attired in a Royal Tailored sack suit.
Examples Floriated Ornament, by Augustus Pugin.
Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin (1812-1852) is considered one of the most important representatives of the Gothic Revival.
Coral reef of the Red Sea at El Tor in the Sinai.
System of corals. Arabian corals. Family tree corals. Marine animals of the coral reef.
Directoire costume of the secretary of the executive comitee.
Directoire exécutif in his ordinary costume. He accompanies the Directoire to all public and private meetings.
The apotheosis of Augustus.
Apotheosis was the name for a ceremony performed by the Romans to admit emperors, empresses or other mortals to the ranks of the gods or heroes.
Arab tent camp near El Tor, Egypt in the Sinai.
Arabian corals: an excursion to the coral reefs of the Red Sea
Taira no Tadanori military commander of Japan.
Taira no Tadanori was a military commander of the Heike clan during the Heian period.
An actor of the Noh in full costume. Kagekiyo. Japan.
Kagekiyo. This plate illustrates well the voluminous nature of the medieval ceremonial garments.
Champlevé and Cloisonne enamel. Japan 16th-18th c.
Examples of Japanese Enamel of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries are extremely rare, and are accordingly highly prized by collectors of Japanese art.
Temple gardens of Japan
Of all the gardens in Japan, the temple garden is a peaceful, secluded place, reminiscent of ancient Japan and times gone by.