The Erechtheion is an Ionic-style temple on the Acropolis in Athens, built between about 420 and 406 BC.
South-west view of the Erechtheion on the Acropolis in Athens
Earthenware from Crete and Greece. Middle and Late Minoan.
CRETE AND GREECE. Middle and Late Minoan circa 2000—1200 B.C. Vessels from Cnossus, Mochlos, Korakou, Palaikastro, Melos.
The costume worn in the late 14th or early 15th century.
History of Costume. The chaperon, cote-hardie, houppelande, liripipe, poulaines. Fashion of the middle ages.
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Specimens of wheel-locks, gun-locks of 16th, 17th, and 18th century.
European Hand Firearms of the Sixteenth Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, by Herbert J. Jackson.
A magic hand used as an amulet for averting the evil eye.
ROMAN MAGIC HAND. Amulets in ancient days were usually small charms fashioned sometimes into various shapes and suspended from a necklace.
Syria. The clothing of woman and man at the beginning of the 19th century.
Syria is a state in the Near East and part of the Mashreq. Syria borders Israel and Jordan to the south, Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north and Iraq to the east.
Armoury. Pikeman’s suit english, early 17th century.
The illustration shows a typical English pikeman’s corselet of the early seventeenth century, at a period when every infantry regiment consisted of musketeers and pikemen in varying proportions.
Nashik in India is one of the most sacred of Hindu towns.
Through this city flows the sacred river, Godavari, second in sanctity only to the Ganges itself.
Italy. Vallombrosa Abbey and the Camaldolese Order in 1905.
The Abbey of Vallombrosa is located in the village of the same name in the municipality of Reggello, in the province of Florence in the Apennines and diocese of Fiesole,… Read More
India Mogul aristocracy. The costume of ancient Mogul emperors.
The two figures shown here are of the Mogul aristocracy. Both men wear as their essential garment a peculiarly tailored coat called the “cabays”.
