A contemporary remarked that this was first and probably only time the underside of the tongue has been rendered in a sculpture For referenc...

A disused section of the Notting Hill Gate tube station in London, walled off since about 1958-59, was recently uncovered during maintenance...

Alexander Anderson, 1818 by John Wesley Jarvis. Doesn't he just look like a sensitive guy in this portrait? I am particularly fond of An...

above, two sources of names for the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names . The example directly above is a gravestone for "Zosime, daughte...

click for much larger images Oh dear, first I got waylaid with work , then technical difficulties . Herewith a quick post of my latest purch...

I read this New York Times piece about an incredible book project my friend Paul is in the midst of (that I did not know about) and I'...

cover by AM Cassandre Mies van der Rohe , noir style. The "famous German architect" was making his first visit to America. ...