Weapons and Armor

Weapons and ArmorA misericorde is a medieval poniard or dagger made for one purpose to give the coup de grace or killing stroke. It was a beautiful, deadly instrument with a graphic mission; its very shape and cut graphically manifest its age and those who used it. Weapons throughout history chronicle ages, styles, and approaches to life and death; for artists, a weapons archive is a pictorial arsenal of powerful imagery. Here is such an arsenal: over 1,400 copyright

Doré's illustrations depict the passion and grandeur of Dante's masterpiece in such famous scenes as the embarkation of the souls for hell

class antagonisms

especially on the history of ancient Greek mathematics

pattern recognition

floated women in mid-air

” Throughout the book he defines and illustrates typical chess mistakes

Gamow recounts a wealth of revealing personal anecdotes which give a warm human dimension to many giants of 20th-century physics

books on wall hangings

ginger rogers

is not immediate

one-time president of the Gourmet Society of New York

Over 100 illustrations