This illustration of an armillary sphere is from a treatise on astronomy, Sefer mareh ha-ofanim (The Appearance of the Heavenly Beings), by Solomon ben Abraham Avigdor. The treatise was mostly a…
Mendes da Costa was best known for the reliefs he sculpted for buildings in Amsterdam (many of which were figures of animals) in the style of the Niewe Kunst, the Dutch variant of Art Nouveau. But he…
Mikhail Trakhman was one of several Soviet photographers dropped behind enemy lines by Sovinformburo, the main Soviet agency for the distribution of war-related information, to report on partisans who…