EditorialPentecost. A red hexagonal enclosure of stone or brick surrounds two tall blue towers with conical brown roofs, which are joined by a red-tiled roof with a ball at each end. Under this stand the twelve apostles, with Peter holding the key in the centre...
EditorialTiled ceiling and wall in the winter-veranda, St. Hubertus Lodge, house of the Kroeller-Mueller family, Dutch industrialists and art patrons, founders of the Rijksmuseum Kroeller-Mueller in Otterloo, Netherlands. St. Hubertus Lodge built 1916.
EditorialA table from the Gallo-Roman town of Altrippe, France. The table was not used to eat from, but was a sort of sideboard, with the table leg embedded in the tiled floor up to the carved volute.
EditorialTile antefix, Roman Britain, 2nd-3rd century. This object was one of a row of ornate terminals set along the eaves of a tiled roof. It was made in the tilery of the Roman army's 20th legion, whose emblem of a wild boar decorates the plaque. It was foun...
EditorialThe kasbah (fortress) of Telouet, Morocco. The powerful caids of the berber tribe of Glaoua built many kasbahs in the mountains south of Marrakesh. Telouet was the seat of Si Thami al-Glaoui (died 1956), a power-broker between the French and the sultan...