Tombak – Iranian (Persian) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/501876
Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown ; Clark Collection Sally B.
Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown ; Clark Collection Sally B.
Pair of DoorsAccording to Museum files, the findspot for these doors was the town of Takrit in north-central Iraq. Researchers, however, have deduced that local residents in modern times had brought them there for reuse from the ruins of Samarra, a site located on the east bank of the Tigris, about seventy-eight miles (125 km) north of Baghdad
Dimand 1932, p. 135. 2.
Furniture Credit Line: Purchase, Wendy Fisher Gift, 2021 Object Number: 2021.280a, b
Austin, 2015, p. 18, ill. p. 19 (color).
Kozloff, Arielle P., Betsy Bryan, and Lawrence Michael Berman 1992.
Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1931 Object Number: 31.3.35a, b Museum excavations, 1929
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989, p
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1989, p. 85, fig. 75.
The Artist: Giotto is the key figure of Western painting. His emphasis on solidly described figures and his exploration of a rational pictorial space set the course of European art for the next five hundred years
B. B. "The Adoration of the Kings by a Pupil of Giotto."
Paris: Henri Laurens, 1929. p. 326. Rorimer, James J.
When this panel was in the Kann and Havemeyer collections, it was highly regarded as a Rembrandt. The picture held its place in Rembrandt catalogues through Valentiner’s unreliable corpus of 1931, after which the work was dropped from scholarly discussions for fifty years
sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 18, 1868, no. 11, for Fr 55,000 to Narischkine); B.