This panel and a scene showing the Flagellation of Christ (The Met 2001.216.2) come from a large dismantled retable probably made for the high altar of the former Collegiate Church (Kollegiatstift) of Sankt Maria und Sankt Georg, now the Neustädter Marienkirche, in Bielefeld
B.] Nordhoff. "Die Soester Malerei unter Meister Conrad."
This work is a large fragment of one of three altarpieces El Greco was commissioned to paint in 1608 for the church of the Hospital of Saint John the Baptist (also called the Tavera Hospital in honor of its co-founder, Cardinal-Archbishop Juan de Tavera, 1472–1545), just outside the walls of Toledo
Manuel B. CossÃo. El Greco.
B[arr]., Jr. Henri-Matisse: Retrospective Exhibition.
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.
Cup (no. 65.172.1) and Beaker (no. 1974.45)Inevitably, the immediate models used by Iranian glassmakers following the advent of Islam came from their Sasanian heritage, which in turn had developed from a centuries-long distinctive and individual artistic tradition in the geographical area of Greater Iran
Donald B. Harden, K. S. Painter, Ralph H. Pinder-Wilson, and Hugh Tait.
Prince Antonin Juritzky, also known as Alfred Juritzky-Warberg, Vienna or Schloss Gablitz, near Vienna (in 1923); [Nicholas A. Karger, until 193(?); sold to Kleinberger]; [Kleinberger, Paris and New York, until 1934; sold to Wildenstein]; [Wildenstein, New York, 1934–41; sold to The Met]
Harry B. Wehle. "A Painting of the Fontainebleau School."
The Artist: For a biography of Jan van Eyck, see the Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History.The Paintings: In unusually tall, narrow paintings, the Crucifixion and Last Judgment emphasize the narrative features of these well-known biblical themes prophesied in Isaiah and related in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John for the Crucifixion, and in Deuteronomy and the Book of Revelation for the Last Judgment
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New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, p. 19 fig..
New York Times (November 20, 2021), ill. p. C1 (color, installation view).
This composition, in which half-length figures of the three magi are viewed behind a fictive arcade, offering their gifts to the Christ Child—an event celebrated in the Church as the Feast of Epiphany (January 6)—conforms to the rising popularity in the Netherlands for close-up devotional paintings that put the viewer in a direct relationship with the event depicted
Harry B. Wehle. "Seventy-Five Years Ago."
