Pair of sandals – Middle Kingdom – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/572162
Harkness Gift, 1920 Object Number: 20.3.209a, b Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition
Harkness Gift, 1920 Object Number: 20.3.209a, b Excavated by the Egyptian Expedition
Tunic with Dionysos and Dionysian ThemesA longer, wider version of the tunic was the ubiquitous garment of the Late Antique period. This tunic is one of four in the Museum’s collection said to be from Akhmim, an ancient weaving center and apparently a center of both pagan and Christian thought and religion
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1995. no. 31, listed p.46, ill. fig. 10
The Artist: Antonio Vivarini was a member of a family documented on the island of Murano (Venice) and Padua from the second half of the fourteenth century. His father, Michele, and the founder of the family, „Vivarinus vitruarius,“ were both glassmakers
Art in America 26 (April 1938), p. 92, ill. p. 89. Harry B. Wehle.
Turner made three trips to Venice, in the late summers of 1819, 1833, and 1840, and the present painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835, must have been painted upon his return from his second visit, presumably using his own drawings and watercolors as source materials
CCCXVII b 23) and another, of about 1840, in the British Museum (1958,0712.443).
Georg (II), Herzog von Saxe-Meiningen, Meiningen, Thuringia (by 1897–d. 1914); Bernhard (III), Herzog von Saxe-Meiningen, Meiningen (1914–d. 1928); Georg, Prinz von Saxe-Meiningen, Heldbourg, Thuringia (1928–29; sold to Douglas); [R
Jena, Germany, 1909, p. 168, ill. following p. 168.
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 35(10): p. 202.
This picture was painted in 1653 for the Sicilian nobleman Don Antonio Ruffo (1610/11–1678) and sent from Amsterdam to his palace in Messina during the summer of 1654. Ruffo was an avid collector; at his death he had 364 paintings, including a work by Van Dyck, Saint Rosalie Interceding for the Plague-stricken of Palermo, now also in The Met (Spiegel Historiael 4 (September 1969), p. 456, fig. 9. B[ob]. Haak.
From an imperial villa in Boscotrecase, near Pompeii (Santini 1905; Alexander 1929). 1903-4, excavated by Ernesto Santini from an imperial villa on his property at Boscotrecase; from 1904, collection of E
Bulletin of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 21(4), part 2: p. 11.
Havemeyer, 1929 Object Number: 29.100.32a, b Mrs. H. O. (Louisine W.)
On the back of this rectangular ivory panel, a raised rim surrounds a smooth, recessed compartment, displaying the vertical orientation of the ivory grain. The recessed field provided an area for the panel to receive a thin sheet of wax that could be used as an erasable writing surface
Les Arts 9, no. 100 (April 1910). p. 5.