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For artist Kerry James Marshall (American, b. 1955), writing in a foreword for a

Portrait of the Elephant ‚Alam KamanThe famous elephant immortalized here fell into the hands of the army led by Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan (r. 1627–58), during the Mughal campaign to annex the maharana of Mewar’s territories
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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. Cossío. El Greco.

New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930. no. 19, p. 10, ill. pl.

Buenos Aires: Ediciones Centurion, 1947. p. 448.

The Artist: Simon Vouet (see fig. 1 above) is one of a number of major artists, among whom are Jusepe de Ribera, Valentin de Boulogne, Gerrit van Honthorst, and Bartolomeo Manfredi, who worked in Rome in the immediate aftermath of Caravaggio’s death and absorbed his dramatic treatment of expressive lighting, startling naturalism, and psychologically penetrating approach to narrative subjects
Chilton Jr., and Sally and Howard Lepow Gifts; Charles B.

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.

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.

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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