Moretto’s last major work, this altarpiece was commissioned by the Brescian confraternity known as the Disciplina di San Giovanni Evangelista for their oratory adjacent to the church of the same name
B[attista]. Cavalcaselle.
Responsive to the cutting of fine detail, it enables carvers to achieve great artistic and emotional expressiveness in a highly compressed format.
of the hollow end were used for vessels such as tankards and cups ( 10.212.2a,b)
Bidri Water Pipe BaseOf the small number of known bidri objects that predate the eighteenth century, a majority are huqqa (water pipe) bases. Tobacco arrived in India sometime in the late sixteenth century, brought by the Portuguese from the New World to the port of Goa
(b/w). Welch, Stuart Cary. India! Art and Culture 1300–1900.
Pierpont Morgan, 1917 Object Number: 17.190.352a, b From the Church of Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche
Pair of DoorsThis pair of doors once belonged to a minbar and most probably came from the base of its stairs.[1] An elaborate geometric design centered on twelve-pointed stars arranged in staggered rows decorates the front of the doors, which are constructed of rosewood
New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1930. pp. 99–100, ill. fig. 44 (b/w).
This collection comprises audio recordings of the five panel discussions from the Harlem on the Mind of Its People symposium in 1969, held in conjunction with the exhibition Harlem on My Mind.
Stokely, District Leader; Charles B.
Rorimer, James J., and Margaret B. Freeman.
This is one of a very few works that may be attributed to Berlinghiero based on analogies of style with a Crucifix in the Museo di Villa Guinigi, Lucca, that is signed „Berlingherius me pinxit.“ The painter—a key figure in the history of Tuscan painting—was from Volterra and is first documented in 1228 together with his two sons Barone and Bonaventura, both of whom, together with a third son, Marco, also became painters
Edward B. Garrison.
With the rise of the transatlantic trade through the seventeenth into nineteenth centuries, ivory became among the most valuable African natural resources desired by Western industry.
merchants engaged in trade along the Loango Coast of west-central Africa ( 1993.382a,b)
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