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Egyptians were blessed not only with richly fertile agricultural land along the banks
Egyptians were blessed not only with richly fertile agricultural land along the banks
After a centuries-long history as a republic governed by elected officials, beginning in 1532 Florence found itself ruled by a succession of dukes of the Medici family—rulers imposed upon the city by the combined forces of the pope The The
masterpieces: Salviati’s painted and Cellini’s bronze portrait of the Florentine banker
Famed for his sensual nudes and charming scenes of pretty women, Auguste Renoir was a far more complex and thoughtful painter than generally assumed.
Renoir, in fact, met one of his best patrons, the banker Paul Berard, at Mme Charpentier
With minor variations, the papyrus roll was produced essentially the same way throughout its approximately 4,000-year history.
Papyrus plants are native to river banks and marshy areas as they consume great quantities
Etching offered Whistler the opportunity to sketch ideas quickly, then slowly refine and develop them through multiple states, creating variations with expressive inking.
Commercial activity along the Thames, whose banks were densely lined with warehouses
Curators Dita Amory and Alison Manges Nogueira discuss five portrait drawings from the exhibition Leonardo to Matisse: Master Drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection.
illuminated manuscripts, sculpture, textiles, and other decorative arts) that the banker
Though the earliest references to the term “Hudson River School” in the 1870s were disparagingly aimed, the label has never been supplanted and fairly characterizes the artistic body, its New York headquarters, its landscape subject matter, and often literally its subject.
1825, Cole sailed for the Catskills, making sketches there and elsewhere along the banks
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Winthrop (1864–1943) was a lawyer and banker by profession, but his true passion
The Museum’s collection of medieval and Byzantine art is among the most comprehensive in the world.
More than 250 medieval objects came to the Museum from the banker and prodigious
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
received the most important commission of his career from San Francisco’s leading banker