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The Banker’s Table William Michael Harnett 1877 The Artist’s Letter Rack William
David worked in a progressive, even enterprising, mode, casting off his late medieval heritage and proceeding with a certain purity of vision in an age of transition.
great popularity of Netherlandish paintings in Italy, wealthy Italian merchants and bankers
In addition to portraits, status symbols included sets of silver or porcelain for the service of tea, hot chocolate, and coffee.
House in Washington, D.C., the new Neoclassical federal city established on the banks
L. R. Webb, Oakland, Calif., until 1963; Nelson A. Rockefeller, New York, 1963, on loan to The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1963–1969; The Museum of Primitive Art, New York, 1969–1978
view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 354 The Kambot people live along the banks
Inscription: Inscribed in pencil on mount, recto TRC: „93“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie.“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC: „Vue du pronaos du Temple de Dandour. (Tropique du Cancer)“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BR: „No
they descended the river at leisure, exploring the archaeological sites along its banks
Saint-Quentin, France, 1886–Cannes, 1966
also acted as an art advisor and agent to Raoul La Roche, the Paris-based Swiss banker
La Chaux de Fonds, Switzerland, 1887–Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France, 1965
practitioner and theorist of Purism and as an art advisor and architect to the Swiss banker
… although Americans had begun to identify themselves as a nation, they were divided by sectional interests that deepened with rapid industrialization and the question of slavery.
Generally factories rose in the countryside next to the banks of rapidly moving streams
Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV gilded Prague’s royal towers “so that they might powerfully shine and gleam at a far distance in fair weather.”
Bohemia and then as Holy Roman Emperor, Charles set out to make his city on the banks
Inscription: Inscribed in ink on mount, recto BL: Nubie.“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BC: „Propylon du Temple de Dandour. (Tropique du Cancer)“; inscribed in ink on mount, recto BR: „No
they descended the river at leisure, exploring the archaeological sites along its banks
