A hundred years ago, The Met acquired a comprehensive collection of prints by the celebrated artist Albrecht Dürer. This fall, the Museum celebrates Dürer by showing his prints in four exhibitions at The Met Fifth Avenue.
Met acquired a comprehensive collection of prints that had been amassed by the banker
Egyptians were blessed not only with richly fertile agricultural land along the banks
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were often threatened by periodic floods when river water levels overflowed its banks
Despite his unconventional training, Watteau was permitted to compete for the Prix de Rome at the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture.
sixteenth-century Italian artists in the collection of Pierre Crozat (1665–1740), a wealthy banker
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
Revival Library This library comes from a red-brick Gothic Revival villa built for banker
During the earliest years of European expansion onto the American continents, the search for gold was one of the driving factors in the exploration and colonization of the vast lands.
The Santa Maria was firmly stuck on the banks of an island that Columbus named Española
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
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
