Ringmaster, publicist, and performer in a highly theatrical life, the legendary Nadar wore many hats—those of journalist, bohemian, left-wing agitator, playwright, caricaturist, and aeronaut.
Early in 1854, a banker friend proposed backing Nadar in a portrait photography business
As the custom of building large temple complexes became more widespread, so did the production of images and other objects associated with ritual and worship.
prosperity of the Jain community in western India, engaged principally as merchants and bankers
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
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
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
His meticulous technique is related to that of manuscript illumination; he was most assured working on a diminutive scale, but became increasingly adept at volumetric description in larger works.
presence of the ducal court, wealthy local businessmen and foreign merchants and bankers
This exhibition tells the story of how the Museum built its comprehensive collection of Japanese art beginning in the early 1880s, when it owned just a small, eclectic array of Japanese decorative arts.
the Fletcher Fund, which was created in 1918 from the generous gift of New York banker
The Damascus Room is a residential reception chamber (qaʿa) typical of the late Ottoman period in Damascus, Syria.
Waters of the Barada River A coffeehouse in Damascus on the banks of the Barada
Pliny’s retreats slipped into the landscape with terraced gardens and opened outward to natural surroundings through colonnades, or loggias, which replaced solid enclosing walls.
of Drayton Hall (ca. 1738–42), built at the center of a rice plantation on the banks
