Florine Stettheimer – The Cathedrals of Art – The Metropolitan Museum of Art https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/488732
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.
Beneath a curiously distended double arch of the nave of a church illuminated with bottle glass windows, the Virgin demurely extends her hand, on which a bearded Joseph places a ring rendered in raised, gilded pastiglia—the same technique used for the collar of the officiating priest and for the haloes decorated with pseudo-Kufic lettering
Brussels, 1938, p. 73. Francis Henry Taylor. "The Maitland F.
This exhibition combines drawings, prints, and objects from all over Europe and the United States as they were collected by the Metropolitan Museum over a period of more than a hundred years.
finest Parisian furniture in order to decide how best to decorate his new palace in Brussels
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Decorative Arts Vanessa Boschloos PhD, Archaeology and Art Studies, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
This parlor comes from a house built in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1811, but prominently features furniture made in New York City from the same period. Like the nearby Baltimore and Haverhill Rooms, the Benkard Room exemplifies the popularity of Robert and James Adam’s Neoclassical taste in the young United States.
the Benkard Room, the handmade carpet was reproduced as loom-woven looped-pile Brussels
Giovanni de Lutero, known as Dosso Dossi, painted this landscape with figures soon after becoming court artist to Duke Alfonso I d’Este of Ferrara, where the artist arrived by July 1513. The subject is generally given as the Three Ages of Man, analogous to Titian’s well-known painting of the subject (National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh), with „youth“ represented by the youngsters who watch the amorous couple, who in turn represent „maturity“, while the two men in the background symbolize „old age“
Brussels, 2019, p. 181.
This work is usually identified as depicting Marius’s victory over the invading Cimbrian Gauls at Vercellae, in Lombardy, an event that took place in 101 B.C. It is from a series of ten monumental canvases of scenes from Roman history that Tiepolo painted for the grand reception room of the Palazzo Dolfin in Venice
Brussels, 1910, p. 38 n. 1, notes that he saw the paintings still in place in 1870
The Artist: Antonio Vivarini was a member of a family documented on the island of Murano (Venice) and Padua from the second half of the fourteenth century. His father, Michele, and the founder of the family, „Vivarinus vitruarius,“ were both glassmakers
IX 17; Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 9039, Brussels 1898; Ambrogio Taegio, O.P
Brussels, 2013, p. 195, suggest that the canvas came from a batch the artist received
The Painting: A man with a mustache and closed eyes is depicted in profile from the waist up, lying in a bed. He wears what appears to be a sort of turban and open white shirt, with the weight of his head and elbows forming a deep lozenge-shaped impression in the ample pillow and bedding
Massacre of the Innocents François Joseph Navez (Belgian, Charleroi 1787–1869 Brussels