Meintest du europã ischen union?
Following renovation, 500 sub-Saharan African works highlight major movements—one-fourth on view for the first time—spanning the Middle Ages to today.
eighteenth century, the monarchs of Dahomey (or Danhomé) claimed descent from the union
Discover the fascinating history behind these enigmatic objects.
The ancient Greeks explained this through the mythical� union of the nymph Salmacis
The Worsham-Rockefeller Dressing Room is among the most elaborate and best-preserved interiors from late-19th-century New York City.
After fighting for the Union in the American Civil War, Schastey worked for several
Turner made three trips to Venice, in the late summers of 1819, 1833, and 1840, and the present painting, exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1835, must have been painted upon his return from his second visit, presumably using his own drawings and watercolors as source materials
Art-Union 9 (July 1, 1847), p. 253. John Ruskin.
When this panel was in the Kann and Havemeyer collections, it was highly regarded as a Rembrandt. The picture held its place in Rembrandt catalogues through Valentiner’s unreliable corpus of 1931, after which the work was dropped from scholarly discussions for fifty years
Union League Club.
This group of five ivory panels are the reassembled elements of a „composite casket,“ so called by scholars because the narrative scenes that adorn them are vignettes from a variety of popular stories and chivalric romances
Paris: Réunion des Musées Nationaux, 1998. no. 101, pp. 159, 165–66.
This library comes from a red-brick Gothic Revival villa built for banker Frederick Deming (1787–1860) and his family in the hamlet of Balmville, New York. The house is a classic example of the Gothic Revival style in domestic architecture and the room is arranged to illustrate how an upper-middle-class family might have furnished their library.
Equitable Insurance Company, and in 1840 he was elected as the president of the Union
Research Assistant Jeffrey Fraiman sits down with scholar James M. Saslow to discuss Michelangelo’s practice as a poet, the meaning of his gift drawings, and the study of the artist’s homoeroticism since his death in 1564.
Michelangelo was always torn between the desire for passionate union with another
The Picture: A vase of flowers stands on a stone socle, its contents spilling forth from the surrounding alcove. Visible on the heavily shadowed vase, perhaps made of terracotta or gilt bronze, are the plump figure of a reclining putto, vegetable ornamentation, and a grotesque face
Union League Club.
Mosque LampLarge and impressive glass lamps such as this one in the shape of footed vases with enameled decoration and suspension rings attached around their body were commissioned by sultans and members of their court for mosques, madrasas (Qur’anic schools), tombs, hospices, and other public buildings in 14th-century Mamluk Cairo
light was my splendor.[9] The lighting of the niche thus becomes a metaphor for the union
