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Varvara Nikolaevna was born on July 7, 1762. The daughter of Prince Nikolai Mikhailovich Golitsyn (1727–1787) and Princess Ekaterina Aleksandrovna Golovina (1728–1769), she married Prince Sergei Sergeyevich Gagarin (1745–1798)
Greuze French ca. 1780–82 On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 631 Led
Karl Anton Prinz von Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen(inv. no. 5236); Baron Robert von Hirsch, Frankfurt and Basel (until 1977); his sale, Sotheby’s, London(22 June 1978, lot 267); [ Michael Ward, New York (sold 1996)]
an Eagle Attacking a Hare ca. 1100–1200 Game Piece with the Blinded Samson Led
By the 1780s the sweeping curves of the late Baroque and the exuberant ornament of the Rococo were giving way to a renewed interest in classical precedents, which found expression in the delicate, rectilinear forms of the Neoclassical, or Federal, style.
Led by members of the Townsend and Goddard families, Newport cabinetmakers developed
The Orient—including present-day Turkey, Greece, the Middle East, and North Africa—exerted its allure on the Western artist’s imagination centuries prior to the turn of the nineteenth century.
In 1798, a French army led by General Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt and occupied
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Opening May 31, 2025, following a multiyear renovation led by WHY Architecture in
Câmpina, Romania, 1893–Bucharest, 1946, and Brăila, Romania, 1895–Bucharest, 1971
of the ideological thaw that took place in the country in the 1960s (which also led
Breslau, Poland, 1889–New York, 1945
As the Great Depression led to a decline in the Parisian art market throughout the
Adam was the first monumental classical nude carved following antiquity; prudery led
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
he has appeared as expert lecturer in several documentaries and films, and has led
