Hellenistic kings became prominent patrons of the arts, commissioning public works of architecture and sculpture, as well as private luxury items that demonstrated their wealth and taste.
and cultural exchanges, and the greater mobility of goldsmiths and silversmiths, led
Georgian design, which was characterized by an adherence to theories of order, symmetry, and proportion drawn from classical models during the Renaissance, represented a significant departure from earlier English decorative traditions.
ruins, followed by their publication and wide circulation in books and prints, led
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model; the “Futura" guitar owned by blues guitarist Ponty Gonzalez around 1956 that led
After several centuries of obscurity and even loss of independence from around 1400 B.C., Assyria’s fortunes revived in the reign of Ashur-uballit I.
Struggles for the throne led to the king’s assassination and a series of short-lived
By the middle of the third millennium B.C., cuneiform primarily written on clay tablets was used for a vast array of economic, religious, political, literary, and scholarly documents.
dominated by large temple estates whose need for accounting and disbursing of revenues led
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its Golden Age, under the emperor Justinian, the wealth and power of Byzantium led
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This quest for metals—copper, tin, silver, and gold—was the driving force that 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
Adam was the first monumental classical nude carved following antiquity; prudery led
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