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Charles Le Brun – The Sacrifice of Polyxena – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/442761

The canvas is signed and dated 1647, a year after Charles Le Brun, the future premier peintre du roi under Louis XIV, returned to Paris from a period of study in Rome. In Paris, where he had been the pupil of François Perrier and spent time in the workshop of Simon Vouet, his work had caught the attention of Nicolas Poussin, who had returned to the French capital to work for the king in 1640
Gallery 622 As recounted by the ancient Roman poet Ovid, a compliant Polyxena is led

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Art and Death in Medieval Byzantium – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Virgin’s peaceful falling asleep in death, combined with Christ’s tender embrace of her soul—represented in Byzantine art as a swaddled infant —rendered an ideal image, one in which the Virgin’s soul was conveyed to heaven immediately upon her death.
Christians believed in the soul’s gradual separation from the earthly body after dying, led

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Violin Makers: Nicolò Amati (1596–1684) and Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737) – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Amati workshop was one of the finest violin ateliers in Europe, training many apprentices who went on to careers as important instrument builders, possibly including the young Antonio Stradivari.
playing for dance, but the more refined tone and appearance of Cremonese violins led

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Francesco Colonna – Hypnerotomachia Poliphili – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/365313

Inscription: Inscription in graphite inside front cover [in William Ivins hand?]: „ex coll. Richard Bennett (Manchester, Eng.) pur. 1896 – pur. J.P.M 1906 / copy of Canevarium binding probably by Hagué / perfect except leaf of errata in facim / See J
The beauty of these anonymous woodcuts has led scholars, through the years, to associate

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