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Situating the works within a larger social context, this overdue look at female-led
In this painting, the Madonna and Child are flanked by Saint Francis to the left, shown in the gray habit of the Franciscan order and holding the cross within his stigmata-marked hand, and Saint Jerome to the right, attired in the red robes of a cardinal, signifying his service to Pope Damasus I (305–384 CE)
The individual quality of the figure led Bernard Berenson to hypothesize that this
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Bacchante and Infant Faun, a work most frequently associated with the scandal that led
Occasionally, the close scrutiny of early Netherlandish paintings yields quite another finding—that portraits of figures, and sometimes figures in their entirety, were reworked or initially painted by a different hand.
same period (that is, the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries) has often led
Stand for a Qur’an Manuscript (Rahla) A masterpiece of design, this carved book stand, or rahla, is made from a single slab of teak and is framed by inlays composed of various woods in shades of brown and black
century onward, the increasing polarization of the Sunni and Shi‘a communities led
apprenticeship in 1927 with the renowned Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi led
The Renaissance Revival Room comes from the „princely mansion“ built for Jedediah Wilcox and his wife Henrietta. This fashionable rear parlor, or sitting room, with its coordinating architectural details and richly ornamented decoration, includes its original suite of furniture.
The citizens of Meriden, led by their mayor, attempted to rescue the mansion with
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–led occupation following World War II, considering the perspective of Japanese artists
This is an early work by Alessandro Bonvicino, known as Moretto da Brescia, who, along with Girolamo Romanino, was the dominant painter in the city of Brescia (then in the westernmost area of Venice’s mainland empire) in the first half of the sixteenth century
20 Not on view According to biblical text, following his baptism, Christ was led
The Artist: Maso di Banco is one of the great figures of fourteenth-century Italian painting. Although his career is poorly documented, he is mentioned in Filippo Villani’s lives of famous Florentines (composed ca
The presence of the Franciscan Anthony of Padua has led to the suggestion that the
