Dein Suchergebnis zum Thema: Liverpool

Shaker Retiring Room | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/collection-areas/the-american-wing/period-rooms/shaker-room

This room has been installed with architectural elements from a Retiring Room in the North Family Dwelling at Mount Lebanon, New York. Mount Lebanon was a religious community established by the United Society of Believers in the Second Appearing of Christ, also known as the „Shakers.“ The Retiring Room served as both a bedroom and place to retire to „in silence, for the space of half an hour, and labor for a sense of the gospel, before attending meeting.“
United States In 1774, Ann Lee and eight members of the Shakers traveled from Liverpool

    Kategorien:
  • Wissen
  • International
Seite melden

Paulus Bor – The Disillusioned Medea – The Metropolitan Museum of Art

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/435713

This painting, one of Bor’s finest works, dates from about 1640. Its subject and its relationship to a similar picture in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, have been debated, but it is likely that the two canvases were painted as a pair and depict the complementary stories of the disillisioned Medea and Cydippe with Acontius’s apple (see fig
that the same brocade material is seen in Bor’s „Magdalen“ (Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool

    Kategorien:
  • Wissen
  • International
Seite melden