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coincidentally, Braque and Picasso displayed their musical instruments in this manner
This picture and its pendant (1970.134.2) formed a series of possibly five panels illustrating the life of Saint John the Baptist
pictures in The Met visible with infrared reflectography (see figs. 1–3 above): The manner
On view May 9 through August 5, 2007, the exhibition explores the Paul Poiret’s modernity in relation to and as an expression of the dominant discourses of the early twentieth century, including Cubism, Classicism, Orientalism, Symbolism, and Primitivism.
In his typically sybaritic manner, however, Poiret tended to conflate Western and
This work is usually identified as depicting the bloody capture of Carthage by Publius Cornelius Scipio, an event that took place in 146 B.C. It is from a series of ten monumental canvases of scenes from Roman history that Tiepolo painted for the grand reception room of the Palazzo Dolfin in Venice
What makes these pictures so compelling as works of art is the manner in which Roman
Designed as an integral feature of the Museum, the gardens have been a major attraction of The Cloisters since its opening in 1938, enhancing both the setting in which the Museum’s collection of medieval art is displayed and the visitor’s understanding of medieval life.
Persicaria amplexicaulis ‚Firetail‘ — Mountain Fleece* Physostegia virginiana ‚Pink Manners
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
Obviously the artist conveys these ideas in the most understated manner, which is
This room, installed in gallery 724, comes from a townhouse for the Baltimore, Maryland, merchant and shipowner Henry Craig (1767–1832). Although it served as the Craig family’s parlor, the Museum has furnished the space as a dining room since the American Wing opened in 1924
management espoused prescribed menus, seating arrangements, service practices, manners
The Portrait: The identities of the painter and sitter have long been debated, and while the painter remains uncertain, the noblewoman is now generally considered to be Isabella of Portugal (1397–1472), third wife of Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy
Given the close-up manner and static pose in which the unfinished Virgin and Child
The archaeology of rubbish.
And only then you can start with the problem of acquiring it in a serious manner.
