The New York Dutch Room is a main chamber, or groote kaner in Dutch, and comes from a house built in 1751 for Daniel Pieter Winne, whose ancestors moved to Rensselaerswyck from Flanders via Curacao in 1643.
The extensive trade which [they] carry on, and their sparing manner of living, in
This exhibition follows the artistic traditions of the southern provinces of the Byzantine Empire from the seventh century to the ninth, as they were transformed from being central to the Byzantine tradition to being a critical part of the Islamic world.
depictions were carefully removed and reassembled in a scrambled or transformed manner
55.121.10.7 verso–CalligraphyBy its scribe [i.e., Mir-‚Ali]One with the eyes of gazelleshunted the bird of my heart,Robbed me of steadfastness,robbed me, poor lover, of rest
paintings, the quality of sure and supple brushstrokes and similarities in the manner
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
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
In one remarkable decade, Sargent gained acclaim with bold portraits and figure paintings that challenged artistic conventions.
controversial Parisienne (or worse, an American interloper) who challenged the 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
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
