This large and imposing room has been referred to as the Alexandria Ballroom. Intended to host public assemblies and elegant balls, it was originally located on the second floor of the City Hotel, built in 1792 in Alexandria, Virginia.
Lafayette returned to the United States in July of 1824 to embark on a year-long, nation-wide
Contrary to popular views about precolonial Africa, local manufacturers were at this time creating items of comparable, if not superior, quality to those from preindustrial Europe.
Chokwe peoples 19th–20th century Trade among European and African precolonial nations
Monstrous Beauty unites 200 works from 16th-century Europe to today, showcasing Asian and Asian American women artists in a fresh chinoiserie dialogue.
, and the dangerous: the same descriptions were applied to Chinese laborers the nation
The Essential Art of African Textiles, Design Without End
awarded the title Member of the British Empire in recognition of his service to the nation
Discover the rich history of printmaking in Mexico and the The Met’s collecting of these prints.
to adorn public buildings with murals that celebrated the forging of the Mexican nation
Following renovation, 500 sub-Saharan African works highlight major movements—one-fourth on view for the first time—spanning the Middle Ages to today.
That nation, Liberia, expanded its territorial claims, exacting taxation and suppressing
Description of the China: Through the Looking Glass galleries
color is so strongly associated with China that it has come to stand in for the nation
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
the Blacks Mtume Umoja Ensemble Wabembe 1972 Horizon Sun Ra 1972/2020 It’s Nation
Boilly was born and educated around Lille. He moved to Paris in 1785 and exhibited at the Salon between 1791 and 1824. A painter in the tradition of Dutch seventeenth-century naturalism, for which he prepared by studying trompe l’œil as well as caricature, Boilly was well-known for genre scenes and for small-scale portraits, of which he claimed to have painted 4,500, most in single two-hour sittings
Charles Ritchie in Art for the Nation: Collecting for a New Century.
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Francis du Pont In the late fifteenth century, Portugal became the first European nation
