Câmpina, Romania, 1893–Bucharest, 1946, and Brăila, Romania, 1895–Bucharest, 1971
country in the 1960s (which also led to a cultural rapprochement with certain Western nations
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
sixteenth century, a new art emerged in Europe that reflected the individuality of the nations
The daguerreotype process, employing a polished silver-plated sheet of copper, was the dominant form of photography for the first twenty years of picture making in the United States.
Brady opened his first studio in 1844 and set himself the task of photographing the nation
Like Orientalist subjects in nineteenth-century painting, exoticism in the decorative arts and interior decoration was associated with fantasies of opulence and “barbaric splendour.”
were being produced in their factories, they exalted the arts of preindustrialized nations
Traditional Art of the African Nations in the Museum of Primitive Art.
With growing assurance, architects in northern France, and soon all over Europe, competed in a race to conquer height.
before 1477 “Then arose new architects who after the manner of their barbarous nations
By the middle of the third millennium B.C., cuneiform primarily written on clay tablets was used for a vast array of economic, religious, political, literary, and scholarly documents.
much as international road signs can easily be interpreted by drivers from many nations
Traditional Art of the African Nations in the Museum of Primitive Art.
This exhibition celebrates the foresight underlying the establishment of the Michael C. Rockefeller Wing through some fifty works of art augmented by archival documents.
The scion of one of the nation’s most significant philanthropic families, Rockefeller
Organized only a few years after many African nations gained independence, this ambitious
