… although Americans had begun to identify themselves as a nation, they were divided by sectional interests that deepened with rapid industrialization and the question of slavery.
The old Atlantic port cities—Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore—continued
obvious.[1] The modeler knew our Bellano David (cat. 2) as well as that in the Philadelphia
One of the most important engravers and print publishers of his time, [Hendrick Goltzius] is most widely known today for the Mannerist engravings that he and his workshop produced during the period between 1585 and 1589.
Cerere et Baccho friget Venus (Without Ceres and Bacchus, Venus Would Freeze) (Philadelphia
The Met presents over 5,000 years of art from around the world for everyone to experience and enjoy.
Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, is currently writing a catalogue
This parlor comes from a house built in Petersburg, Virginia, in 1811, but prominently features furniture made in New York City from the same period. Like the nearby Baltimore and Haverhill Rooms, the Benkard Room exemplifies the popularity of Robert and James Adam’s Neoclassical taste in the young United States.
market, this verre églomisé image is based on a 1796 engraving by Edward Savage of Philadelphia
Budapest, 1869–Budapest, 1934
Angeles), Pierre-August Renoir’s Henriot Family (ca. 1875; The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Like the avant-garde artists who preceded them, these contemporary artists show how wordplay can be used as a means to address larger artistic, social, and political concerns.
New York: Praeger Publishers; Philadelphia: Philadelphia Museum of Art, 1970.
Nineteenth-century American architecture and furniture design was characterized by a parade of different styles that purported to take their inspiration from the design vocabulary of the past.
The Philadelphia Centennial Exposition of 1876 was instrumental in bringing beautifully
Strasbourg, France, 1890–Sunlife, N.H., 1967
organized many traveling exhibitions of Guggenheim’s collection (Charleston, 1936; Philadelphia
