How a fashion icon came to define the aesthetic of the “Harlem dandy”
Growing up in Philadelphia in the 1980s and ’90s, I cannot say I knew who Dapper
Inscription: Signed and inscribed: (lower center) NICOLAVS·ZAFVRI·PINXIT·; (top, in Greek) [Christ] being dragged to the cross; (beside Christ’s head, in Greek) Jesus Christ; (right, on banner) SPQR
catalogue of his arms and armor collection. 1920–25 [original in Kienbusch library, Philadelphia
Mihrab (Prayer Niche)This prayer niche, or mihrab, was originally an architectural element in a theological school (madrasa) in the city of Isfahan. An inscription in the courtyard of this former school, now known as Madrasa Imami, is dated to the year A
Shipped to Philadelphia and stored in the University Museum there, it also spent
Exh. cat., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Minneapolis. 1993, cat. no. 40, fig. no. 40
A graduate intern travels to Turkey to do research for the exhibition and discovers the multivalent nature of the exhibition objects.
conversation about the art of writing Lesley Ma February 28 Video Considering the Philadelphia
Alfred Stieglitz, photographer, publisher, gallerist, and impresario, made unparalleled contributions to the introduction of modern art in America and gave unequivocal support to young American modernist painters.
Institute of Chicago, Fisk University, the National Gallery of Art, Yale University, Philadelphia
Glass was present in nearly every aspect of daily life—from a lady’s morning toilette to a merchant’s afternoon business dealings to the evening cena, or dinner.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum, 1999. Grose, David.
Keith Christiansen takes a closer look at some of the objects in the Museum’s recently acquired Jabach portrait.
not on Amtrak (3 hours late out of NY going back to MA due to track problems in Philadelphia
The Artist: One of the leading painters in mid-fourteenth century Italy, Giovanni da Milano was trained in Lombardy, where he developed a style of soft delicacy and precise observation of the natural world
Johnson Collection and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
International 19 (November 20, 1975), pp. 13–14, ill., asserts that "The Large Bathers" (Philadelphia
