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
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
International 19 (November 20, 1975), pp. 13–14, ill., asserts that "The Large Bathers" (Philadelphia
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
Claude drew inspiration from his close, constant study of nature and changing effects of light.
His earliest dated canvas is a pastoral subject painted in 1629 (Philadelphia Museum
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
Exh. cat., Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Minneapolis. 1993, cat. no. 40, fig. no. 40
