The Artist: Ambrosius Benson is most noted as a North Italian painter who went to study and work in Bruges. As a result, his works are a unique conflation of Netherlandish and Italian Renaissance styles
He proposed the Lamentation by Gerard David (Philadelphia Museum of Art) as the prototype
Benedetta Cappa Marinetti, Rome (1950–56; sold in November 1956 to Winston); Lydia and Harry Lewis Winston, Birmingham, Mich. (1956–his d. 1966); Lydia Winston Malbin, Detroit and New York (1966–d
Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Since the acquisition of exotic creatures was very expensive, they would often be sent to menageries or zoological gardens around Rome to be tamed and trained for public entertainment before they reached the games, where death was inevitable.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005.
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images of his friends and his Portrait of Frances Sherborne Ridley Watts (1877, Philadelphia
1913-1914, said to be found in the Danube region (Rostovtzeff 1931, p. 534); before 1918, bought by Baron Jenő (Eugen) Kohner (1876-1918) from a Budapest antiquarian; [by 1931, with Dr. Simon Meller]; [1935, bought by Joseph Brummer from Dr
New York, The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Philadelphia
Greek Art: A Study of the Formal Evolution of Style. pp. 43–6, fig. 6, Philadelphia
Art has a unique way of bringing complicated facts to life. What can it tell us about the multiple histories of two continents over several centuries? Visit the American Wing.
Silver in New England Caribbean mahogany in Philadelphia Carolina porcelain Sedge
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
exhibition included, among others, the Portrait of Pope Pius VII and Cardinal Caprara (Philadelphia
Greek settlers and the Scythian peoples around them profoundly impacted each other’s culture and art for centuries.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archeology and Anthropology, 2008
All three grew up or trained or lived at various points in their lives in Harlem, and participated in the community in important ways.
Bearden studied outside of Harlem as well, first at Lincoln College near Philadelphia
