Berlin, 1901‒Berlin, 1937
fourth child of the Jewish entrepreneur Louis Cassirer and his wife Emilie (born Schiffer
Attribution, Date, and Bruegel’s Working Methods: When The Met acquired The Harvesters in 1919, the extraordinarily low sale price in part had to do with the art market that had virtually collapsed during World War I
Mittagspause im Schatten eines Baumes während sich Leute in der Ferne amüsieren und Schiffe
By 1850, the prospect of bronze casting in the United States had taken on added symbolism—a medium that reflected America’s growing confidence and ambition as a world power while at the same time proclaiming its artistic independence from European sculptural models and materials.
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Shaker communities were largely self-sufficient: in their attempt to separate themselves from the outside world and to create a heaven-on-earth, members grew their own food, constructed their own buildings, and manufactured their own tools and household furnishings.
Atglen, PA: Schiffer, 2003. Rieman, Timothy D., and Jean M. Burks.
Recalling the Old English word fabrile (hand-wrought), Tiffany named the blown glass from his furnaces Favrile, a trademark that signified glass of hand-made and unique quality.
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The Artist: One of the great figures of seventeenth-century painting, Giovanni Francesco Barbieri was born in the town of Cento, not far from Ferrara. His nickname, Guercino—literally, “the little crossed-eyed�—derives from an eye defect evident in portraits of the artist
to humanistic culture have been brilliantly explicated in a key essay by Sybille Ebert-Schifferer
