It became more profitable for artists to produce items for the open market than to be tied to the workshops of the low-paying court.
Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1980. Goodwin, Godfrey.
While attempts at official union between the churches were not wholly successful, compromise and exchange were widespread in the arts.
Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, 1960.
London, 1892–Castello di Montegufoni, Italy, 1969
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The Painting: This very unusual mixed-media picture shows a rehearsal for a ballet. The view is from a slightly elevated point above the orchestra pit; the scrolls of two double basses are just visible in the foreground, radically cropped at the bottom of the canvas
Washington, 1984, pp. 36–37, 44, 55, 127 n. 6, fig. 1.9, dates it about 1872.
Washington, D. C. Corcoran Gallery of Art.
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Library & Museum and worked as a paper conservation fellow at the National Gallery in Washington
In 1856, a seventeen-year-old named Adeline Harris (1839-1931) conceived of a unique project: to collect the autographs of the well-known people she most esteemed. This, in itself, was not unusual; the practice of collecting autographs of famous people was very popular in the middle decades of the nineteenth century
According to the family account and her obituary, her father brought the family to Washington
Portrait of the Elephant ‚Alam KamanThe famous elephant immortalized here fell into the hands of the army led by Prince Khurram, the future Shah Jahan (r. 1627–58), during the Mughal campaign to annex the maharana of Mewar’s territories
Washington, D.C., New York, and Oxford, 1999.pp. 156–57. 2.
Pierre-François Percy, Baron de l’Empire, Paris (until d. 1825; sold with the Percy collection of 529 arms and armors, for Fr. 60,000, to Durand); Edmé-Antoine Durand, Paris (1825–30; Armures et Armes diverses composant la collection formée originairement par feu M
Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
JugMade from transparent yellowish colorless glass, this jug has a rounded body narrowed at the base of the neck and a flared opening. It stands on a low foot ring with a pontil mark at the base, and a handle with a thumb rest is attached at the rim and body
the present object with a tenth-century gold ewer in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington
