Meintest du wilden westen?
By the mid-nineteenth century, art devoted to Shakespeare was an international phenomenon.
1779 and became an enthusiastic academician and promoter of Shakespeare, devising wild
Expertly cast and gilded with foil, it represents a bird-headed hero grappling with a wild
Art of the First Cities surveys the evolution of art and culture in the land between the rivers Tigris and Euphrates and their impact on the emerging cities of the ancient world—from the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean across Central Asia and along the Gulf to the Indus Valley—during one of the most seminal and creative periods in history.
demonstrate the cultural interaction that united regions over the vast expanse of western
Creative risks. Artistic choices. Leaps of imagination and ventures for profit. The Met’s wide-ranging collection of British art and design from 1500 to 1900 captures a bold, entrepreneurial spirit and complex social and political history. The objects within embody a Both As
Colonial development advanced in North America and the West Indies, where native
The Van Rensselaer Hall was one of the largest and most elaborate rooms built in prerevolutionary America. The rare hand-painted English wallpaper and the magnificently carved woodwork create an elegant American Wing gallery.
jewels and precious stones, Van Rensselaer was a member of the privately owned Dutch West
A pendant to the official cults of the Greeks and Romans, mystery cults served more personal, individualistic attitudes toward death and the afterlife.
F 308 ca. 340–330 BCE Wall painting from the west wall of Room L of the Villa of
Democratic Republic of the Congo, between the Sankuru and Lubilash rivers in the west
This composition, in which half-length figures of the three magi are viewed behind a fictive arcade, offering their gifts to the Christ Child—an event celebrated in the Church as the Feast of Epiphany (January 6)—conforms to the rising popularity in the Netherlands for close-up devotional paintings that put the viewer in a direct relationship with the event depicted
In the early sixteenth century, Antwerp was the economic hub of western Europe.
