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preservation is a responsibility shared by the many individuals employed at the Museum who have
Textile FragmentThe royal textile factories of al-Andalus were famous throughout the medieval world in a period when luxury textiles constituted one of the most valuable possessions in a ruler’s treasury as well as in the trousseaux of wealthy brides
in bright colors and richly decorated with geometric and epigraphic motifs could have
Tomb Pottery Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1951 Object Number: 51.156.1 [ Nellie B.
The artist (possibly given to Andrieu); Pierre Andrieu (French)(until at least 1864); member of the Orléans family, possibly Philippe d’Orleans (French), comte de Paris, Château d’Eu, Normandy (by 1891-d
. (73.7 × 57.2 cm) Classification: Drawings Credit Line: Gift from the Karen B.
Andrews, 1976 Object Number: 1976.254.6a, b The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
All relics bestowed honor and privileges upon the possessor, and monasteries and cathedrals sought to hold the most prestigious. Some relics were even stolen from one church, only to find a new home in another.
Medieval reliquaries frequently assume the form of caskets (chasses) ( 2002.483.3a,b)
as by Lanini; his estate sale, Christie’s, London, April 8, 1886, no. 235, as by B.
The Artist: Antonio Vivarini was a member of a family documented on the island of Murano (Venice) and Padua from the second half of the fourteenth century. His father, Michele, and the founder of the family, „Vivarinus vitruarius,“ were both glassmakers
1450 Not on view This painting belongs to a series of eight scenes that would have
Although no signs of houses were found [in Wadi Kubbaniya], diverse and sophisticated stone implements for hunting, fishing, and collecting and processing plants were discovered around hearths.
northwest of Aswan in Upper Egypt, some interesting sites of the kind described above have
The Marimion Room was the principal parlor of Marmion, a plantation house built around 1756 by the Fitzhugh family of Virginia. The room’s elaborate painting was executed in the 1770s and is one of the most ambitious decorative schemes to survive from eighteenth-century America.
John may have been the Lewis family’s butler after Billy.
