these two fragments of a single tapestry (see also 38.51.2), the unicorn appears to have
date from no earlier than the late nineteenth through twentieth centuries and most have
Harry B. Wehle.
The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor presents a sumptuous mid-nineteenth-century parlor characteristic of affluent homes in the United States. It features furniture by one of the most innovative and virtuosic American cabinetmakers of the period in a room whose architectural elements are from the double parlor of a Classical Revival style villa built around 1850 in Astoria, Queens, for a prosperous businessman named Horace Whittemore (1813–1871).
including Horace’s brothers Albert and Edward, business partner and brother-in-law John B.
against such a reading; one again tends to agree with Radcliffe: “these pieces have
was based on time-honored observances, many rooted in the Bronze Age (3000–1050 B.C
Although the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, believed to have been composed around
references inform us of Roman paintings on wood, ivory, and other materials, works that have
references inform us of Roman paintings on wood, ivory, and other materials, works that have
„Kerry James Marshall: Mastry“ is the largest museum retrospective to date of the work of American artist Kerry James Marshall (born 1955).
figures—defiant assertions of blackness in a medium in which African Americans have
The panels have a woven heading tape, and most also include braided cords that hang
BottleA different type of cut-glass object is represented by a rather sizable number of globular bottles with a slighly tapering neck that ends in a large splayed mouth, and standing on a tapering foot
possibly in a mold—and produced with thick walls, are rather solid and they might have
