decision to part with this painting is nonetheless surprising, even if it does seem to have – her desire to establish a relationship with a fellow collector from whom she may have – "[6] Federico would also have his portrait painted by Titian (ca. 1485/90?
"[6] Federico would also have his portrait painted by Titian (ca. 1485/90?
Harry B. Wehle.
Assistant Conservator Jennifer Schnitker writes about the restoration of the Thomas Appleton pipe organ.
If you play a guitar or another stringed instrument, you may have tuned its strings
Since the acquisition of the Heroes Tapestries, scholars have suggested that they
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.
The Raymond and Beverly Sackler Assyrian Sculpture Court (Gallery 401) showcases sculptures from the Assyrian capital city of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu) in a space designed to evoke their original palace setting.
Ashurnasirpal seems to have been the first Assyrian king to line his palace walls
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
against such a reading; one again tends to agree with Radcliffe: “these pieces 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
In this painting, the Madonna and Child are flanked by Saint Francis to the left, shown in the gray habit of the Franciscan order and holding the cross within his stigmata-marked hand, and Saint Jerome to the right, attired in the red robes of a cardinal, signifying his service to Pope Damasus I (305–384 CE)
by 1834–d. 1849); his son, principe Maffeo Barberini Colonna di Sciarra, Rome (b.
