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
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.
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
retains most of its original paint and gilding and appears today much as it would have
versos, upper left, in black porous point pen):a: GILBERT & GEORGE / HERE 1987 / 1/35b:
Martin’s School of Art in London in 1967, Gilbert and George, as they are now known, have
In 1860, Fuentes is said to have made a highly ornate guitar for the Royal Chamber
Scholars have suggested that the prominent display of pulleys, hanging over the weaverâ
Flat crossbars with holes on the bases of the figures indicate that they may once have
Cool off this summer with an air-conditioned tour of all the water features at The Met Fifth Avenue.
Have you seen all nine?
From the north nave of the former Carmelite church at Boppard-am-Rhein in Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhein-Hunsrück-Kreis), near Koblenz, Germany.; Count Hermann Pückler, Muskau (from 1818) ; [ Frédéric Spitzer Austrian, Paris (from at least 1875–sold 1893)] ; his posthumous sale, Chevallier & Mannheim, Paris (April 17–June 16, 1893, no
Beneath the Virgin are the arms of the bishop of Liège, whose diocese may have donated
